The Cardiff Violence Prevention Model provides a way for communities to gain more complete information as to where violence occurs and how to prevent it by forming partnerships between hospitals and law enforcement and others interested in violence prevention. Grady Memorial Hospital and DeKalb County Police Department have created a local Cardiff Model partnership through a CDC Foundation grant funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

To build capacity of community-based veterans serving organizations to test and implement CDC’s veteran suicide prevention strategies.

To strengthen the evidence base for primary prevention of youth- or adult-perpetrated child sexual abuse.

To enable CDC to work with individual countries and regions to quantify the problem of sexual violence against girls and subsequently develop evidence-based policies and programs to protect children and prevent violence.

To co-create a power-building model for community violence prevention, alongside community members, organizations and health departments, this program aims to develop a scalable model using community power-building strategies centered on the voices and experiences of the local people that are most impacted by community violence.

To recognize an outstanding new investigator with 2-10 years of experience working in the field of domestic violence, violence against women or dating violence. Futures Without Violence, CDC and a committee of experts selects an outstanding individual to receive the award every other year beginning 2012. The recipient receives passage to the National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence.