FORECAST · COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program for States
- Expected deadline
- Not stated
- Who can apply
- Anyone eligible under the notice (unrestricted)
- Award range
- $650,000 to $1.2 million
- Expected awards
- 26
- Total program funding
- $118 million
- Your own money required
- No cost sharing or matching required
- Opportunity number
- CDC-RFA-CE-27-0024
- Posted
- Jul 27, 2026
- Assistance listing
- 93.136
More on who can apply
The NOFO award floor is $650,000. The award ceiling is $1,200,000. CDC will consider applications less than $650,000 or more than $1,200,000 nonresponsive. They will receive no further review. Funding level and number of recipients will be based on availability of funds. Eligible applications must include the following to be responsive: 1. 1 Letter of Commitment (LOC) from state or territorial health department leadership, on official letterhead, endorsing the proposed activities and confirming the department's ability to carry them out.2. 1 Letter of Support (LOS) from the jurisdiction's suic
What it funds
This forecast is for CDC's Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program for States, a cooperative agreement intended to support implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention in the United States. Funded recipients will focus on one or more Focus Prevention Areas (FPAs), groups or settings identified through available data as experiencing a significant suicide burden, higher suicide morbidity or mortality rates or emerging suicide-related trends. Examples may include veterans, people living in rural areas, youth, older adults, men, and members of occupational groups at elevated risk, such as construction, agriculture and public safety workers.Recipients will use timely and relevant data to identify FPAs, understand contributors to suicide and suicidal behavior, monitor emerging trends, and guide prevention planning and response. Recipients will also assess existing suicide prevention programs and gaps in their jurisdiction, strengthen and coordinate multi-sector partnerships, select and implement complementary prevention strategies and approaches with the best available evidence from CDC's Suicide Prevention Resource for Action and communicate programmatic and surveillance findings, progress, successes and lessons learned to partners and other key audiences.The comprehensive approach is expected to include partnership development, data use, an asset and gap inventory, implementation of evidence-informed strategies or approaches, evaluation and communication activities. Recipients will evaluate their approach with a focus on continuous quality improvement, sustainability and measurable outcomes. Key outcomes include increased partner engagement, increased use of surveillance data for decision-making, improved coordination of com…
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