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2025 Grant Awards: Preventing, Treating, and Healing Firearm-Related Harms Through Healthcare
The 2025 grant awards emphasize healthcare practice and clinical care models grounded in the realities of healthcare and community settings—pairing prevention, timely intervention, and long-term recovery with community-informed insight and leadership. Read more on the 2025 grant process
American Academy of Pediatrics will ensure evidence-based interventions to enhance firearm safety and prevent firearm suicide are accessible and relevant for the communities most in need.
- Partner organization: Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health (JHCIH)
Hartford Hospital will develop a data collection system and evaluate outcomes of the hospital’s violence intervention program to generate insights that strengthen the firearm violence prevention efforts of healthcare systems.
- Partner organizations: Harriott Home Health Services, ROCA Hartford
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute will enhance and extend clinical recovery support for survivors of firearm violence by establishing long-term connections with fellow survivor peer mentors. This project will create a survivor mentorship curriculum, implement it, and evaluate its impact on both mentor and mentee health outcomes.
- Partner organizations: Empower Therapeutic Support Services, Inc., Wellspring Second Chance Center
Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center will support frontline workers, a critical workforce that liaises between communities and hospitals to prevent and stop violence. This research project will provide new data to help hospital-based violence intervention programs identify, train, support, and retain frontline workers.
- Partner organization: Arise & Go
Moses/Weitzman Health System will shape how primary care can prevent firearm violence through a new risk screening tool and closed referral system model. This project will help connect patients identified as at-risk to programs that can help them, such as behavioral health, social services, and community violence intervention programs.
University of Pittsburgh will strengthen the pathway of emergency department patients toward healing and health. The project aims to examine how law enforcement presence in emergency departments influences patients’ engagement in violence prevention programs, and to develop recommendations for healthcare systems to improve patients’ engagement with healing opportunities.
- Partner organizations: Duke University, The CommUnity Peace Program (Pittsburgh), The University of Colorado
Urban Cities Healing Strategies will create a replicable curriculum for clinics and community health centers to integrate successful, community-led, well-grounded healing models into firearm injury prevention and survivor support programs.
- Partner organization: Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists