‘‘(A) are primarily focused on providing 
services to students enrolled in kindergarten 
through 12th grade or youth younger than 19; 
and 
‘‘(B) use strategies that are evidence- 
based, culturally competent, trauma-informed, 
and linguistically and developmentally inclusive, 
and have demonstrated effectiveness at pre-
venting or reducing violence among youth at 
highest risk for involvement in gun violence, in-
cluding strategies that— 
‘‘(i) promote community engagement 
that supports healthy development, includ-
ing emphasizing self-esteem and cultural or 
ethnic pride; 
‘‘(ii) promote healing from trauma 
and other adverse childhood experiences 
that increase a young person’s risk for in-
volvement in gun violence; 
‘‘(iii) strengthen the interpersonal and 
emotional skills of youth, such as commu-
nication, problem-solving, empathy, and 
conflict management; 
‘‘(iv) connect youth to mental health 
professionals, counselors, mentors, commu-
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nity leaders, crisis intervention profes-
sionals, community violence interrupters, 
or educators trained in trauma-informed 
care and activities; 
‘‘(v) foster community engagement 
and safe community environments; or 
‘‘(vi) lessen harms of escalating vio-
lence and prevent future risk of violence, 
including gun violence; 
‘‘(2) technical assistance to local educational 
agencies and community-based nonprofit organiza-
tions with respect to the development of programs 
described in paragraph (1); 
‘‘(3) facilitating community partnerships among 
youth, families, schools, local businesses, and agen-
cies with respect to such programs; 
‘‘(4) increasing teacher, school leader, and other 
school personnel access to evidence-based trauma 
support services, social and emotional learning, and 
mental health services through professional develop-
ment; and 
‘‘(5) collecting data in accordance with sub-
section (g). 
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‘‘(c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible for a grant under 
subsection (a), an entity shall be a partnership that in-
cludes— 
‘‘(1) a State educational agency, in coordination 
with 1 or more local educational agencies located in 
a municipality or other local government— 
‘‘(A) that, for not fewer than 2 of the 3 
years preceding the grant application— 
‘‘(i) experienced 35 or more homicides 
per year; 
‘‘(ii) experienced 20 or more homi-
cides per year and had a homicide rate 
that was not less than double the national 
average; 
‘‘(iii) had high rates of violent injury 
or injury recidivism among youth as deter-
mined by the State; or 
‘‘(iv) had a juvenile arrest rate for 
violent crime that was not less than double 
the national average; or 
‘‘(B) that demonstrates a unique and com-
pelling need for additional resources to address 
youth gun violence; and 
‘‘(2) at least 1 community-based nonprofit or-
ganization that serves the youth or families of the 
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youth of the 1 or more local educational agencies re-
ferred to in paragraph (1). 
‘‘(d) GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—The Secretary 
shall ensure that grants under subsection (a) are distrib-
uted equitably among the regions of the United States. 
‘‘(e) DURATION OF AWARDS.—A grant under sub-
section (a) shall be for a period of 5 years, and may be 
renewed by the Secretary. 
‘‘(f) EVALUATION AND MEASURES OF OUTCOMES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) 
DEVELOPMENT
OF
EVALUATION 
PROCESS.—The Secretary, in coordination with 
the Secretary of Education, shall develop a 
process for evaluating activities carried out 
through a grant under this section. Such proc-
ess shall include— 
‘‘(i) the development of guidelines for 
the submission of program data by grant-
ees; 
‘‘(ii) the development of measures of 
outcomes (in accordance with subpara-
graph (B)) to be applied by grantees in 
evaluating programs carried out through a 
grant under this section; and 
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‘‘(iii) the submission of regular re-
ports by grantees concerning the impacts 
of programs carried out through a grant 
under this section. 
‘‘(B) MEASURES OF OUTCOMES.—The Sec-
retary shall develop measures of outcomes to be 
applied by grantees under this section— 
‘‘(i) to evaluate the impacts of pro-
grams carried out through a grant under 
this section, including outcomes related to 
the students, families, and local edu-
cational systems supported under this sec-
tion; and 
‘‘(ii) to disaggregate data on such out-
comes by the subgroups of students listed 
in section 1111(c)(2) of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
‘‘(C) SUBMISSION
OF
DATA.—Not later 
than the end of each of the second and last aca-
demic years covered by the period of a grant 
under this section, the grantee shall submit to 
the Secretary and the Director of the Institute 
of Education Sciences a report that— 
‘‘(i) includes data to evaluate the suc-
cess of the program carried out by the 
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grantee based on whether such program is 
achieving the purposes of the program; and 
‘‘(ii) utilizes the measures of outcomes 
developed under subparagraph (B), includ-
ing high school graduation rates, employ-
ment rates, and rates of enrollment in 
postsecondary education and trade schools, 
in a reasonable manner to demonstrate the 
progress of the program in achieving such 
purposes. 
‘‘(D) EVALUATION
BY
SECRETARY
AND 
THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE OF EDU-
CATION
SCIENCES.—Based on the data sub-
mitted under subparagraph (C), the Secretary 
and the Director of the Institute of Education 
Sciences shall submit to Congress a report at 
least once every three years concerning the re-
sults and impacts of the programs carried out 
with assistance received under this section, in-
cluding recommendations on how to conduct 
gun violence prevention activities with limited 
resources following a co-occurring emergency 
(such as a national public health emergency or 
a natural disaster). 
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‘‘(2) INDEPENDENT
RESEARCHER.—The Sec-
retary shall contract with independent researchers, 
including researchers with expertise in violence pre-
vention programs, to evaluate the performance and 
impacts of selected programs funded through grants 
under this section. Such evaluations shall be made 
publicly available on the internet website of the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention. 
‘‘(g) INFORMATION
AND
EDUCATION.—The Sec-
retary shall disseminate best practices to the public based 
on the findings resulting from programs funded through 
grants under this section. 
‘‘(h) ESEA TERMS DEFINED.—In this section, the 
terms ‘local educational agency’ and ‘State educational 
agency’ have the meanings given such terms, respectively, 
in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965. 
‘‘(i) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
To carry out this section, there is authorized to be 
appropriated $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2025 through 2031. 
‘‘(2) EVALUATION ACTIVITIES.— 
‘‘(A) BY GRANTEES.—To carry out evalua-
tion activities under subsection (f)(1), an eligi-
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ble entity receiving a grant under this section 
shall use not more than 20 percent of the total 
amount received through the grant. 
‘‘(B) 
INDEPENDENT
RESEARCHER.—To 
carry out subsection (f)(2) for a fiscal year, the 
Secretary may reserve not more than 5 percent 
of the funds made available to carry out this 
section for such fiscal year.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Part G of title V of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290hh et seq.), 
as amended by subsection (b), is further amended by strik-
ing the part designation and heading and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘PART G—COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL-BASED 
VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM’’. 
Æ 
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