‘‘SEC. 399OO–13. UNIVERSITY/SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 
VIOLENCE PREVENTION GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall, under the 
Public Health Violence Prevention Program, carry out the 
University/School of Public Health Violence Prevention 
Grants Program under which the Director shall award 
competitive grants to public or private university schools 
of public health to fund faculty, research, trials, and staff 
to— 
‘‘(1) support the development of courses on vio-
lence as a health issue; 
‘‘(2) research and evaluate health-related vio-
lence interventions; 
‘‘(3) provide coordination for a network of high-
er education institutions to support local and re-
gional violence prevention efforts that promote resil-
ience; and 
‘‘(4) develop and offer certifications for violence 
prevention coordinators. 
‘‘(b) EXCLUSIONS.—A grant awarded under sub-
section (a) may not be used for construction of classroom 
space or other permanent infrastructure. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–14. CRIMINAL JUSTICE VIOLENCE PREVEN-
TION GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall, under the 
Public Health Violence Prevention Program, carry out the 
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Criminal Justice Violence Prevention Grants Program 
under which the Director shall award competitive grants 
to local criminal justice agencies working to improve law 
enforcement at the local level to support innovative joint 
health-criminal justice efforts to work together on violence 
as a health issue. 
‘‘(b) PERMISSIVE USES.—A grant awarded under 
this section may be used to support officer training, inter-
vention specialists, case workers, and strategies that em-
ploy health alternatives to arrest. 
‘‘(c) EXCLUSIONS.—A grant awarded under this sec-
tion may not be used to hire additional officers or supple-
ment existing salaries. 
‘‘(d) ELIGIBLE APPLICATIONS.—An application sub-
mitted for a grant under this section shall contain a pro-
posal submitted jointly by at least one health agency and 
one criminal justice or law enforcement agency, which will 
jointly be involved with carrying out the proposal. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–15. SCHOOL VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND 
TRAUMA MITIGATION GRANTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall, under the 
Public Health Violence Prevention Program, carry out the 
School Violence Prevention and Trauma Mitigation 
Grants Program under which the Director shall award 
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competitive grants to primary and secondary public school 
districts for the following: 
‘‘(1) The development and implementation of 
programs to promote pro-social norms, non-violent 
conflict resolution, and social skills among students 
for positive school climate while eliminating zero tol-
erance policies and reducing out of school time. 
‘‘(2) The integration of comprehensive school- 
based mental health services. 
‘‘(b) PRIORITIZATION.—A district receiving a grant 
under this section shall prioritize areas with the highest 
rates of violence. 
‘‘(c) PERMISSIBLE USES.—A grant awarded under 
this section may be used for mental health services, educa-
tor training, curriculum development, and violence inter-
ventionists in schools. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–16. STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT VIOLENCE 
PREVENTION GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Public Health Vio-
lence Prevention Program, carry out the State Health De-
partment Violence Prevention Grants Program under 
which the Director shall award competitive grants to up 
to 30 statewide health departments to invest in coordi-
nating multiple communities served by the department in-
volved and local health departments implementing health 
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approaches to violence prevention, including alternatives 
to incarceration, community healing practices, and resil-
ient communities.’’. 
SEC. 5. PRIVATE HEALTH CARE SECTOR VIOLENCE PRE-
VENTION PROGRAM. 
Part W of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(241 et seq.), as added by section 3 and amended by sec-
tion 4, is further amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subpart: 
‘‘Subpart III—Private Health Care Sector Violence 
Prevention Program 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–21. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM AND GEN-
ERAL PROVISIONS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish 
a Private Health Care Sector Violence Prevention Pro-
gram under which the Director shall establish each of the 
grant programs under this subpart. 
‘‘(b) USE
OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded under a 
grant program under this subpart shall be used entirely 
for the deployment of comprehensive health-focused re-
sponses to violence and the prevention of violence. 
‘‘(c) COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAMS.—Grants shall 
be awarded under a grant program under this subpart on 
a competitive basis, based on the level of need of the area 
which would be served by the project proposed in the ap-
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plication for the grant, the project design, the capacity of 
the applicant to implement the project, as well as the plan 
proposed in the application to evaluate the outcomes of 
the project. 
‘‘(d) ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT.—Each recipi-
ent of a grant awarded under a grant program under this 
subpart shall be required as a condition of receipt of such 
grant to submit an annual performance report, with re-
spect to each year for which the grant is awarded to such 
recipient, detailing how the funds under such grant were 
used and progress made during the applicable funding pe-
riod under the grant. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this subpart, for each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2023, there are authorized to be ap-
propriated, in addition to any amounts otherwise author-
ized to be appropriated or made available to the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, $350,000,000. Of the 
amount appropriated pursuant to the previous sentence 
for a fiscal year— 
‘‘(1) 15 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–22; 
‘‘(2) 35 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–23; 
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‘‘(3) 7 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–24; 
‘‘(4) 28 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–25; and 
‘‘(5) 15 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–26. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–22. HOSPITAL-BASED VIOLENCE PREVENTION 
GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Private Health Care 
Sector Violence Prevention Program, carry out the Hos-
pital-Based Violence Prevention Grants Program under 
which the Director shall award competitive grants to pri-
vate and public hospitals to implement new programs or 
enhance existing programs for the following purposes: 
‘‘(1) To implement or have in place violence 
intervention programs in coordination with existing 
violence prevention initiatives, including patient 
screenings. 
‘‘(2) To provide for incentives to include vio-
lence and other determinants of health in health as-
sessments and community needs assessments in co-
ordination with local health departments. 
‘‘(3) To provide for the development of and con-
tribution to city-wide or metropolitan area health 
data collection systems. 
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‘‘SEC. 399OO–23. BEHAVIORAL HEALTH VIOLENCE PREVEN-
TION GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Private Health Care 
Sector Violence Prevention Program, carry out the Behav-
ioral Health Violence Prevention Grants Program under 
which the Director shall award competitive grants to be-
havioral health providers for the following: 
‘‘(1) Development and implementation of trau-
ma informed protocols and practices. 
‘‘(2) Training and programming for non-clinical 
peer counselors. 
‘‘(3) Behavioral health training for police, 
schools, and other community sectors. 
‘‘(4) Support for community level approaches, 
including trauma interventions such as community 
healing that promote individual and system resil-
ience. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–24. PRIMARY CARE VIOLENCE PREVENTION 
GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Private Health Care 
Sector Violence Prevention Program, carry out the Pri-
mary Care Violence Prevention Grants Program under 
which the Director shall award competitive grants to pub-
lic and private primary care providers for innovative ef-
forts to address the following: 
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‘‘(1) Development and implementation of efforts 
to— 
‘‘(A) address violence and trauma among 
the patients of the provider involved and the 
community in which such provider is located; 
and 
‘‘(B) coordinate with existing violence pre-
vention efforts. 
‘‘(2) Facilitation of connections between pri-
mary care and behavioral health services. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–25. COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS VIOLENCE 
PREVENTION GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Private Health Care 
Sector Violence Prevention Program, carry out the Com-
munity Connections Violence Prevention Grants Program 
under which the Director shall award competitive grants 
to community-based organizations for training and imple-
mentation of trauma-informed services, including— 
‘‘(1) training and mobilizing communities im-
pacted by violence with skills in trauma-informed 
services at the individual and community level; 
‘‘(2) developing referral networks to reduce ex-
posure to trauma and increase resources for those 
exposed; and 
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‘‘(3) developing a means through which individ-
uals may enter into heath care and violence preven-
tion roles. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–26. ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS VIOLENCE 
PREVENTION GRANTS. 
‘‘The Director shall, under the Private Health Care 
Sector Violence Prevention Program, carry out the Aca-
demic Medical Centers Violence Prevention Grants Pro-
gram under which the Director shall award competitive 
grants to academic medical centers to— 
‘‘(1) facilitate the development of curriculum on 
community-based violence prevention and interven-
tion and on violence as a health issue generally; and 
‘‘(2) prepare students studying to become 
health care providers with a framework for their role 
in violence prevention through the use of trauma-in-
formed care trainings and evaluations of health care 
services, among other appropriate measures.’’. 
SEC. 6. NATIONAL HEALTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION PRO-
GRAM. 
Part W of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(241 et seq.), as added by section 3 and amended by sec-
tions 4 and 5, is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new subpart: 
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‘‘Subpart IV—National Health Violence Prevention 
Program 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–31. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM AND GEN-
ERAL PROVISIONS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish 
a National Health Violence Prevention Program under 
which the Director shall oversee each of the offices and 
programs under this subpart. 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REPORT.—Each Office 
or Board established under this part shall submit to the 
head of the agency involved and Congress an annual per-
formance report detailing how funds appropriated to the 
Office pursuant to subsection (c) during the applicable 
funding period were used. 
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
purposes of carrying out this subpart, for each of fiscal 
years 2018 through 2023, there are authorized to be ap-
propriated, in addition to any amounts otherwise author-
ized to be appropriated or made available to the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, $100,000,000. Of the 
amount appropriated pursuant to the previous sentence 
for a fiscal year— 
‘‘(1) 15 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–32; 
‘‘(2) 15 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–33; 
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‘‘(3) 20 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–34; 
‘‘(4) 20 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–35; and 
‘‘(5) 30 percent shall be made available to carry 
out section 399OO–36. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–32. OFFICE OF APPLIED VIOLENCE PREVEN-
TION RESEARCH. 
‘‘There is established the Office of Applied Violence 
Prevention Research under the National Health Violence 
Prevention Program within the Office of Noncommu-
nicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, and Environmental 
Health to generate knowledge about violence prevention 
by investing in research institutions annually and funding 
research to focus on violence as a health issue. 
‘‘SEC. 399OO–33. NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD ON VIOLENCE 
PREVENTION UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH 
VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall establish a 
National Advisory Board on Violence Prevention under 
the National Health Violence Prevention Program within 
the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Violence, Injury, 
and Environmental Health to identify public policies that 
prevent violence. 
‘‘(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
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