Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education Grant Program

The Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research and Education Grant Program aims to transform the landscape of gun violence research and education by funding initiatives that address community firearm violence and suicide. This program focuses on partnering with affected communities, integrating healthcare approaches, and providing substantial funding to enhance research capacity and intervention effectiveness. With funding available in two categories, the initiative seeks to promote evidence-based solutions that foster community healing and well-being.

Program Focus
There is an urgent need for better health systems approaches to addressing community gun violence and firearm suicide and minimizing the indelible impact it has on all communities. Such enhanced solutions require stronger evidence on what works in a range of healthcare settings, including hospitals, FQHCs, and other community-based health centers to:
reduce community gun violence or firearm suicideto identify individuals at highest risk of community gun violence or firearm suicide to improve clinical care for survivors.
The Center seeks to meet these needs by broadening the field of research to include more  researchers and organizations that focus explicitly on healthcare approaches to addressing gun violence and work closely with communities affected by gun violence. This Funding Opportunity aims to invest in efforts that advance evidence for healthcare interventions that reduce the incidence and impact of community gun violence and firearm suicide and promote well being and healing where it is needed most.
Funding
Funding is available in two categories:
Category 1: Up to $100,000, distributed over 2 years Build the capacity of organizations, institutions, and/or clinical care settings to conduct research on healthcare approaches to addressing community firearm violence or firearm suicide.Category 2: Up to $300,000, distributed over 2 yearsExpand or initiate new research on evidence-informed healthcare practice or clinical care models that address community firearm violence or firearm suicide.