CDC Plans New Tracking for Childhood Trauma Prevention
Published Date: 6/18/2026
Notice
Summary
The CDC wants your thoughts on a plan to collect data that helps stop bad childhood experiences before they happen. This affects groups working to protect kids by improving how they track and prevent these issues. Comments are open until August 17, 2026, and this effort aims to make prevention smarter without adding extra hassle or costs.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Enhanced-Funded Recipients’ Extra Data Duties
Recipients who receive enhanced EfC funding must do additional activities, such as collecting adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) data using syndromic surveillance, implementing ACEs primary prevention locally, and/or linking state and local conditions-for-health data to youth ACEs data.
CDC Will Use Collected Data to Guide Support
CDC will use the information collected from EfC recipients to understand barriers and facilitators, and to inform CDC training and technical assistance, program improvement, and development of future funding opportunities.
EfC Grantees Must Provide Program Data
The CDC will collect data from Essentials for Childhood (EfC) recipients to assess surveillance infrastructure, prevention strategy implementation, and program evaluation. Grantees must submit annual performance reports, interviews, capacity assessments, and surveys as part of this information collection.
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