The City Alders voted Oct. 23 to approve applying for and accepting a $100,000 grant from the Kaiser Renee Center aimed at funding gun-violence research and education.

Speaker 1, reporting for the Health and Human Services Committee, said the committee met Oct. 23 and “voted favorably recommend the approval of this application to apply for and accept the Kaiser Renee Center for gun violence research and education grant in the amount of $100,000.” The grant will support researchers and community-based organizations working on health-focused approaches to addressing gun violence, the speaker said.

“The overarching goal of this funding opportunity is to support researchers and organizations investigating health focused approaches to addressing gun violence,” Speaker 1 said, noting an intended partnership with Yale New Haven Hospital and the city’s Department of Community Resilience, Office of Violence Prevention.

According to the committee report, the funding would allow the city and its partners to continue collaborative work with community-based organizations to take a public-health approach—alongside criminal violence intervention—aimed at reducing gun violence in affected communities. The council approved the application and acceptance by voice vote after the committee recommendation.

No implementation timeline or grant award conditions were provided in the meeting record. Next steps are administrative: staff will submit the application and, if awarded, return with documents required to accept the funds and implement grant-funded programs.