Minnesota Funding Priorities

Key points

The CDC Injury Center prioritizes funding for the prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), overdose, and suicide. This page shows how funds were appropriated in the state of Minnesota in FY23.

State of Minnesota

ACEs prevention funding - Minnesota

ACEs are preventable, potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years). Examples include neglect, experiencing or witnessing violence, or having a family member attempt or die by suicide.

  • 58% of adults reported at least one ACE in Minnesota in 2011A1
  • 13.2% of adults reported experiencing four or more ACEs in Minnesota in 2011A1

Total ACEs prevention funding in Minnesota‎

CDC appropriated $485,000 for ACEs prevention activities in the state of Minnesota in FY23.

ACE prevention programs

Keep Reading: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Funding

Examples of how Minnesota is working to prevent ACEs

Surveillance activities

The Minnesota Department of Health is adding questions about experiencing ACEs to the Minnesota YRBS to provide representative state-wide estimates of ACEs for Minnesota public high school students. They are also utilizing data from the Minnesota Student Health Survey to look at ACEs indicators, and risk and protective factors among youth in communities statewide.

Prevention strategies and approaches

The Minnesota Department of Health is promoting Social Norms that protect against violence and adversity through a public education campaign on ACEs and specifically targeted messaging for indigenous communities. They are also ensuring a strong start for children by creating ACEs education modules focused on a two-generation approach for early home visitation providers.

Other support for ACEs in Minnesota

Beyond the ACEs appropriation, CDC supports several initiatives, research, and partnerships to build state and tribal surveillance infrastructure and enhance ACEs prevention and mitigation.

In Minnesota, some of those other initiatives include:

Overdose prevention funding - Minnesota

There were 107,968 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2022 (34.6 deaths per 100,000 standard population), a 1.2% increase from 2021.2

  • There were 1,384 overdose deaths in Minnesota in 20223
  • There were 24.8 overdose deaths per 100,000 people (age-adjusted) in Minnesota in 20223

Total overdose prevention funding in Minnesota‎

CDC appropriated $4,287,524 for overdose prevention activities in the state of Minnesota in FY23.

Overdose prevention programs

  • Public Health and Public Safety
    • Overdose Response Strategy: $87,600*

*average award amount

Keep Reading: Overdose Prevention Funding

Examples of how Minnesota is working to prevent overdose

Tribal naloxone distribution and education

The Minnesota Department of Health learned of a naloxone shortage following a cluster of overdose deaths on tribal reservations. The state's Overdose Response Strategy Team developed a plan, in partnership with naloxone coordinators, to equip tribal law enforcement and first responders with lifesaving naloxone and informed all 11 tribal police chiefs on how to obtain free naloxone.

Naloxone finder map for the public

Minnesota developed a publicly available naloxone resource map and knowthedangers.com, website application to increase awareness of naloxone availability in the state.

Overdose awareness campaign for young adults

Minnesota used overdose data to develop and launch its "Counterfeit Pill Awareness" campaign for people ages 15–34 at high risk of overdose. The campaign has been viewed over 2.2 million times, including 14,000 visits to the campaign's "Know the Dangers" resource website.

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  1. ACE statistics are reported by U.S. adults and include exposure to eight types of ACEs: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, witnessing intimate partner violence, household substance abuse, household mental illness, parental separation or divorce, and incarcerated household member.
  1. Swedo EA, Aslam MV, Dahlberg LL, Niolon PH, Simon TR, Guinn AS, Mercy JA. Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 2011-2020. MMWR.
  2. Spencer MR, Miniño AM, Warner M. Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 2001–2021. NCHS Data Brief, no 457. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2022. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:122556
  3. NVSS – Drug Overdose Deaths