NC-FASTER Reports

The CDC’s Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms (FASTER) program provided funding to 10 states, including North Carolina from September 2020 through August 2023. NC-FASTER was a collaboration between the NC Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Injury Prevention Research Center, and the Carolina Center for Health Informatics in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

NC-FASTER helps address important gaps in timely data availability for nonfatal firearm injuries. Timely reporting at state and local levels through FASTER allows states and communities to detect surges in violence, understand trends in firearm injuries by certain demographic characteristics, and facilitate rapid and focused public health prevention and response. Although the funding has ended for this project, the NC Division of Public Health continues to release quarterly fact sheets with provisional data on nonfatal firearm injury related emergency department visits to inform the work of prevention and response partners across the state.

For additional information not included in these reports, please contact the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch, NC Division of Public Health at InjuryData@dhhs.nc.gov.

Previous quarterly and annual firearm-related reports are available in the Fact Sheets & Infographics Archive and the Reports Archive.

Quarterly Reports