The Center for Youth Equity is a culturally responsive youth violence prevention research center embedded within the ongoing community partnerships and existing infrastructure of the Violence Prevention Institute of Tulane University to build and strengthen the network for youth violence prevention in New Orleans and across the Gulf South. Its activities are in is a partnership with the City of New Orleans Office of Gun Violence Prevention, the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board, and University Medical Center. With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CYE is the first CDC-funded Prevention Research Center in the Gulf South explicitly focused on youth violence prevention and one of only five in the United States.