SIDS Awareness Month
Safe Sleep Resources & Tools
Equitable Safe Sleep Strategies and Messaging
Check out a helpful collection of tools and resources from the AAP for pediatricians and healthcare professionals to provide education and guidance to parents and caregivers on infant safe sleep.
NICHQ INitiatives
Our Safe Sleep Work
The use of a health equity lens is imperative in the work of making breastfeeding and chestfeeding a national norm. We’re grateful to have insight from a diverse team of experts on these project-related breastfeeding and safe sleep initiatives.
Publications
Community infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion
A mixed-methods study to improve population-level health outcomes
Though breastfeeding is a protective factor against sudden unexpected infant death, motivations to breastfeed often couple with unsafe infant sleep practices. Racial/ethnic disparities are present in sudden unexpected infant death, accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed, and breastfeeding. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between community-level strategies and associated state-level outcomes for infant safe sleep and breastfeeding.
Findings
We identified two mixed insights: gaps in promotion and outcomes, and persistent disparities between infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion and outcomes. Findings indicate conversational approaches could improve infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion, outcomes, and relative disparities. Community collaboration is needed to address organizational capacity limitations in promoting infant safe sleep and breastfeeding.
Tools to Improve your Practice
Improving Safe Sleep Conversations
Webinar that demonstrates tactics to engage families from different backgrounds in meaningful conversations about safe sleep.
S1E5 Exploring NAPPSS-IIN Project Insights and Future Visions: A Conversation About Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding
We discuss some of NICHQ’s breastfeeding and safe sleep initiatives while highlighting the impact of combining infant safe sleep (ISS) and breastfeeding promotion on the community level.
Centering Community Voices
A webinar on how NAPPSS-IIN shifts to community-driven QI for safe sleep and breastfeeding.
S1E7 Equity Considerations for Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding Messaging
In honor of SIDS Awareness Month, hear the panel discussion from NICHQ’s 8/23 webinar focused on equity in safe sleep and breastfeeding messaging, featuring a number of NICHQ’s community partners.
NICHQ Insights
Reading List for SIDS Awareness Month
At NICHQ, we are committed to making infant safe sleep and breastfeeding the national norm. Check out our insights to learn how you can support this initiative.
Additional Articles & Resources
State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
List of PQCs funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Power of PQCs
Video showing the impact that PQCs have on the communities they serve. Produced by the NNPQC.
PQCs in the News
Articles in news outlets covering state PQCs, their activities, and the people that work in the collaboratives.
Patient Safety Bundles
From the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. PSBs are collections of evidence-informed best practices that address clinically specific conditions in pregnant and postpartum people. The NNPQC helps provide TA and support to PQCs in adopting the core AIM Perinatal Mental Health Bundle.
Perinatal Quality Collaboratives
The CDC’s landing page for PQCs, including helpful infographics, videos, and links to help explain what PQCs are, how they work, and stories, learnings, and publications that have come out of the state PQCs.
Save the Date
Weekly Observances
Five distinct weeks are celebrated during Breastfeeding Awareness Month.
NICHQ News
Stay in the Loop
Get information on observances like Breastfeeding Awareness Month and other NICHQ news delivered directly to your inbox.
Spread the Word
Safe to Sleep® SIDS Awareness Month Toolkit
In October and beyond, infant caregivers and service and healthcare providers can join Safe to Sleep® and its partners to encourage safe infant sleep and help raise awareness about ways to reduce the risk of SIDS by using this SIDS Awareness Month Toolkit.
SIDS Awareness Month Toolkit
Shareable resources from Safe to Sleep®