Resources
Campaigns
SIDS Awareness Month
SIDS Awareness Month This October, join NICHQ in recognizing SIDS Awareness Month. Help us spread the word about the importance of creating safe sleep environments to help reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths. Safe Sleep Resources & Tools Equitable Safe Sleep Strategies and Messaging Health professionals can help empower families to…
Publications
Community infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion and population level-outcomes: A mixed methods study
Study on community-level strategies and state-level outcomes for infant safe sleep & breastfeeding.
Publications
Exploring a Framework for Early Childhood Systems Maturity
A framework of EC systems development was observed from communities participating in the ECCS CoIIN.
Downloadable Content
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month Toolkit
A sharable collection of social media posts and graphics to raise awareness about infant mortality.
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Safe Infant Sleep Infographic for Child-care Providers
This helpful infographic can empower child-care providers as safe sleep champions.
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Safe Infant Sleep and Breastfeeding Myths and Facts
Access documents to guide healthcare provider conversations about safe infant sleep & breastfeeding
Webinars
Reducing Preterm Birth
Webinar on data collected as part of IM CoIIN to improve birth outcomes and decrease infant morality rates.
Webinars
Social Determinants of Grief
This webinar will offer insight on how some women of color deal with compounded loss and trauma.
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Safe Sleep Promising Practices and Literature Review
These two resources can support state and community efforts to eliminate sleep-related infant deaths.
Publications
Using Infant Mortality Data to Improve Maternal and Child Health Programs: An Application of Statistical Process Control Techniques for Rare Events
IMR in the US: SPC charts for rare events reveal special cause variations in Kansas and Alaska.