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The Program Support Center's Infant Mortality Risk Reduction work team has developed three new pieces to help increase child care providers' awareness of SIDS, support them in practicing “safe sleep” techniques and prepare them should an emergency happen in their center or home.  All three pieces are available for you to download and reproduce free of charge.  We do ask that, in using these materials you properly credit the source by:  

• Keeping intact the HRSA/MCHB and First Candle/SIDS Alliance logos and the acknowledgement text block.
• Including an acknowledgement of the First Candle/SIDS Alliance Program Support Center in any publication in which you adapt or excerpt these materials.

1. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the Child Care Provider (PDF)
   A risk reduction/general information brochure (prints on legal size paper) (April 2004)
    

2. Setting Policy on Infant Sleep Position (PDF)
   A fact sheet about developing and communicating to parents rules on how infants are placed for sleep (prints on letter size paper)
    

3. Emergency Procedures for an Unresponsive Infant (PDF)
   An emergency drill fact sheet for child care providers (prints on letter size paper) 

If you have questions regarding the materials please call 800.221.7437 or email hanan.kallash@firstcandle.org. 

TOOLS RELEASED TO HELP REDUCE THE RISK OF SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME

The American Academy of Pediatrics' Healthy Child Care America Back to Sleep Campaign has published three brochures about reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

A Child Care Provider's Guide to Safe Sleep presents data and information about SIDS and safe sleep practices and is available at:
http://www.healthychildcare.org/pdf/SIDSchildcaresafesleep.pdf onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/downloads/SIDSchildcaresafesleep');" .

A Parent's Guide to Safe Sleep includes information about working with child care providers to ensure that safe sleep practices are used both at home and in child care settings. It is available at:
http://www.healthychildcare.org/pdf/SIDSparentsafesleep.pdf onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/downloads/SIDSparentsafesleep');" .

Tummy Time contains information about the importance of allowing infants to spend supervised time lying or playing on their stomachs and is available at:
http://www.healthychildcare.org/pdf/SIDStummytime.pdf onClick="javascript:urchinTracker('/downloads/SIDStummytime');" .