Resources

Safe Sleep Promising Practices and Literature Review

These two resources can support state and community efforts to eliminate sleep-related infant deaths: a comprehensive literature review and specific examples of promising resources, programs and interventions states can spread and scale to reduce sleep-related infant deaths.

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Safe Sleep FAQ for Child-Care Providers

Millions of babies across the country attend child-care, which makes child-care providers invaluable allies for championing infant safe sleep: Child-care providers can make sure that all babies in their care sleep in a safe environment and they can help share guidelines and recommended practices with the families they serve. These two resources can help empower child-care providers as safe sleep champions. 

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Interactive E-Handout for Safe Sleep Conversations

This interactive E-handout helps families learn about safe sleep practices. Health professionals can sit with families and click through the pages where they’ll find different sleep scenes and environments. A series of prompts and pop-ups show what is and is not safe and inspire learning conversations. Families can also access the handout at home and use it to teach their friends and families about safe sleep.

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How Safe Sleep Savvy Are You?

Physicians, nurses, home visitors and other public health professionals can use this video quiz as an interactive, visual tool to prompt discussions around best-practices for infant sleep.

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Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding Image Gallery

This image gallery was compiled by the initial National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep in 2014-2017. Many people have identified the challenge of finding images for safe sleep on the internet, so the NICHQ-led NAPPSS Improvement and Innovation Network is keeping this page updated with new images as the project continues. 

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