Michigan State University's Institute for Health Care Studies, in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Community Health, Tomorrow's Child, and the Michigan Public Health Institute has developed a free on-line Infant Safe Sleep Course to provide individuals caring for pregnant women and infants and their caregivers with education strategies and interventions to promote a consistent safe sleep environment. The training is available to anyone who is interested.  For nurses, 0.5 Nursing CEUs will be awarded for successful completion of the course.  Take the On-Line Infant Safe Sleep Course today!

US Infant Mortality Trends Attributable to Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed From 1984 Through 2004: Are Rates Increasing? 

This article was issued in Pediatrics in 2009. The authors explored the trends and characteristics of accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed, a sub-group of sudden, unexpected infant deaths. View the article here. 

American Academy of Pediatrics
Policy Statement 

The American Academy of Pediatrics released a Policy Statement entitled "The Changing Concept of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Diagnostic Coding Shifts, Controversies Regarding the Sleeping Environment, and New Variables to Consider in Reducing Risk. View the Policy Statement here.

Michigan Department of Community Health
2004 Safe Sleep Work Group 

The Safe Sleep Work Group of the Michigan Department of Community Health released a report on Infant Safe Sleep. View the Infant Safe Sleep report here.

This site was developed in collaboration with the Department of Community Health, the Department of Human Services, Department of Education, Michigan Public Health Institute, and Tomorrow's Child.