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Infant Safe Sleep
In order to protect the lives of infants in Michigan, we need your help. Take the time to understand the safe sleep guidelines and educate your clients, partner, friends and family. Most people think this would never happen to them, but the sad reality is that a baby dies every three days in Michigan and these deaths are overwhelmingly preventable.
Keep Babies Sleeping Safely
- What to Do - Safe Sleep Spaces
- What Not to Do - Unsafe Sleep Spaces
- How Do I Know If It's Safe for Sleep?
- Helping Families Practice Safe Sleep
- Bulletin Board Kits
Print a bulletin board kit to increase awareness about safe sleep, breastfeeding, smoking and vaccines.
- Breastfeeding and Safe Sleep
Resource that covers how breastfeeding reduces a baby’s risk of sleep-related infant death.
- Safe Sleep Resources from the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan
Find tools and resources on safe sleep from the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan.
- Safe Sleep Video Library
Videos on Infant Safe Sleep
- Infant Safe Sleep Communications Toolkit
Toolkit to to incease awareness about safe sleep using the media.
- Additional Resources
- Order Safe Sleep Materials
Online Trainings
- The Power of Your Newborn
The Power of Your Newborn, from the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, is a free, online video course developed by and for Indigenous women caring for newborns. These videos are full of wisdom from traditional teachings and practices, as well as current public health recommendations - all to support you in your parenting journey.
- Infant Safe Sleep for Child Care Providers - Online Training
Effective November 1, 2020, the Infant Safe Sleep for Child Care Providers course will be moving from the courses.mihealth.org Public Learning Management System (LMS) to the MiRegistry LMS. Users who began the course in the courses.mihealth.org LMS between September 1, 2020 and November 1, 2020 will now have to complete it through MiRegistry. Note: Once completed in MiRegistry, the training will appear as VERIFIED on your MiRegistry Training Tab. You will no longer get a certificate of completion.
- Infant Safe Sleep for Professionals Working with Families - Online Training
1.5 Nursing contact hours, 1.5 Social Work clock hours, 1.5 CMEs, and 1.5 Health Educator contact hours are awarded for successful completion of this training. The purpose of this course is to educate health care providers and other professionals about sleep-related infant deaths and how to prevent them. This course is designed for any individual who works with families that have or are expecting infants, such as nurses, social workers, health educators, home visitors, and child welfare workers.
- Infant Safe Sleep: The Basics and Beyond - Online Training
1.0 Nursing contact hour is awarded for successful completion of this training. The purpose of this course is to educate nurses on infant safe sleep and highlights concerns that commonly arise in the hospital setting. This course is designed for nurses caring for infants within hospitals (such as mother/baby and labor and delivery units).
- Helping Families Practice Infant Safe Sleep - Advanced Online Training
1.0 Nursing contact hour, 1.0 Social Work clock hour, 1.0 CME, and 1.0 Health Educator contact hour are awarded for successful completion of this training. The purpose of this course is to educate professionals on how to address the potential challenges that parents and caregivers have with following the safe sleep guidelines and to educate them on techniques for having effective, open and non-judgmental conversations with parents and caregivers around this issue. Note: Anyone taking this training needs to be knowledgeable of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment.
- Reducing the Risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID): Continuing Education Activity for Nurses
1.5 Nursing Contact hours is awarded for completion of this course. This course explains the latest research on SIDS, other sleep-related causes of infant death, and ways to reduce the risks of these types of deaths. This course also outlines how nurses can communicate risk-reduction messages to parents and caregivers in just a few minutes.
Webinars
- Infant Safe Sleep Webinars
View a variety of webinars related to infant safe sleep.
Hospital Requirements and Sample Documents
- Infant Safe Sleep Act - Public Act 122 of 2014
State law that govern hospital requirements related to infant safe sleep practices and education for new parents.
- Sample Acknowledgment Form
- Sample Safe Sleep Policy
- Infant Safe Sleep Statewide Hospital Training Program
Child Care Provider Requirements and Resources
- Infant Safe Sleep for Child Care Providers - Online Training
Effective November 1, 2020, the Infant Safe Sleep for Child Care Providers course will be moving from the courses.mihealth.org Public Learning Management System (LMS) to the MiRegistry LMS. Users who began the course in the courses.mihealth.org LMS between September 1, 2020 and November 1, 2020 will now have to complete it through MiRegistry. Note: Once completed in MiRegistry, the training will appear as VERIFIED on your MiRegistry Training Tab. You will no longer get a certificate of completion.
- Frequently Asked Questions on Licensing Rules Related to Infant Safe Sleep
- Infant Safe Sleep Child Care Rules - BCAL PUB-780
First Responder Resources
- DOSE - Direct On Scene Education Information and resources for first responders on how to identify and remove hazards from an infant's sleep space while on scene during emergency and non-emergency 911 calls.
- Learn More About DOSE in Michigan