Welcome to the Resource Center Web site at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University. Visit often for new resources.

New Resources

• Child Care and SIDS
• Topical Bibliographies: SIDS in the Community: African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic; Smoking; Air Pollution; Fetal Movement Monitoring
• Helping Babies, Healing Families: Program Manual and Trainer's Guide - NOW ONLINE!
• MCH Library's Knowledge Path on Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss
• The National Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Consortium is now on Twitter. Visit: Resource Center's Twitter Page | First Candle's Twitter Page

Featured Resources

• NEW Podcasts Released:
  SUID: National Developments, Initiatives, Studies, and Opportunities
  Home Visiting and Grief Counseling
  First Candle's 2009 Research and Advocacy Symposium
• Revised! Resource Center edition of Helping Baby Back to Sleep PDF | Order
• Grief and Bereavement Following Pregnancy Loss, Perinatal and Infant Death bibliography
• The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issues new Guidelines on Managing Stillbirths
• New! Spanish Materials based on American Academy of Pediatrics publications
• Project IMPACT's State SIDS Contacts and Information
• First Candle Member Organizations
• First Candle Grief Resources: Local Support
• The Program Support Center's SIDS/ID Program Manual & Trainer's Guide
• Mayo Clinic's Understanding Miscarriage guide

IN THE NEWS:

• A Wonderful Mystery: Black infant mortality has plummeted in one Wisconsin county. Why?
• Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act of 2009 (S.1445). Track the bill status at the Library of Congress's Thomas (search for the bill name or number). Also see First Candle's Advocacy Alert on this topic.
• More Resources..

November 25, 2009

• Bibliographies Feature Articles on Fetal Movement Monitoring and on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Air Pollution, Race and Ethnicity, and Smoking
• Brief Compares U.S. and European Infant Mortality Rates
• Authors Outline Strategies to Improve Care in the Emergency Department for Women with Pregnancy Loss
• Article Investigates Increase in Accidental Asphyxia Deaths in Infancy
  While Cosleeping in the State of Maryland

Multimedia Training

Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into Health Promotion Training

NCCC's SIDS/ID Project has developed a video to help health promotion trainers assure that their approaches with diverse populations address cultural and language in an effective, appropriate, and respectful manner.

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Excerpts from "In Their Own Voices"

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