Center Resources
Partner SIDS/ID
Centers
National SIDS & Infant Death Program Support Center / First Candle
National SIDS & Infant Death Project IMPACT
National Center for Cultural Competence SIDS/ID Project
For more information on maternal and child health topics, visit the MCH Library
Multimedia Resources Online
Multimedia resources — most often the combination of audio, video, graphics, and/or text — are becoming an important source of information in the sudden and unexpected infant/child death and pregnancy loss community.
Below are listed selected materials on SIDS, safe sleep, and related topics that can be accessed directly online.
If you would like to suggest additional resources or inquire about videos for loan or for purchase, please contact the Resource Center.
Table of Contents:
- Podcast Series: Wisdom from the Field
- ASIP-AMCHP SIDS/SUID Research Webinar Series
- PowerPoints and Archived Webcasts
- Video
Podcast Series: Wisdom from the Field
The Resource Center has launched Wisdom from the Field, a podcast series featuring personal stories from a wide range of people in the Sudden, Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Preganancy Loss field, including parents, doctors and nurse practitioners, researchers, members of the faith-based community, bereavement counselors, and others.
- First Candle's 2009 Research and Advocacy Syposium: Multimedia Proceedings (2009). First Candle brought together leading researchers, bereaved family members, health professionals and others to explore current research efforts and strategies for saving infant lives.
The Program Support Center and the Resource Center have collaborated to provide multimedia resources from the symposium.
Vist the symposium page to listen and view the multimedea resources. - Home Visiting and Grief Counseling (2008). Project IMPACT and Resource Center
(21:31 min.) Two Tomorrow's Child/Michigan SIDS bereavement support nurses speak of their experiences providing home visits to grieving families. They discuss common themes that arise for mothers, fathers, extended family and friends after the loss of a pregnancy or the death of an infant
Visit the podcast page to listen to the whole podcast, or annotated excerpts.
ASIP-AMCHP SIDS/SUID Research Webinar Series
- Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID): Research, Success and Challenges (ASIP/AMCHP Webinar Series #1), February 11, 2010.
- New Research Into Sudden Infant Death: Unraveling the Mystery of SIDS (ASIP-AMCHP Webinar Series #2), May 20, 2010
PowerPoint Presentations and Archived Webcasts
- Infant Mortality and Racism Action Learning Collaborative: Community Recommendations For Reducing Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality (2010). Link to blog, presentation, and slides of Webcast conducted by the UIC Maternal and Child Health Program and the UIC Mid-America Public Health Training Center.
- Baby Sleep Safety – Reducing the Risk of SIDS (no date). Unnarrated slide presentation by Chris Towland of Baby Sleep Solution. (2:20min.)
- Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Home Interview: Process and Issues Archive (2006). MCHCOM.com webcast. Introduction by Kathleen Buckley on the FIMR process, and presentation by Jodi Shaefer and Patt Young on basic principles of conducting a home interview following the unexpected death of an infant. Video plus slides plus captioning are available for Mac and Windows; plus slides, transcript, and audio separately.
- Improving Infant Death Investigation Through Doll Re-Enactment. (no date). Video, slides, audio, and transcript of the April 28, 2009 Webcast conducted by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
- Safe Sleep (no date). (23 slides) Annotated PowerPoint presentation by Betty Connal of SIDS Mid-Atlantic.
- Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID): National Developments, Initiatives, Studies, and Opportunities (2009). Video, slides, audio, and transcript of the March 30, 2009 Webcast, organized by Project IMPACT.
- A Toolkit for Reducing Infant Mortality: Standards, Regulatory, and Legislative Strategies (2006). Links to audio/slides, captions/transcript options. (1:30 hr.)
- 24-7 EMS: SIDS and EMS (no date). Paramedic TV and Northwest Infant Survival & SIDS Alliance (5:50 min.)
- Cribs for Kids Instructional Video and Safe Sleep PSA (no date). SIDS of Pennsylvania. DVD on the Cribs for Kids program, 30 sec. public service announcement, and instructions in English and Spanish on how to assemble the Graco Pack and Play. Ordering information.
- Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nation's Babies (2009). Office of Minority Health. This video focuses on the issue of infant mortality in the African-American community. Windows Media Player version (36:19 min.)
- Essential Tummy Time Moves (no date). Pathways Awareness (4.23 min.)
- Hidden Hazards of Placing Babies in Adult Beds (ca. 2002). Consumer Product Safety Commission. (7:32 min.)
- NEW! ICAN TRAINING: Child Death Review Team Overview (no date). A 7-minute overview of the process and function of a child death review team. Both of the following files will take some time to download (7:00 min.) Requires Quicktime.
The following titles are avialable to order at no charge in Video of DVD format: - Child Death Review: A National Perspective - Part 1: A complete mock case review of a fictitious child death case.
- Child Death Review: A National Perspective - Part 2: A complete mock case review of a fictitious child death case.
- Working With Grieving Children: A therapist working with young children helps them confront issues of grief and mourning.
- Infant Safe Sleep (no date). Tomorrow's Child: Michigan SIDS, funded by the CJ Foundation for SIDS (6:20 min.)
- Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into Health Promotion Training (no date). National Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Project at the National Center for Cultural Competence.
- Keep Infants Sleeping Safely (KISS) (2007). Regional Health Alliance, (Calhoun County), Battle Creek, Michigan. English | Spanish. (10 min.) Requires Quicktime.
- Losing Leah -- Don't Let it Happen to You (no date). Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID). Winner of the Media Trust competition, this video promotes safe sleep advice to teenage parents in the United Kingdom. (4:40 min.)
- Newborn Care: Sleeping (no date). March of Dimes. (2:46 min.)
- Researchers Believe Many SIDS Deaths are Preventable (no date). Minnesota Public Radio. (3:54 min.)
- Safe sleep (2010). Consumer Product Safety Commission. (1:04 min.)
- Safe Sleep: It’s Essential (no date). Michigan Department of Human Services. (2:20 min.) Requires RealPlayer.
- Safe Sleep for New Born Babies (no date). Andrea Grace narrates this video. (4:49 min.)
- Safe Sleep for Your Baby (2004). Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (4:18 min.)
- Safe Sleep for Your Baby - Right from the Start (2008). SIDS of Pennsylvania (14 min.) DVD available to order for $20. For hospitals, doctor's offices, health departments and clinics. Ordering information.
- Safe Sleep Saves Lives: Back is Best for Baby's Sleep
and Other Tips
for Parents and Caregivers (2009). First Candle. English | Spanish. (17
min.)
- Shaken Baby Syndrome (no date). Epilepsy Association of Central Florida.
- Shaken Baby Syndrome (no date). Nebraska Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) (2007). Q&A with Pediatrician Dr. Scott Cohen of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Three-part video:
- What is SIDS (58 secs.)
- How to Reduce the Risk (1:42 min.)
- Ages at Risk (16 secs.)
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Reducing the Risk -- Online Training for Nurses (no date). Seattle Children's Hospital and Program Support Center. (58 min.)
