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.
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Podcast Series 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. |
See all podcasts or click on the links below:
- First Candle's 2009 Research and Advocacy Syposium: Multimedia Proceedings (2009). The Program Support Center and the Resource Center have collaborated to provide the following multimedia resources from the symposium:
- Home Visiting and Grief Counseling (2008). Project IMPACT and Resource Center (21:31 min.) Two Tomorrow's Child/Michigan SIDS bereavement support nurses speak about bereavement support and grief counseling from those who work on the front lines.
- Family Perspectives: Grief, Support, and Advice
- Perinatal Grief Support for Families: The Role of Clergy, Congregation, and Community
- Peer Support Programs
- Risk Reduction: Kick Counting and Individualizing Risk
PowerPoint Presentations and Archived Webcasts
- 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 MACs 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 SIDS Foundation of Washington (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). U.S. CPSC. Acting Chairman Thomas Moore. (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: 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.
- 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.)
