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Featured Resources

• Bibliographies Updated!
  • Bed Sharing, Co-Sleeping
  • Swaddling
• MCH Library's Knowledge Path on Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss
• NEW Podcasts Released:
  SUID: National Developments, Initiatives, Studies, and Opportunities
  Home Visiting and Grief Counseling
  First Candle's 2009 Research and Advocacy Symposium
• Statistics Page Updated!
• Revised! Resource Center edition of Helping Baby Back to Sleep PDF | Order
• Grief and Bereavement Following Pregnancy Loss and 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: Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act of 2009 (S.1445) introduced 7/14/2009. Track the bill status at the Library of Congress's Thomas by searching for the bill name or number. Also see First Candle's Advocacy Alert on this topic.
• Washington Post reports "Rise in Infant Suffocation Renews Debate On Bed-Sharing" (January 26, 2009)
• More Resources..

MCH Alert: Focus on Infant Mortality An electronic newsletter that provides timely reference to research, findings, policy developments, recently released publications, new programs, and initiatives.

July 31, 2009

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• Brief Features Home Visiting Resources

• Promising Practice Series Focuses on Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Addressing Perinatal Death
• Authors Characterize Delivery Indications for Late Preterm Births and Their Potential Impact on Neonatal and Infant Mortality Rates
• Article Assesses Health Professionals' SIDS Knowledge and Willingness to Discuss SIDS with Parents
• Study Incorporates Consumer Perspective into the Healthy Start Program Evaluation

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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