Risk Reduction Education

Risk Reduction Resources (Continued)

Cultural and Linguistic Competence

• Office of Minority Health's National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care.
• NCCC SUID/SIDS Project
• NCCC SUID/SIDS Project - Promising Practices
• National Health Law Program, Language Access
• Tests to determine the reading level of publications:
  • Flesch Kincaid
  • Fry Graph
  • Gunning's Fog Index
  • Smog

Drug Use

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• National Institute on Drug Abuse - Educational materials, further reading, opportunities for research, fellowships and research information.

General

• American Academy of Pediatrics - The Changing Concept of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• American Association of SIDS Prevention Physicians - Taking Your Baby Home from the NICU (PDF brochure)
• CDC - Sudden Unexpected Infant Death SUID) Initiative
• CJ Foundation - Risk reduction resources
• First Candle
• First Candle - Timeline of tips
• Healthychildren.org - Reduce the Risk of SIDS
• NICHD - Back to Sleep campaign
• NSIDRC
• Project IMPACT

Updated December 2010

Developed by the Program Support Center at First Candle with collaborative assistance from the Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Centers.