CRIBS FOR KIDS INC

Education and public awareness- education topics are designed to reduce infant deaths and reduce the risks associated with sids and other preventable sleep-related infant deaths and promote safe sleep habits and infant health, safety and survival. Education is directed to: first responders, emt's, paramedics, firefighters, police, emergency room personnel, physicians, nursing schools, child welfare professionals, high school health classes, teen parents, hospital nurses, social workers, childcare providers, health occupations teachers, university students, department of human services supervisors and the general public including parents and grandparents. See schedule o for additional program accomplishments. Provided education to all nursing staff and social work staff in the newborn nursery, post partum and nicu nursery for all birthing hospitals in allegheny county, as well as for nurses and social workers at children's hospital of pittsburgh and statewide and national nursing conferences. In 2024 3,700 professionals and individuals in the general public were educated through our webinars, conference presentations, and new child welfare trainings. The cribs for kids swpa hospital program expanded to 9 hospitals, including all 7 birthing hospitals, along with the children's home. Hospitals provide safe sleep training to their healthcare team members who in turn model safe sleep care and provide safe sleep education to their parents and caregivers. If it is determined that the mother is in need of a safe sleeping environment for her infant she leaves the hospital with one of our portable cribs, crib sheets and additional educational materials. We continue to support safe sleep efforts championed by like-minded county agencies.