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.

Safe sleep collaborations - via our national public safety initiative, we collaborate with 27 agencies that include police, firefighters, paramedics, and emts, medical examiners, and coroners. There are 533 certified hospitals across 46 states, along with 4 military hospitals, 2 canadian hospitals, and 1 in israel. This program, its training, and education reaches over 820,000 births annually and nearly 20,000 unduplicated nicu admissions.

Safe sleep ambassador outreach program - this program formally educates participants including social workers, caseworkers, nurses, students and others from diverse backgrounds to take the infant safe sleep message to their friends, family and communities based on the premise "each one, teach one", and to teach at least three other persons about safe sleep. This program encourages participants to consider the infant safe sleep message as part of their personal as well as professional lives to share this life-saving information. In 2024 22,400 persons were trained as safe sleep ambassadors and received certificates and buttons to show their commitment to teach others.