Team-Based Care Meeting Focuses on Safe Sleep and Conversations with Families

In December, around 50 attendees joined our Team-Based Care meeting focusing on safe sleep. Margo Katz, MA, RIDOH Program Manager for Safe Sleep and Substance-Exposed Newborns, provided an overview of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), including common causes, state data, and evidence-based recommendations for safe sleep and related products.

The team of presenters also helped prepare care teams to have conversations with families about safe sleep. Parent Kiana Cruz shared her story of learning about safe sleep as a new parent, and Maria Camarena, Parents as Teachers program supervisor at Westerly Public Schools, and Wendy Lincoln, Clinical Supervisor for the Healthy Families America program at CCAP both shared some tips for having effective, culturally competent conversations with families about safe sleep.

The slide deck from the presentation is available here and the recording can be viewed here. A selection of bilingual materials to support conversations with families about safe sleep is available here.