Training Toolkit
This
toolkit presents selected training curricula, programs, and
resources. Materials in each category are listed beginning
with the most recent item.
Table of Contents |
Training: Risk Reduction and Health Promotion |
Training: Risk Reduction and Health Promotion
SIDS Risk Reduction: A Continuing Education (CE) Activity for Pharmacists. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Facts for NICU Nurses. American Association of SIDS Prevention Physicians. Educational module on SIDS for NICU nurses and other nurses who work with pre-term and low birth weight infants and their families focusing on the causes of SIDS and evidence based best practices that nurses can use to prevent it. CEU credit available through April 27, 2011.
Baby Essentials online program and user's resource kit. (2009). Change for Our Children (New Zealand). Training module to educate family service providers about safe sleep. Includes materials for families and summaries in 20 languages.
Helping Babies, Healing Families: Program Manual & Trainer's Guide. (2009).
Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau,
SUID/SIDS Program.
Manual and accompanying training guide designed to support the staff of local
and state programs to provide comprehensive sudden unexpected infant death/sudden infant death syndrome (SUID/SIDS) risk-reduction and bereavement-program services. The trainer’s
guide, adapted from a publication produced by the National Cancer Institute,
focuses on how to conduct trainings, presentations, and informational sessions
for a variety of audiences.
Reducing the Risk of SIDS in Child Care. (2009). Online training module on creating a safe sleep environment to reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related deaths, for child care providers, health care professionals, and families.
Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Reducing the Risk.
(2008).
First Candle/SIDS Alliance and Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
58-minute video, part of the Nursing Grand Rounds Teleconference
Series at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Educating Parents and Caregivers About Infant Safe Sleep: A Guide for Home Visitors. (2007). Allegheny County Health Department and Pennsylvania Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics. Background information for the visitor, questions to begin conversations about infant safe sleep, suggested responses to parent/caregiver reasons for not following infant safe sleep practices, and illustrations.
Safe Sleep for Infants. (2007). Florida Department of Health. Self-study training module offers training on safe sleep for infants. The module is available as a Powerpoint presentation.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the Child Care Provider: Sample Drill: Emergency Procedures for an Unresponsive Infant. (2007). First Candle/SIDS Alliance and the National SIDS and Infant Death Program Support Center (NSIDPSC). Fact sheet describing how a drill should proceed, emergency procedures, and what to do if an infant dies.
Continuing Education Program on SIDS Risk Reduction: Curriculum for Nurses. (2006) Training module on effectively communicating SIDS risk reduction messages to parents and caregivers. It is available as a booklet or as an online course.
Model
Behavior: The Most Important Modeling Job of
Your Life.
First Candle/SIDS Alliance and the National SIDS and Infant
Death Program Support Center (NSIDPSC).
Web-based training materials for nurses on how to serve as
role models in neonatal intensive care units and well-baby
units. Includes sample policies developed with input from nursing
staff and educators, SIDS researchers, trainers, and other
health professionals. Also includes a poster. Addresses five
key areas: sleep position, bedding/soft materials, crib/bed
sharing and breastfeeding, swaddling/bundling, and tobacco
exposure.
Back
to Sleep Campaign. (2005–2007).
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Web-based health-education materials for parents, grandparents,
and caregivers; a curriculum for nurses; and a resource kit
for African-American outreach.
Baby's
Easy Safe Sleep Training Kit (BESST kit).
(2005).
North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation/ Blue Cross Blue
Shield of North Carolina/CJ Foundation for SIDS.
Educational flip chart and guide that offers important tips
about infant safe sleep and ways to reduce the risk for SIDS.
The main goal of this tool is to assist parents, caregivers,
childcare providers, health professionals, and others in
raising awareness about and reducing the incidence of SIDS.
The kit
includes a tabletop flip chart with 16 illustrations, a training
guide, presentation tips, prop ideas, outreach tips, and
samples of safe sleep materials from the North Carolina Healthy
Start
Foundation. The kit is also available in Spanish. Available
to order online.
Healthy
Child Care America Back to Sleep Campaign.
(2003).
American Academy of Pediatrics.
Web-based training course and materials for health professionals,
child care providers, and others interested in educating
the community about SIDS in child care. Includes the Reducing
the
Risk of SIDS in Child Care Speaker's Kit. Powerpoint presentations
and speaker’s notes are available for download, along
with a sample policy and training exercises on SIDS facts and
eight ways to reduce the risk for SIDS. An evaluation of this
training appears in Pediatrics (2008).
Training. (2002). California SIDS Program. Tips for planning and conducting a successful SIDS training. Includes a training checklist as well as tools and resources for training emergency personnel, public health professionals, child care providers (in English and Spanish), and mortuary professionals, plus a training program in SIDS awareness for para-professionals, professionals and agency staff why serve high risk populations, pregnant women, expectant families, parents of newborns, and other infant caregivers.
Training: Culturally Competent Services
African American Failth Based Bereavement Initiative. (2011). National Center for Cultural Competence and SUID/SIDS Program Support Center at First Candle. Training specifically developed for clergy in the African American Christian faith community to improve supports for families experiencing stillbirth and infant mortality.
Healthy Native Babies Project Workbook and Toolkit. (2010). Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Healthy Native Babies Project Workgroup. A comprehensive SIDS risk-reduction and safe-sleep guide for health professionals, social workers, community organizers, and others working in Native communities. The packet outlines the facts about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), explains how to reduce the risk, provides strategies for reaching Native communities, and presents action steps for sustaining a Healthy Native Babies project.
Think Cultural
Health. (2008).
Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority
Health.
Two Web-based curricula, one for physicians, physician assistants,
and nurse practitioners and one for nurses, with free continuing
medical education credits and continuing education units. Designed
to effectively equip physicians and nurses with cultural and
linguistic competencies, using case studies and interactive
features.
Infusing
Cultural and Linguistic Competence into Health Promotion Training. (2005).
National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC).
Online streaming video (90 min.) designed for individuals or
groups to build knowledge and capacity to infuse principles
and practices of cultural and linguistic competence into health-promotion
training. The video is divided into chapters so that it can
be watched in one viewing or over several training sessions.
The chapters allow viewers to stop at key points for discussion
or small group exercises. Guidelines on using the video for
group training are also provided.
A
Guide to Choosing and Adapting Culturally and Linguistically
Competent Health Promotion Materials. (2003).
National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC).
Guidance on how to ensure that health-promotion materials
reflect principles and practices of cultural and linguistic
competence.
Training for First Responders
See the training section of the NSIDRC First Responders page.
Resources to Support and Enhance Training
Guidelines, Strategies, and Core Competencies
Bereavement Counseling for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Infant Mortality: Core Competencies for the Health Care Professional. (2004). Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs. Offers core competencies that health professionals need to provide appropriate and effective bereavement support. The competencies are nonsectarian and respectful of cultural differences.
Fetal
and Infant Mortality Review: A Guide for Home Interviewers.
(2002).
National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program.
Designed to help prepare the new interviewer for the key
fetal and infant mortality review role of interviewing
grieving mothers.
Wisdom from the Field Podcasts and Other Multimedia Resources
Wisdom
from the Field.
(2009).
National Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy
Loss Resource Center.
Podcasts featuring personal stories from a wide range of
people in the field affected by sudden and unexpected death
in infancy
and childhood, including parents, doctors and nurse practitioners,
researchers, members of the faith-based community, bereavement
counselors, and others.
Multimedia Resources Online. (2009). National Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Resource Center. Audio, video, PowerPoint presentations, and archived webcasts that can be accessed directly online.
Additional Materials
See the A–Z Topics list for additional materials that can be used in training.
Suggested topics:
- Child Care
- First Responders
- Public Awareness Campaigns
- Safe Sleep
- Training Materials
- Also see additional resources on training from the four SUID/SIDS partners
May 2009
