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Search Results: MCH Organizations

This list of organizations is drawn from the MCH Organizations Database. Contact information is the most recent known to the MCH Digital Library.


Displaying records 1 through 2 (2 total).

Alabama Child Death Review System

Annotation: The Alabama Child Death Review System was created on September 11, 1997 in order to review, evaluate, and prevent cases of unexpected and unexplained child death. ACDRS's mission is to understand how and why children die in Alabama, in order to prevent other child deaths. ACDRS, which includes both state and local child death review teams, focuses on prevention through statistical analysis, education and advocacy efforts, and local community involvement.

Keywords: State agencies, Alabama, Child death review, Infant death, Child death, Infant mortality

SIDS and Kids Australia

Annotation: SIDS and Kids, a nonprofit organization in Australia, is dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood and supporting bereaved families. SIDS and Kids works to find answers for parents by funding and supporting vital research into stillbirth, SIDS and safe sleeping practices. Activities include world class research; evidence based education and bereavement support; and advocacy. Materials include a safe sleep app in Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, and Vietnamese and printed information in Arabic, Assyrian, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese (Chinese), Chin, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, English, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Macedonian, Malay, Mandarin (Chinese), Maori, Nuer, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, SudaneseArabic, Swahili, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Keywords: Advocacy, Australia, Fetal death, Grief, Bereavement counselors, Infant death, Infant mortality, Injury prevention, Research, SIDS

   

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