“October is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month. A safe sleep environment can help reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related causes of infant death, like suffocation. To help raise awareness about safe infant sleep, the Safe to Sleep® campaign developed the SIDS Awareness Month Toolkit, which offers guidance and resources for organizations to plan their SIDS Awareness Month activities, including:

• Sample social media posts, emails, and language to handle unsafe sleep images
• A before-you-post checklist, including guidance to caregivers for taking their #SafeSleepSnap photos
• Weekly themes
• Graphics and photos
• Flyers with and without placeholders for logos

The Safe to Sleep® campaign provides a number of other resources (many of which can be ordered for free) to help with education and outreach efforts, including:

• An Interactive Safe Sleep Environment Tool caregivers can explore to help them learn how to create a safe sleep environment for baby in the home.
• Videos, such as Safe Sleep for Your Baby, grandparent videos, and Breastfeed Your Baby to Reduce the Risk of SIDS (with an accompanying handout that helps explain the information in the video).
• Fact sheets, such as What Does a Safe Sleep Environment Look Like? and other downloadable materials for caregivers, including handouts, brochures, and door hangers.
• The Healthy Native Babies Project toolkit and guides, which includes videos, handouts, and training for the American Indian/Alaska Native communities.

The American Academy of Pediatrics also provides information on infant sleep and recommendations for caregivers, including How to Keep Your Sleeping Baby Safe, a checklist of items for making a baby’s room safe, why “back is best” for an infant’s sleep position, and more.”

USDA WIC Work Resource System / US department of agriculture (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month | WIC Works Resource System)