Infant Safe Sleep Campaign

Through a unique and innovative partnership with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, the Healthy Start Coalition of Manatee County, Inc. has implemented a highly effective SIDS/SUID community education and prevention program, the Infant Safe Sleep Campaign. This partnership was launched in 2005, after the Sheriff’s Office’s Infant Death Review Panel found that many of the tragic accidental infant deaths they investigated could have been prevented if parents/caretakers had been equipped with information and tools to ensure a safe environment for their babies.

Since that time, Healthy Start has been working with multiple community organizations and has included the local Sleep Baby Safely Program implemented by the Manatee Early Learning Coalition, Manatee FIMR (Fetal & Infant Mortality Review), Community Action Group (CAG), in conjunction with other community organizations.