NEW Free Online Training
Infant Safe Sleep and Family Engagement: A training for North Carolina Professionals to reduce the risk of infant mortality and sleep-related deaths.
Safe Sleep NC’s 45 minute training is for professionals working with families and caregivers.
The training addresses the following three key questions:
- Why safe sleep matters? Key terms and current trends in sleep-related infant deaths.
- What is safe sleep? Review current safe sleep recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
- How to talk with families about making sleep safer for babies? Discuss strategies for engaging with parents and caregivers and identify free resources for additional patient and provider support.
Click HERE to view the training.
Participants will receive 1.0 nursing contact hours upon viewing the entire recorded session and completing the post-evaluation survey.
UNC CMIH is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Contact Megan Canady at megancanady@med.unc.edu if your organization needs further assistance with trainings.
Child care facilities licensed to care for infants 12 months and younger shall require child care administrators and all staff scheduled to work with infants, including volunteers counted in staff/child ratios, meet the following training requirements:
- Complete the ITS-SIDS training within 2 months of assuming responsibilities in the infant room, or within 90 days of assuming responsibility as a child care administrator.
- Complete the ITS-SIDS training again no more than 3 years from their previous ITS-SIDS training.
Family child care home operators licensed to care for infants 12 months and younger must:
- Complete the ITS-SIDS training within 12 months prior to applying for a family child care home license.
- Complete the ITS-SIDS training again no more than 3 years from the completion of previous ITS-SIDS training.
The North Carolina Child Care Health and Safety Resource Center offers a toll free number ( 1-800-367-2229 ) as well as an online form that parents and anyone working in the child health and child care communities can use for more information.
Click Here for More InformationThere is a strong link between SIDS and tobacco exposure prenatally and postpartum. You Quit, Two Quit can provide FREE on-site training on evidence-based tobacco use screening and cessation counseling for your North Carolina practice. They can also provide assistance in integrating tobacco screening and treatment into your clinic’s work flow.
Training topics include:
- Evidence-based, best practice brief counseling intervention – the 5As
- Motivational interviewing techniques
- Up-to-date information on e-cigarettes and other electronic products
- Pharmacotherapy, including during pregnancy and lactation
- Billing and reimbursement, including CPT codes, reimbursement rates, and other FAQs
- Information about QuitlineNC and how to refer women to the service proactively
- How to access and use free tobacco cessation patient education materials
- How to help those who are not ready to quit – harm reduction and the 5Rs
You Quit, Two Quit is approved by the North Carolina Nurses Association as a continuing nursing education activity worth 1.5 CEUs.
Click Here to Request a Training or for More InformationYou can also review the below 45-minute webinar from North Carolina’s Women And Tobacco Coalition for Health (WATCH). This webinar is titled Perinatal Tobacco Use and SIDS/Sleep-Related Infant Death.
Topics include:
- Key terms
- National and state trends regarding SIDS;
- Information about how tobacco exposure during pregnancy and after birth increases the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths;
- The latest safe sleep recommendations;
- Ways to communicate risk-reduction messages about sleep-related causes of infant death to parents and caregivers; and
- Local and national resources available for patient and provider support.
This series of learning modules is designed for a range of providers who interact with families on topics of safe sleep and breastfeeding. The modules by the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (NCEMCH), while it operated the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep (NAPPSS, 2014-2017), are designed to help you understand the Conversations Approach and gain the knowledge and skills needed to implement and promote breastfeeding and safe sleep practices.
There are 7 Modules:
- A New Approach
- How Babies Sleep and Eat
- Understanding Current Recommendations
- Anticipating Reluctance and Refusal
- Respectful Dialogue and Structure of a Conversation
- Creating Plans to Support Family Decisions
- Putting It All Together to Make a Difference
If you would like a training for your staff or for a conference, contact Safe Sleep NC to discuss your options. Safe Sleep NC has very limited funding for in-person trainings, but we are happy to discuss with you how we can work together to tailor something to meet your needs.
Contact Megan Canady for more information: megancanady@med.unc.edu
Until recently, each NC Health Department was required to have a designated person to serve as the SIDS counselor. This role was required to attend an initial training in-person in Raleigh and participate in the annual update webinar. THIS IS NO LONGER REQUIRED, but local health departments may still provide these services if they would like to do so.
In the past SIDS counselors were available at no cost and helped families deal with their loss.
Counselors could:
- Provide support and answer questions
- Collect information about the baby’s health history and death
- Follow-up with the medical examiner’s office
- Help families understand the autopsy report
- Link the family with other local resources
