About the Coalition
Purpose
The coalition facilitates a coordinated approach to promoting infant safe sleep across Oregon.
Oregon Safe Sleep Coalition Charter (coming soon)
Goals
Improve infant safe sleep practices.
Decrease sleep-related infant deaths.
Eliminate the inequities in sleep-related deaths for Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native infants.
If you are interested in joining the coalition, reach out to: fchsection.mailbox@odhsoha.oregon.gov
Coalition Meeting Notes/Archive (coming soon)
Safe Sleep Workgroup Report and Recommendations
Raise Up Oregon: A Statewide Early Learning System Plan identified prevention of sleep-related infant deaths as a priority for Oregon’s early learning system. The Raise Up Oregon Agency Implementation Coordinating Team formed a workgroup tasked with developing recommendations for a statewide coordinated effort.
The workgroup met September 2020-February 2021 to develop these recommendations.
Safe Sleep Messaging Toolkit (2021-2022)
In 2021, in collaboration with Coalition and with funding from the Oregon Department of Early Learning and Cate, the Maternal and Child Health Section (MCH) of the Oregon Public Health Division tasked Marketing for Change (M4C) with developing a toolkit providing consistent messages that could be shared across settings in a culturally responsive way that supports safe sleep practices by working to make them a community-wide norm and expectation.
Safe Sleep Partner Showcase
Safe Sleep Community Partner Mini Grants (2023)
In collaboration with the Coalition, the Maternal and Child Health Section of the Oregon Health Authority worked with five local Oregon agencies on safe sleep promotion. Each agency was awarded a $30,000 mini-grant to develop strategies to reach Black/African American and Native American/Indigenous communities.
On August 2, 2023, we hosted the Safe Sleep Community Partner Showcase for the grantees to share their success. You can watch the showcase by clicking on the video to the right.