Oregon SIDS
and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) Resources

Resources for Grief Support

• The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families
  The mission of The Dougy Center for Grieving Children is to provide loving support in a safe place where children, teens and their families grieving a death can share their experiences as they move through their healing process.
  
  
• Brief Encounters
  Brief Encounters is a nonprofit, nonsectarian group for parents whose babies have died before, during, or after birth. Brief Encounters provides meetings in the greater Portland, Oregon area and local phone support. At informal, mutually supportive meetings, bereaved parents and their families share their stories, discuss issues that arise around pregnancy and infant loss, and remember their children. Through talking or just listening, we learn what grief is and how, through understanding and caring, we heal.
  
  
• BabyLoss Support Group (Eugene)
  For those who have experienced pregnancy loss or the loss of an infant or toddler. Download information (pdf).

Educational Resources

• CD Summary issue dedicated to SIDS
  
  
• Back to Sleep
  The Back to Sleep campaign has been successful in promoting infant back sleeping to parents, family members, child care providers, health professionals, and all other caregivers of infants. This campaign is sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the SIDS Alliance, and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs. Policy statements and educational materials are available on this website.
  
  
• National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center
  The National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center provides information services and technical assistance on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and related topics. Our goal is to promote understanding of SIDS and provide comfort to those affected by SIDS through information sharing.
  
  
• Safe sleep brochure from Oregon Department of Human Services, Public Health Division
  
  
• Fact Sheet from the National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center
  What Is SIDS? (English)
  ¿Qué Es el SMIS (El Síndrome de Muerte Infantil Súbita)? (Spanish)

Contact: Fran Goodrich, R.N., (971) 673-0262