Please note: This page is undergoing routine updates.
We are currently updating this toolkit with additional resources designed for public safety officials to utilize in their infant safe sleep intiatives. Please revisit periodically for the latest updates.
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Program Examples
Recognizing First Responders Webinar
WSCJTC Safe Sleep Roll Call Training
Pittsburgh Cops & Cribs Program
Team Member Training
American Academy of Pediatrics Safe Sleep Recommendations (2022)
Professional Training Series™ – First Responder Module
This module is part of the Cribs for Kids Professional Training Series™, a collection of targeted trainings designed to help professionals support safe sleep practices and reduce the risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).
Designed for EMS providers, firefighters, and law enforcement, this training equips first responders with the tools to quickly assess an infant’s sleep environment, engage with caregivers during any type of call, and connect families to resources for safe sleep spaces.
Each module includes a 15-question post-test. Upon completion, participants receive a Safe Sleep Professional badge and certificate.
Note: If you have not completed the Safe Sleep Ambassador Training within the last 6 months, you will need to complete it before beginning this module.
Safe Sleep Ambassador Training
One of the primary goals of Cribs for Kids® is to emphasize the importance of Safe Sleep Education and to disseminate it effectively throughout communities. To help us achieve this goal, we developed the Safe Sleep Ambassador – Educational Outreach Program.
Safe or Not Safe Photo Quiz
The Safe or Not Safe Photo Quiz is an interactive activity designed to quickly assess and refresh your knowledge of infant safe sleep practices. By presenting a series of images, this module helps you identify safe and unsafe sleeping environments for babies, promoting better understanding of how to reduce the risk of sleep-related deaths.
First Responder Training Video
How to Set Up A Cribette
Family Education
Safe Sleep Ambassador
One of the primary goals of Cribs for Kids® is to emphasize the importance of Safe Sleep Education and to disseminate it effectively throughout communities. To help us achieve this goal, we developed the Safe Sleep Ambassador – Educational Outreach Program.
Safe or Not Safe Photo Quiz
The Safe or Not Safe Photo Quiz is an interactive activity designed to quickly assess and refresh your knowledge of infant safe sleep practices. By presenting a series of images, this module helps you identify safe and unsafe sleeping environments for babies, promoting better understanding of how to reduce the risk of sleep-related deaths.
Cribs for Kids® Educational Tools
Other Educational Resources
Supportive Educational Social Media
Promote Your Program - Community Resources & Social Media
Program Pocket Card
This printable pocket card is designed for public safety officials to carry and distribute during community interactions as a quick and effective way to connect families with crib resources. One side of the card includes space to add your organization’s logo and a local point of contact—helping families easily reach out for support. The reverse side highlights the ABCs of Safe Sleep—Alone, on their Back, in a Crib—as a simple reminder of infant safe sleep practices.
This resource is provided as a Canva template so that you may update your logo and contact information. Please do not alter any of the safe sleep education or other text on the card. If you wish to make any edits beyond the addition of your logo and contact information, you must email the changes as a mock-up or proof to info@cribsforkids.org for review and approval before publishing or distributing the card in your community.
30 Second Screening Tool
This safe sleep screening tool was originally developed in partnership with the City of Pittsburgh Emergency Medical Services (EMS) following a rise in infant sleep-related deaths in 2024. Pittsburgh EMS identified a need for a portable, easy-to-use resource that helps first responders quickly assess infant sleep environments, recognize unsafe sleep practices, and identify when additional caregiver education or follow-up is needed. The tool also allows providers to document when a family needs a safe sleep space and coordinate the delivery of a donated crib, supporting timely intervention and resource connection.
One year after implementation, the City of Pittsburgh reported a more than 45% reduction in infant deaths. Now available for broader use, this tool helps first responders integrate safe sleep screening into dynamic, on-scene interactions and reinforces infant safe sleep as a public safety priority. The tool can also be co-branded with your agency’s logo.
As Assistant Chief Mark Pinchalk shared: “These are deaths we often can’t resuscitate our way out of – so we need to prevent them.”
Learn More About Pittsburgh EMS’ Experience:
Pittsburgh rise in sleep-related infant deaths prompts solutions | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths in Pittsburgh drop | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Social Media
- Share social media posts of Cribs for Kids or other #normalizesafesleep agencies and partners.
- Participate in the NICHD’s #ClearTheCrib each October for Infant Safe Sleep Awareness Month.
- Check with your state, county, or other safe sleep agency to learn if any social media content is available.
- Provide Safe Sleep Demonstrations and Education at Community Events.
- Safe Sleep Toy Kits and Education are available for purchase.
- Remember, all purchases support Cribs for Kids programs.
Safe Sleep Photo Album
We know that finding infant safe sleep photos is hard. That is why Cribs for Kids created our Lifestyle Safe Sleep photo gallery. This gallery features photos taken by Cribs for Kids. Our partners can use these pictures on their websites, social media, and print materials. All that we ask is that you kindly photocredit cribsforkids.org. or @cribsforkids if shared on social media.
Support Your Program with Safe Sleep Products
To support public safety initiatives, safe sleep products and education items are available for Cribs for Kids’ Partners to purchase. Though the use of Cribs for Kids products is not a requirement, all purchases support Cribs for Kids’ free programs and allow us to continue our mission to reduce SUID and Help Every Baby Sleep Safer.
Cribs for Kids’ products promote AAP safe sleep recommendations, meet safety requirements set by the CPSC, ASTM, Baby Safety Alliance (formerly JPMA), and are absent of recalls (https://www.saferproducts.gov).
Review our Virtual Product catalog to see items available for purchase including education and teaching materials, wearable blankets, Cribettes, unit specialty items, and more.
To learn more about how to order or to request a quote, please email us at info@cribsforkids.org.
Cribs for Kids Partner Resource Portal
The Cribs for Kids Partner Resource Portal is a secure, password-protected webpage created to help partner organizations maximize their safe sleep programs. It offers a wide range of resources and materials, including grant writing guidance, translated educational materials, and social media templates, to ensure your program runs smoothly and efficiently.
Access to this portal is free and exclusively available to Cribs for Kids Partner Organizations. To gain access, you must be a Cribs for Kids Partner. For organizations that are already Cribs for Kids Partners, the password is provided within the Partnership Welcome Email. If you need the password again, please email us at info@cribsforkids.org.
If your organization is not a partner, you can become an official Cribs for Kids Partner using the pink button below.
Infant Safe Sleep Dispatch Newsletter
Once a quarter, Cribs for Kids delivers the virtual Infant Safe Sleep Dispatch Newsletter directly to first responders as part of our National Public Safety Initiative. The monthly newsletter connects a network of first responders, sharing important updates on infant safe sleep, national and local news, innovative practices from the field, upcoming events, new products, and recognition of efforts in promoting safe sleep for infants.
