The Raise Foundation – Orange County’s Child Abuse Prevention Council – and The Hayes Foundation have formed a partnership aimed at raising awareness of SIDS and safe-sleeping practices in Orange County.
The Raise Foundation will implement The Hayes Foundation’s This Side Up campaign, an educational effort that reminds anyone who looks after a baby (parents, grandparents, siblings and daycare providers) that babies are at less of a risk of SIDS if placed on their backs at nap time or bedtime. It will distribute the campaign’s educational onesies – which read “This Side Up…While Sleeping” on the front and offer additional safe-sleeping tips on the back – to Orange County’s hospitals, public health sites and Family Resource Centers.
 Some 2,500 families in the United States lose a baby to SIDS each year. That’s about half as many deaths related to SIDS as in 1994, when the national Back to Sleep campaign was introduced. The Hayes Foundation introduced this campaign in 2006 as an extension of Back to Sleep, with the goal of providing a tangible reminder to those who look after babies.
Hospitals and organizations interested in obtaining This Side Up onesies (printed in English, Spanish or Vietnamese) can call The Raise Foundation at 949.955.1578 or visit theraisefoundation.org for more information.
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