About the Coalition

Purpose

The coalition facilitates a coordinated approach to promoting infant safe sleep across Oregon.

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.

The coalition meets quarterly. Members of the coalition represent a wide range of agencies listed below.

If you are interested in joining the coalition, reach out to: mchsection.mailbox@odhsoha.oregon.gov

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 charge of the workgroup was to:

  1. Identify vulnerable populations and risk factors in Oregon for
    sleep-related infant deaths.

  2. Identify and recommend effective, culturally-appropriate
    prevention strategies.

The workgroup met September 2020-February 2021 to develop these recommendations.

Read the Report

Meet the Coalition

  • Multnomah County Health Department

  • Oregon Health Sciences University

  • Oregon Child Development Coalition

  • Oregon Center for Children and Youth with Special Health Needs

  • Oregon Department of Human Services, Communications

  • Legacy Health

  • Early Learning Division Community Systems Team

  • Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care, Office of Child Care

  • Oregon Health Authority Maternal and Child Health

  • Healthy Birth Initiatives at Multnomah County Health Department

  • Lane County Health Department

  • Marion County Health Department

  • Klamath County Health Department

  • Jackson County Health Department

  • Oregon Health Sciences University, Tom Sargent Safety Center

  • Adventist Health

  • Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care, Healthy Families Oregon

  • Oregon Department of Human Services, Child Fatality Prevention and Review Program

  • Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

  • Oregon Health Authority, WIC Program

  • Oregon Association of Relief Nurseries

  • Central City Concern

  • Oregon Department of Education Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education

Safe Sleep Partner Showcase

Over the last year, 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.

Learn more about our community partners by clicking here.