Between 2006 and 2009 there were 89 infant deaths related to SIDS, SUDI, or accidental suffocation. Of these 46 (51.7%) infants were sleeping in an adult bed at the time of their death. The overall rate of such deaths has remained high in the last decade, prompting Milwaukee public health officials to launch a provocative city-wide safe sleep campaign to prevent them.
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November 9, 2011 - City's provocative new safe sleep ad - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article
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November 9, 2011 - Barrett starts six-year campaign to drop infant mortality rates - WTMJ radio interview
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November 8, 2011 - Saving Milwaukee's babies - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article
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November 8, 2011 - Milwaukee sets goal to reduce infant mortality - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article
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October 15, 2011 - Barrett, Health Department and faith leaders unite - Milwaukee Courier article
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October 9, 2011 - Barrett launches effort to save infant lives - TMJ4 report
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February 22, 2010: Anna Benton, Family and Child Health Services Director, is interviewed for WUWM's "City Tries to Crack Co-Sleeping Deaths" report
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January 28, 2010: MHD launches Cribs for Kids Facebook page.
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January 26, 2010: WPR's Joy Cardin presents both sides of the safe sleep debate - MHD's Director of Family and Community Health Services Anna Benton is interviewed to discuss dangers of co-sleeping.
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January 23, 2010: Anna Benton's article for the Milwuakee Courier
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January 21, 2010: Anna Benton's opinion piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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January 2010 news coverage
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December 30, 2009: Wisconsin Radio Network interview with Anna Benton, MHD's Family and Community Health Services Director