Safe Sleep Sabbath educates congregations on infant mortality By Maricha Harris Sunday morning service is the last place a churchgoer would expect to learn how to place her baby safely to sleep. But on Sunday, October 9th that’s just what various area congregations were taught. Mayor Tom Barrett and Health Commissioner Bevan Baker visited three [...]

By Lynda L. Jones Mayor Tom Barrett along with Health Commissioner Bevan Baker are reaching out to area clergy leaders to help inform the public on Safe Sleep for infants. As shared in last week’s Courier through his article on Infant Morality, Barrett announced that the next phase of the Infant Mortality campaign would be [...]

By Anna C. Benton, director Family and Community Health Services City of Milwaukee Health Department For the past decade, an average of 23 Milwaukee infants each year have died while sleeping unsafely. To address this issue, the City of Milwaukee Health Department recently launched a “safe sleep” campaign to prevent deaths related to bed-sharing in [...]