Campaign: Celebrate 366 — Here’s How You Can Give!

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The 366 Giving Drive – Creating Safe Sleeping Environments for Infant

Campaign: Celebrate 366 is an awareness campaign and giving drive to help reduce Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and ensure more babies make it to their first birthday – the first 366 days – and beyond. Proceeds will go to the purchase of portable cribs for families who can’t afford one.

Here’s how you can give:

Make your donation today

  • Text “Give” to 614-412-3050
  • Go to the GISS Center website at www.gisscenter.org
  • Send checks to: C.A.R.E. Community (please write GISS in the memo line), 124 East Baltimore Street, Suite 209, Jackson, TN 36301

Thank you for your donation! –The GISS Center Team

Saving Our Babies

Each year, nearly 13,000 African American babies die before their 1st birthday. African American babies die two time more that white babies from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).  SUID diagnosed as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, infection, ingestion, metabolic disease, cardiac arrhythmia, trauma (accidental or non-accidental), or SIDS. We know by reducing the number of sudden unexpected infant deaths, we can significantly impact the disparities that exist in infant mortality and work to achieve equity in birth outcomes.

The following states have the highest sleep-related infant mortality:

Alaska               Alabama

Kentucky          Arkansas

Oklahoma        Louisiana

West Virginia   Mississippi

Georgia             South Carolina

Tennessee        Michigan

Indiana              Ohio

Kansas