The Campaign

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, as well as fund an Infant Safe Sleep Mini-grant Educational Outreach Program.

 

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

 

The 366 Giving Drive – Creating Safe Sleeping Environments for Infants

  • Goal: To raise $100,000 to support campaign initiatives.
  • Duration: October 1-December 31, 2017
  • Your Support: By collecting $3.66 from you and members of your community we can provide portable cribs to families who can’t afford one. Or, sponsor a special giving drive at your alma mater or in your local community.    

Infant Safe Sleep Mini-grant Educational Outreach Program

  • Goal: To fund $1,000 mini-grants to award to community driven organizations across America to host events during National Minority Health Month in April 2018. The events will target new and expecting parents, grandparents, family members, caregivers and communities focusing on babies who have survived their 366th day promoting the importance of having healthy infants and families. The grants will assist with purchasing more portable cribs, as well as sleep sacs, crib sheets and other products, and provide safe sleep education to communities that are impacted the most.
  • Duration: April through May 2018 – Honoring National Minority Health Month  
  • Your Support: Provides opportunities for organizations in your community to apply for a mini-grant and host an educational event.   

 

The Global Infant Safe Sleep (GISS) Center

Our mission is to empower the world’s communities by achieving equity in infant survival. The Global Infant Safe Sleep (GISS) Center supports vulnerable and marginalized communities to reduce Sudden Unexpected Infant Death. Stacy D. Scott, PhD, founder of the GISS Center, is a 30-year public health advocate, and a safe sleep expert who’s worked from the government agency level to ground zero spearheading numerous community outreach programs nationwide to end health disparities and reduce the risk of infant deaths. The Infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of children less than one year of age per 1,000 live births, and is considered a basic measure of public health for countries around the world.  In some states, the infant mortality rate continues to rise and the GISS Center wants to mobilize communities to reverse this deadly trend.