Please see links to useful resources shared by the Office of the Child Advocate below:

Colleagues, please see this segment on WTNH regarding Yale New Haven Hospital's efforts on safe sleep for infants. http://wtnh.com/2015/10/27/safe-sleep-for-your-baby/

For a copy of the joint Public Health Alert on Safe Sleep published by the OCA and the Child Fatality Review Panel, please click here: http://www.ct.gov/oca/lib/oca/PublicHealthAlert_Safe_SleepApr_7_FINAL__docx_%282%29.pdf

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Colleagues, please see this story about a Baltimore high school that provides trauma-informed supports for students.

For At-Risk Kids, Mentors Provide Far More Than Just Homework Help
NPR
At Baltimore's Renaissance Academy High School, mentors help students cope with the trauma in their daily lives. The principal says the aim is not just to keep boys in school, but to keep them alive.

Read the full story here: http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/29/447241580/for-at-risk-kids-mentors-provide-far-more-than-just-homework-help