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Georgia Safe to Sleep campaign and Hospital Initiative

Also: Georgia Safe to Sleep · Safe Sleep Shelter Program · Baby Bundle kits

Multi-part state programme adapting national Safe to Sleep: a hospital initiative supporting all birthing hospitals to adopt safe sleep policies, staff training and modelling; portable crib distribution with group education for low-income families; and a shelter programme giving cribs, staff training and Baby Bundle kits to homeless, housing and domestic violence agencies.

Years
2016–now
Country
United States
Topic
Infant sleep
Asks people to
Substitute
Strategy
Simple instruction
Channel
Clinical settingPrint
Audience
CliniciansParents
Birthing hospitals, low-income expectant and new parents, shelter residents

Evidence

ProcessMixed

All 79 birthing hospitals joined; share with a safe sleep policy rose from 44.3% to 87.3%. Crib-plus-education programmes raised knowledge and intended practice, but in a 28-site evaluation gains were largely not kept at follow-up. Shelter programme reached 44 agencies serving about 20,950 people; parent outcome data were thin.

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Georgia Department of Public Health State local government

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. Georgia Safe to Sleep campaign and Hospital Initiative (official page) sponsor
  2. Miller TJ et al. Implementing a statewide Safe to Sleep hospital initiative. J Community Health 2018 evaluation · 2018 · DOI 10.1007/s10900-018-0483-3 · PMID 29476308
  3. Salm Ward TC et al. Evaluation of a crib distribution and safe sleep educational program. J Community Health 2018 evaluation · 2018 · DOI 10.1007/s10900-018-0493-1 · PMID 29497933
  4. Salm Ward TC et al. Evaluation of a multisite safe infant sleep education and crib distribution program. IJERPH 2021 evaluation · 2021 · DOI 10.3390/ijerph18136956 · PMID 34209643
  5. Salm Ward TC, Miller TJ. Safe Sleep Shelter and Baby Bundle kit distribution program. Health Promot Pract 2024 evaluation · 2024 · DOI 10.1177/15248399241252801 · PMID 38715356
  6. Leong T et al. Safe sleep initiative in a freestanding pediatric hospital (Atlanta). Inj Epidemiol 2019 evaluation · 2019 · DOI 10.1186/s40621-019-0205-z · PMID 31333992

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. State campaign rows exist in data/state-campaigns.tsv (GA, 2016). Hospital initiative start may predate 2016 (paper cites AAP 2011 recommendations).

Record cases/ga-safe-to-sleep-hospital-initiative.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign