Safe Baby, Safe Child

5 Clock Hours

To get credit for this course you must watch a short movie which will come on a DVD with your book or an online link with your electronic course.

This course requires the following movie.  Book courses will be shipped with this movie on DVD.  You can watch it now at: http://www.carecourses.com/Videos/NewYorkLovesSafeBabies.htm

Course Description: Learn to recognize and prevent shaken baby syndrome, understand infant brain development, and take precautions to prevent SIDS.

Safe Baby, Safe Child may be taken by anyone in any state.  Safe Baby, Safe Child satisfies the Illinois SIDS requirement and the Texas, Maryland, Utah, and Minnesota requirements for instruction on Shaken Baby Syndrome. This course is not accepted for SIDS training in North Carolina. Certificates are individualized for states with specific requirements.

The course fee entitles one person to receive the clock hours (and CEUs for CDA renewal) granted by this course (assuming you pass each lesson/chapter with a 70% or better). Once you have completed the course and mailed (electronic courses may be faxed) in your answers to us, you can expect to receive your certificate within 1-3 weeks (depending on the grading option you choose).  Click here for grading options.

Safe Baby, Safe Child fulfills Wisconsin's requirement for Shaken Baby Syndrome training when taken as part of the course work for "Introduction to the Child Care Profession" and/or "Fundamentals of Infant and Toddler Care." Students who use CARE Courses for both of these Wisconsin Registry requirements need to take Safe Baby, Safe Child only one time to meet both Registry requirements. Your certificate will be in your record at CARE Courses the first time you take this course. We will update this website when this course is accepted as a stand-alone course to meet Wisconsin's Shaken Baby Syndrome training requirement. Click here for information about using CARE Courses for Wisconsin Registry requirements.

5 clock hours in safety:
1. Brain development during infancy
2. Ways to recognize and prevent shaken baby syndrome
3. Results of shaking infants and young children
4. Major reasons adults shake infants and young children
5. Risk factors for becoming a victim of Shaken Baby/Child Syndrome
6. Ways to soothe crying babies
7. Ways to cope with young children's difficult developmental stages
8. Results of traumatic brain injury for young children
9. Ways to prevent traumatic brain injury for young children
10. Major risk factors for SIDS and ways to reduce the risk of SIDS