Keeping Infants Safe
Course Description
This childcare training course applies to infants and covers sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), safe sleep practices, abusive head trauma (AHT)/shaken baby syndrome, and early brain development.
Learn to recognize and prevent AHT, understand infant brain development, and take precautions to reduce the risk of SIDS, including the use of safe sleep practices. See the learning outcomes and topics below for more information on what is covered in this course.
Some states have specific baby safety, SIDS, ACEs, safe sleep practices, AHT/shaken baby syndrome, and early brain development requirements. Please read below to see how this course can be used for these requirements. Keeping Infants Safe certificates are individualized for those states with specific requirements.
Course formats
This course is offered in both our coursebook (with required online component/testing) and our fully online format. Click here to learn more about Care Courses' training formats.
Acceptance information
This course is accepted for annual state training requirements in most states, including many states' infant safety requirements, and for the CDA and for CDA renewal training requirements.
Information on specific states:
- Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah: This course fulfills the state training requirements on SIDS, SUID, SBS and safe sleep. This course covers New York's 10th training topic on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
- Maryland: This course fulfills Maryland's SIDS training requirement.
- Michigan: This course may be used by caregivers working in centers to fulfill Michigan’s safe sleep and shaken baby syndrome training requirements. This course may not be used by family child care providers to fulfill Michigan’s safe sleep and shaken baby syndrome training requirements.
- Missouri: This course does not meet the Missouri requirement for safe sleep training or for the annual clock hours of child-care related training.
- Minnesota: This course does not meet Minnesota’s mandated SUID and AHT training requirement.
- Nevada and North Carolina: This course is not accepted for the Nevada or North Carolina SIDS requirement.
- Wisconsin: This course fulfills the state requirement for SIDS risk reduction procedures, but it does not fulfill Wisconsin's requirement for shaken baby syndrome.
Learning outcomes
After completing Keeping Infants Safe you will be able to describe how infants' brains grow and change during the first two years of life; identify risk factors that lead to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and the causes and symptoms of Abusive Head Trauma (AHT)/shaken baby syndrome (SBS); explain the difference between sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); and describe the caregiver’s role in creating safe, healthy conditions for infants, and in assisting families in making informed choices that promote infant safety.
Topics covered
- Brain development during infancy
- Ways to recognize and prevent abusive head trauma/shaken-baby syndrome
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- What is meant by SUID and SIDS
- Major risk factors for SIDS
- Ways to reduce the risk of SIDS
Prerequisites
Must be able to fluently read and write English.
Instructional methodology
Read written material, view videos, listen to audio.
Assessment methods
Multiple choice quiz and written assignments.
What our students say about Keeping Infants Safe
"I have learned so much from taking this course! I learned how to interact with an infant, how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) impact a child's future and health, how babies communicate, SIDS and SUID, and much more! In addition to opening up my own home daycare facility, I plan to start a family soon. This course was so helpful in not only becoming a home daycare provider, but also in becoming a parent myself one day. Thank you for putting together such an informational course!" - Maywood, Illinois
"I love everything about Care Courses [Keeping Infants Safe]. The customer service is outstanding and the choice of course topics is perfect. I have taken many courses and enjoyed all of them. I have and will continue to highly recommend care courses to others in the child care business. Thank you." - Sloatsburg, New York
Completion deadline
This training expires 12 months from the date of purchase. Courses must be successfully completed by their expiration date in order for the student to receive a certificate.
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