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Child Death Review Board lays out safe‑sleep, suicide, firearm and abusive‑head‑trauma recommendations; commission asks for task‑force follow up
Summary
The Child Death Review Board presented findings and recommendations after reviewing cases from 2010–2023, urging statewide safe‑sleep education, better suicide case reporting, firearm safe‑storage work and continued funding for abusive‑head‑trauma prevention. Commissioners discussed task forces and declined to immediately adopt all recommendations, requesting further refinement.
Liz Koff, program manager for the Child Death Review Board (CDRB), summarized the board’s 2023 review and annual recommendations, drawing attention to clusters of causes and opportunities for prevention.
Koff reported that CDRB reviewed roughly 400 cases spanning 2010–2023, including about 95 unsafe‑sleep deaths, 54 suicides and 48 firearm‑related deaths (split between homicides and suicides). She said the board’s recommendations emphasize: expanding safe‑sleep education statewide (with attention to…
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