Fatality review teams are most successful when they’ve engaged a broad, multidisciplinary group of partners. These partners may be directly engaged in the response to a child’s death such as law enforcement, coroner/medical examiner or child welfare. The partners may also be engaged in important prevention work such as children’s hospitals, injury prevention professionals or bereavement resources. Below are common fatality review partners as well as data sources that are helpful for fatality review teams

  • Evermore
    • https://www.live-evermore.org/about
    • Evermore is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world a more livable place for bereaved families by working to bring more and better resources to families and the professionals who serve them.
  • Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA).
    • https://www.plida.org/
    • Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance supports health care practitioners and parent advocates in their efforts to improve care for families who experience the death of a baby during pregnancy, birth, or infancy.
  • Resolve Through Sharing® (RST)
  • First Candle
    • http://cjfirstcandle.org/
    • The CJ SIDS Foundation and First Candle merged in 2017 to form First Candle, an organization committed to the elimination of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths through education, while providing support for grieving families who have suffered a loss.

  • Alliance for Children and Families
    • https://www.alliance1.org/web/within-our-reach/about-within-our-reach.aspx
    • The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities is a strategic action network of thousands of committed social sector leaders who through their excellence, distinction, and influence are working to achieve a healthy and equitable society. Within Our Reach is an office established at the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities to fundamentally reform child welfare in the 21st century. The reform requires a shift towards a public health approach to identify and address the root causes of maltreatment and engages with multiple stakeholders to address these causes while also promoting efforts to keep children in immediate harm’s way safe.
  • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
    • https://www.apsac.org/
    • The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children is a nonprofit, national organization focused on meeting the needs of professionals engaged in all aspects of services for maltreated children and their families.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway
    • https://www.childwelfare.gov/
    • Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more.
  • Child Welfare League of America
    • https://www.cwla.org/
    • CWLA is a coalition of private and public agencies that works to serve children and families who may have experienced abuse, neglect, family disruption, or a range of other factors that jeopardize their safety, permanence, or well-being.
  • Children’s Bureau Express
    • https://cbexpress.acf.hhs.gov/
    • Children’s Bureau Express is a monthly online digest that covers news, issues, and trends of interest to professionals and policymakers in the interrelated fields of child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
  • Children’s Trust Fund Alliance (formerly National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds)
    • https://ctfalliance.org/
    • Children’s Trust Fund Alliance is the national membership organization for state children’s trust funds, and provides trainings, publications and other supports to ensure broad audiences understand the role each of us can play in strengthening families and communities and preventing child abuse and neglect.
  • Prevent Child Abuse America (formerly National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse)
    • https://preventchildabuse.org/
    • Prevent Child Abuse America is a nonprofit that works to promote the healthy development of children and prevent child abuse and neglect before it occurs through the utilization of their signature home visiting program Healthy Families America.

  • Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    • https://www.astho.org/
    • ASTHO’s primary function is to track, evaluate, and advise members on the impact and formation of public or private health policy which may affect them and to provide them with guidance and technical assistance on improving the nation’s health.
  • Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC)
    • https://www.childhealthdata.org/
    • The DRC is a national center, supported and led by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau, assisting in the design, development, documentation and public dissemination of user friendly information about, data findings on and datasets and codebooks for the National Survey of Children’s Health.
  • Department of Defense
  • Health Resources and Services Administration
    • https://www.hrsa.gov/
    • The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary federal agency for improving health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable.
  • Maternal and Child Health Bureau (within HRSA)
    • https://mchb.hrsa.gov/about
    • The Maternal and Child Health Bureau administers programs, supports research, and invests in workforce training to ensure the health and well-being of mothers, children, and families across their lives. In partnership with states and communities, the Bureau supports health care and public health services for an estimated 55 million people nationwide.
  • Division of Child Adolescent and Family Health (within MCHB)
    • https://mchb.hrsa.gov/maternal-child-health-topics/adolescent-and-young-adult-health
    • DCAFH aims to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of the nation’s children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. The Division advances comprehensive health promotion, in primary care, school-based, and other care settings; supports effective injury prevention strategies; and expands access to high quality emergency medicine services for children with the goal of improving the health of our nation’s young people and their families.
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    • https://www.samhsa.gov/
    • The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation and to improve the lives of individuals living with mental and substance use disorders, and their families.
  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
    • https://www.cpsc.gov/
    • CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction.
  • U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    • https://www.nhtsa.gov/
    • NHTSA reduces deaths, injuries and economic losses from motor vehicle crashes through enforcing vehicle performance standards and partnerships with state and local governments.
  • U.S. Fire Administration
    • https://www.usfa.fema.gov/
    • The U.S. Fire Administration, an entity of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), supports and strengthens fire and emergency medical services (EMS) and stakeholders to prepare for, prevent, mitigate and respond to all hazards.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    • https://www.cdc.gov/
    • CDC is a national public health institute, and one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services, that conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats and responds when these arise.
  • National Institute for Health (NIH)
    • https://www.nih.gov/
    • The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency and the largest biomedical research agency in the world.

  • AAP
    • https://www.aap.org/en-us/Pages/Default.aspx
    • The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 67,000 pediatricians committed to the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.​ The AAP has a Section on Child Death Review and Prevention for its members.
  • AAP Section on Child Death Review and Prevention
  • ACOG
    • https://www.acog.org/
    • the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is a professional membership organization for obstetrician–gynecologists that produces practice guidelines for providers and educational materials for patients, provides practice management and career support, facilitates programs and initiatives aimed at improving women’s health, and advocates on behalf of members and patients.
  • Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM)
    • https://www.smfm.org/
    • The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) is a non-profit, membership organization that supports the clinical practice of maternal-fetal medicine by providing education, promoting research, and engaging in advocacy to optimize the health of high-risk pregnant women and their babies.
  • National Center for School Mental Health, University of Maryland
    • http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/
    • The National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is a technical assistance and training center with a focus on advancing research, training, policy, and practice in school mental health.
  • Child Trauma Academy
    • https://www.childtrauma.org/
    • The ChildTrauma Academy is a Community of Practice that focuses on translating emerging findings about the human brain and child development into practical implications for the ways we nurture, protect, enrich, educate and heal children.
  • National Adolescent Health Information Center
    • https://nahic.ucsf.edu/
    • The National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center focuses on the intersection of public health, systems of care and clinical practice, through research and synthesis, and dissemination, networking and partnering while supporting state efforts to improve care for adolescents and young adults.
  • National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (Georgetown University)
    • https://www.ncemch.org/
    • The National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas–systems-wide program development, education, and state-of-the-art knowledge–to improve the health and well-being of the nation’s children and families through collaboration with federal agencies, corporate and philanthropic partners, professional organizations, and academic institutions.
  • National Institute for Children’s Health Quality
    • https://www.nichq.org/
    • The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality works with states, communities, public health agencies, hospitals and families to improve children’s health. By creating partnerships, encouraging collaboration and providing data-driven technical assistance, NICHQ supports the different stakeholders who, together, impact the systems underlying children’s health. NICHQ administers the Supporting Healthy Start Performance Project (SHSPP) and the Healthy Start EPIC Center, a National Training and Technical Assistance Center funded by HRSA.
  • The National Healthy Start Association
    • http://www.nationalhealthystart.org/
    • NHSA is a membership association for the federal Healthy Start programs. NHSA promotes the development of community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of maternal and infant mortality, low birth weight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.

  • Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
    • https://www.glsen.org/
    • GLSEN is an education organization working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and to prompt LGBT cultural inclusion and awareness in K-12 school communities.
  • National Birth Equity Collaborative, NBEC
    • https://birthequity.org/
    • NBEC creates solutions that optimize Black maternal and infant health through training, policy advocacy, research, and community-centered collaboration.
  • CityMatCH
    • https://www.citymatch.org/
    • CityMatCH is a national organization of urban maternal and child health leaders that works toward strengthening public health leaders and organizations to promote equity and improve the health of urban women, children, and communities.
  • Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
    • http://www.amchp.org/Pages/default.aspx
    • AMCHP is a national resource, partner and advocate for state public health leaders and others working to improve the health of women, children, youth and families, including those with special health care needs. A strategic focus of AMCHP is to support maternal mortality reviews and fetal and infant mortality reviews and equip its members to act. As part of this focus, AMCHP partners with the CDC Division of Reproductive Health to administer ReviewtoAction.org, a national resource that promotes the maternal mortality review process as the best way to understand why maternal mortality in the United States is increasing and prioritize interventions to improve maternal health.

  • Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV)
  • Nurse Family Partnership
    • https://www.nursefamilypartnership.org/
    • Nurse-Family Partnership is a non-profit organization operating in the United States which arranges for home visits from registered nurses to low-income first-time mothers. The visits begin during pregnancy and continue for two years following birth.
  • Parents as Teachers
    • https://parentsasteachers.org/
    • Parents as Teachers builds strong communities, thriving families and children who are healthy, safe and ready to learn by matching parents and caregivers with trained professionals who make regular personal home visits during a child’s earliest years in life, from prenatal through kindergarten.
  • Early Head Start Home Visiting
  • Healthy Families America
    • https://www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org/
    • HFA is one of the leading family support and home-visiting programs in the country that embodies an infant mental health approach, with the belief that early, nurturing relationships are the foundation for life-long, healthy development.

  • American Association of Poison Control Centers
  • American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
    • https://afsp.org/
    • The AFSP is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
  • CDC National Center for Injury and Violence Prevention and Control
    • https://www.cdc.gov/injury/index.html
    • This branch of the CDC uses scientific methods to prevent injuries that have been used to prevent disease: carefully describing the problem through surveillance, studying factors that increase or decrease risk for injury, designing and evaluating intervention strategies that target these risk factors, and taking steps to ensure that proven strategies are implemented in communities nationwide.
  • Children’s Safety Network
    • https://www.childrenssafetynetwork.org/
    • CSN works with state and jurisdiction Maternal & Child Health and Injury & Violence prevention programs to create an environment in which all infants, children, and youth are safe and healthy and to equip states and jurisdictions to strengthen their workforce capacity, utilize data and implement evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies to make reductions in injury-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits.
  • Cribs for Kids
    • https://cribsforkids.org/
    • The mission of Cribs for Kids® is to prevent infant sleep-related deaths by educating parents and caregivers on the importance of practicing safe sleep for their babies and by providing portable cribs to families who, otherwise, cannot afford a safe place for their babies to sleep.
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
  • National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep Improvement and Innovation Network
  • National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
    • https://www.marshfieldresearch.org/nccrahs
    • National Children’s Center has led the development and dissemination of knowledge products and intervention strategies for childhood agricultural health and safety.
  • National Drowning Prevention Alliance
    • https://ndpa.org/
    • NDPA unites partners to help reduce the incidence of drowning and aquatic injuries in the US and abroad.
  • National Fire Protection Association
    • https://www.nfpa.org/
    • The NFPA is a global self-funded nonprofit organization devoted to eliminating death, injury, property and economic loss due to fire, electrical and related hazards.
  • National Safety Council
    • https://www.nsc.org/
    • The National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety advocate focused on eliminating the leading causes of preventable injuries and deaths.
  • Suicide Prevention Resource Center
    • https://www.sprc.org/
    • The SPRC is the only federally supported resource center devoted to advancing the implementation of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
  • Safe Kids Worldwide
    • https://www.safekids.org/
    • Safe Kids Worldwide is a global nonprofit that works with more than 400 network members in the U.S. and partners in 33 countries to keep kids safe at home, on the road and at play by educating families, raising awareness, creating safer environments and advocating for improved laws to protect children.
  • Safe States
    • https://www.safestates.org/
    • The Safe States Alliance is a non-profit organization and professional association whose mission is to strengthen the practice of injury and violence prevention.

  • National Birth Defects Prevention Network
    • https://www.nbdpn.org/
    • The NBDPN is a volunteer-based organization that addresses the issues of birth defects surveillance, research, and prevention under one umbrella by maintaining a national network of state and population-based birth defects programs.
  • March of Dimes
    • https://www.marchofdimes.org/
    • March of Dimes is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies through a variety of programs to serve the specific maternal and infant health needs of a community.
  • International Society for the Study and Prevention of Infant Deaths
    • https://www.ispid.org/index
    • The ISPID is a not-for-profit organization discovering evidence-based preventive measures for stillbirth and sudden infant death and working to promote improved quality, standardization of care for bereaved parents, and networking families, professionals, and scientists through resource sharing.
  • Star Legacy Foundation (stillbirths)
    • https://starlegacyfoundation.org/
    • The Star Legacy Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing pregnancy loss and neonatal death and improving care for families who experience such tragedies.

  • National Citizens Review Panels
  • National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative
    • https://ndvfri.org/
    • The NDVFRI is a resource center dedicated to domestic violence fatality review which provides technical assistance for the reviewing of domestic violence related deaths with the underlying objectives of preventing them in the future, preserving the safety of battered women, and holding accountable both the perpetrators of domestic violence and the multiple agencies and organizations that come into contact with the parties.
  • Maternal Mortality Review
  • Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality
    • https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternal-mortality/erase-mm/index.html
    • CDC has made 24 awards, supporting 25 states for the Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality (ERASE MM) Program. This funding directly supports agencies and organizations that coordinate and manage Maternal Mortality Review Committees to identify, review, and characterize maternal deaths; and identify prevention opportunities.