brightstartct.org

Bright Start is an organization focused on helping families and caregivers create safer sleep environments for infants. Through its Safe Sleep Academy, the organization provides education about reducing the risk of sleep-related infant deaths, which can include sudden infant death syndrome and accidental suffocation or strangulation. Its guidance emphasizes placing babies alone, on their backs, in a bare, safety-approved crib.

Bright Start’s staff are certified to teach safe sleep practices. The Academy offers online training that participants can complete with a quiz; those who pass receive a certificate. It also encourages graduates to share safe sleep information with family members and their communities. As part of its support for families, Bright Start helps create Safe Sleep Plans to protect babies.

In some areas, qualifying families who cannot otherwise afford a safe sleep space may receive a Cribette portable crib. The compact product converts from a full-size bassinet into a sleep space for infants up to one year old and features safe sleep messaging.