National Resource Center for Child Death Review (Policy and Practice)

The National MCH Center for Child Death Review is a resource center that promotes supports and enhances methodologies to improve death investigations, forensics and services to families; and helps states and communities develop strategies to prevent deaths and serious injuries to children. The center provides expertise across a broad spectrum of child health and injuries, including infant mortality, SIDS, unintentional injuries, and violence. The center provides consultation and trainings at the state, community and national levels. The Center also manages the web-based National Child Death Review Case reporting system. Used by the majority of states and representing more than 75% of the U.S. child population, this system is a database of comprehensive information on the circumstances involved in individual child deaths and compiled by local and state child death review teams. The center permits access to this database to state users, government agencies and researchers. The Center also provides national leadership in building public and private partnerships to incorporate findings from local and state death reviews into policy and program efforts that improve child health and safety. The Center has offices in Okemos and Washington DC.