Urban Indian Health Institute receives grant to battle SIDS (Indian Country Today)

SEATTLE – The Urban Indian Health Institute, a division of the Seattle Indian Health Board, announced that it has received a $9,700 grant from the CJ Foundation for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the premier funder of SIDS programs and SIDS-related research in the nation. Grant monies will support activities of the Native American Women’s Dialogue on Infant Mortality, which brings together concerned community members, federal and state agencies, and community-based organizations to address the high infant mortality and SIDS rates in American Indian and Alaska Native families.    read more