This Webpage provides Anne Arundel County community members, health care providers and social service providers with information, tools and resources to help educate pregnant women, parents and caregivers about how to keep infants and young children safe from injuries. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to have additional information.
Keeping Babies Safe Presentation Topics
The following sections include information about how to give community presentations, as well as individual and small group counseling, on:
- Safe Sleeping for Babies/SIDS Prevention
- Good Parenting: What to Do When Your Baby is Crying
- Home Safety for Babies and Young Children
- Car Safety for Babies and Young Children
Program Overview
The Anne Arundel County Department of Health created the Keeping Babies Safe Training Program to instruct health care workers, social service providers and others who work with pregnant women, families and caregivers to teach “Keeping Babies Safe” messages to County parents and caregivers.
Healthy Babies Educational Materials
Information Cards
- Baby’s Car Seat Safety
- Father’s Card
- Fetal Movements
- Preterm Labor
- Safe Sleeping for Babies
- Calming Your Baby
- Home Safety
- Secondhand Smoke
Fliers
Safe Sleeping for Babies/SIDS Prevention
This section includes information on how to give the Safe Sleeping for Babies presentation to community audiences. You can also use the messages and materials contained in this presentation to provide individual or small group counseling to pregnant women, parents, grandparents, child care providers and other caregivers in Anne Arundel County.
If you choose to use this presentation, please contact us and let us know about the audience and the presentation date. Thank you.
Presentation and Presenter’s Notes
This presentation and its presenter’s notes are for teaching community audiences about safe sleep for babies.
- Safe Sleeping for Babies available as an Adobe PDF
Educational Materials
The Healthy Babies Safe Sleeping for Babies Information Card emphasizes the main points of the Safe Sleep for Babies presentation and illustrates the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations for safe sleep.
See the Healthy Babies Materials Order Form to order FREE Healthy Babies cards, fliers and other educational material for Anne Arundel County residents.
Background Reading
Provides additional information about safe sleep for babies and helps answer questions that audience members have.
Good Parenting: What to Do When Your Baby is Crying
This section includes information about how to give the Good Parenting: What to Do When Your Baby is Crying presentation to community audiences. You can also use the messages contained in this presentation to provide individual or small group counseling to pregnant women, parents, grandparents, child care providers and other caregivers.
If you choose to use this presentation, please contact us and let us know about the audience and the presentation date. Thank you.
Presentation and Presenter’s Notes
This presentation and its presenter’s notes are for teaching community audiences about what to do when a baby is crying.
- Good Parenting: What to Do When Your Baby is Crying available as an Adobe PDF.
Educational Materials
The Calming Your Baby Information Card is for distribution to pregnant women, parents and caregivers of infants in Anne Arundel County. The information card emphasizes the main points of the Good Parenting: What to Do When Your Baby is Crying presentation.
See the Healthy Babies Materials Order Form to order FREE Healthy Babies cards, fliers and other educational material for Anne Arundel County residents.
Background Reading
Provides additional information about Shaken Baby Syndrome and helps answer questions that audience members have.
Home Safety for Babies and Young Children
This section includes information about how to give the Home Safety for Infants and Young Children presentation to community audiences. You can also use the messages contained in this presentation to provide individual or small group counseling to pregnant women, parents, grandparents, child care providers and other caregivers.
If you choose to use this presentation, please contact us and let us know about the audience and the presentation date. Thank you.
Presentation and Presenter’s Notes
This presentation and its presenter’s notes are for teaching community audiences (pregnant women, parents, grandparents, child care providers and other caregivers) about home safety for infants and young children.
- Home Safety for Babies and Young Children available as an Adobe PDF.
Educational Materials
The Healthy Babies Home Safety Information Card emphasizes the main points of the Home Safety for Infants and Young Children Presentation.
See the Healthy Babies Materials Order Form to order FREE Healthy Babies cards, fliers and other educational material for Anne Arundel County residents.
Background Reading
Provides additional information about home safety and helps answer questions that audience members have.
Car Safety for Babies and Young Children
This section includes information about how to give the Car Safety for Infants and Young Children presentation to community audiences. You can also use the messages contained in this presentation to provide individual or small group counseling to pregnant women, parents, grandparents, child care providers and other caregivers.
If you choose to use this presentation, please contact us and let us know about the audience and the presentation date. Thank you.
Presentation and Presenter’s Notes
This presentation and its presenter’s notes are for teaching community audiences about car safety for infants and young children.
- Car Safety for Babies and Young Children available as an Adobe PDF
Educational Materials
The Basic Car Seat Safety brochure emphasizes the main points of the Car Safety presentation. See the Healthy Babies Materials Order Form to order FREE Healthy Babies brochures, cards, fliers and other educational material for Anne Arundel County residents.
Background Reading
Provides additional information about car safety for infants and young children and helps to answer questions that audience members have.
- Child Passenger Safety Seat Reference Websites