The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention

Resource Category: CDR

Child Death Review

  • Fatality Review of Deaths of Infants, Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs

    Approximately one-fifth of the cases reviewed by CDR teams and entered into the CDR-Case Reporting System are deaths of children with disabilities and/or special health care needs. Infants and children with disabilities/special health care needs have different risks for death than their peers without these conditions. To conduct effective reviews of such deaths, CDR and FIMR teams need knowledge of disability/special health care needs in order to determine what role, if any, the disability/special health care needs played in the death.

    Webinar (passcode: Disabilities)
    Slides (PDF)
    Guidance (PDF)
    Questions and Answers (PDF)

  • Fatality Review of Deaths of Infants, Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs Guidance

    Fatality Review of Deaths of Infants, Children and Youth with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs Guidance (PDF)

  • Data Driven Strategies for Drowning Prevention

    This webinar will highlight three settings in which many drownings occur – in and around the home; swimming pools; and open bodies of water. Age, gender, and race vary considerably according to each of these settings. Prevention strategies for each of these settings will be discussed. Fatality review data has been instrumental in shaping our understanding of fatal drownings.

    Webinar (passcode: Drowning)
    Slides (PDF)
    Questions and Answers (PDF)
    Dangerous Waters: Profiles of Fatal Childhood Drownings in the U.S. 2005-2014, June 2016 (PDF)
    Keeping Kids Safe in and Around Water Report, Exploring Misconceptions that Lead to Drowning, July 2016 (PDF)

  • Preventing Suicide: The Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s Effective Prevention Model

    The goals of this webinar were to explain the importance of a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention, describe 3 key elements of effective prevention, identify how to the SPRC’s website to connect with state youth suicide prevention leads and locate key resources for planning and implementing a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention in states and communities.

    Webinar (passcode: Suicide)
    Slides (PDF)
    Questions and Answers (PDF)

  • Improving Child Abuse and Neglect Fatality Reviews

    This webinar focuses on providing examples of how to use Child Abuse & Neglect reporting tools as well as describing how data collected in the National Fatality Review-Case Reporting System can help track and identify systems gaps related to abuse and neglect fatalities. Additionally, participants will receive the written guidance and tool kit as well as other resources aimed at improving the quality of reviews as well as improving the effectiveness of their review system.

    Webinar (passcode: CAN)
    Slides (PDF)
    Child Maltreatment Fatality Reviews Guidance (PDF)

  • Child Maltreatment Fatality Reviews Guidance

    Child Maltreatment Fatality Reviews: Learning Together to Improve Systems That Protect Child and Prevent Maltreatment (PDF)

  • Using Population data to complement fatality review data: An overview of CDC WONDER and Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR)

    Fatality review includes information often not available through routine quantitative methods. Population data, such as vital statistics, are frequently used to complement fatality review findings. This presentation will include a demonstration of the CDC WONDER, an integrated information and communication system for public health developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The webinar will also introduce participants to Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) is a comprehensive approach to help communities use data to reduce infant mortality.

    Webinar (passcode: Population)
    Slides (PDF)
    Questions and Answers (PDF)
    Hand Out (PDF)
    About CDC WONDER (PDF)

  • Using Fatality Review to Understand Disasters

    Protecting children during a natural disaster, outbreak, mass fatality event or other disaster takes careful planning. Fatality review teams play a critical role in shaping preparedness plans and understanding community, state and federal responses after an event.

    Webinar (passcode: NCFRP)
    Slides (PDF)

  • Pregnancy and Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Natural disasters, pandemic diseases, and disasters of human origin disrupt daily life for everyone, but pregnant persons are particularly affected due to unique health concerns. This webinar includes strategies for keeping pregnant women and families safe and to gain information on resources available to protect those who are the most vulnerable.

    Webinar (passcode: NCFRP)
    Slides (PDF)