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Resource Category: FIMR

Fetal & Infant Mortality Review

Recognizing and Responding to Vicarious Trauma in Fatality Review

Fatality review is hard work, and team members may frequently participate in difficult reviews about deaths. This exposure, whether one time or repeated over time, can bring about symptoms of vicarious trauma. The webinar will identify what vicarious trauma is, how to recognize it, and how to respond to it. Speakers will include CDR program representatives and an expert in vicarious trauma.

Webinar (passcode: VT)
Slides from Webinar (PDF)
Guidance for CDR and FIMR Teams on Addressing Vicarious Trauma (PDF)

2025/06/12
Guidance for CDR and FIMR Teams on Addressing Vicarious Trauma

Guidance for CDR and FIMR Teams on Addressing Vicarious Trauma (PDF)

2025/06/12
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)

2025/06/12
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)

2025/06/12
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)

2025/06/12
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)

2025/06/12
Child Maltreatment Fatality Reviews Guidance

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

2025/06/12
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)

2025/06/12
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)

2025/06/12