Never Shake a Baby is a program offered at no charge to local high school and junior high school students, school faculty, day care workers, foster parents, teen pregnancy groups, parenting groups and other organizations.
A CoxHealth representative will spend 50 minutes presenting on the following topics:
- Preventing shaken baby syndrome and abusive head trauma, the deadliest form of child abuse
- The stress of parenting and how to handle prolonged crying
- Immediate and long-term effects on victims and perpetrators.
The goal of the program is to help future parents and caregivers realize the dangers of shaking a child and that child abuse is 100 percent preventable.
Trauma Services offers many additional educational programs. Click here for more information.
For questions, contact our Injury Prevention team at (417) 269-0912.