Health, Community Leaders Share Progress Of Effort To Reduce Black Child Deaths In Sacramento County.
The leaders of seven nonprofit groups explain their motivation for being involved in the problems they see in their neighborhoods affecting the rising number of black youth deaths.
Hospitals in Sacramento County give cribs to mothers of newborns to help address sleep-related child deaths.
Tragically, in Sacramento County African American children die at very disproportional rates, two times the rate of other children.
The work to save the lives of African American children in the Sacramento region continues to gather steam, with the selection of the final community-based group that will join the effort.
Sacramento County has launched an education campaign to try to stem the number of African American children dying in their sleep. Renée Walker lost two children to sleep-related deaths before turning to a nonprofit for support.
A new committee promises to reduce the high number of African-American child deaths in local neighborhoods.
African American children are dying in Sacramento County at more than twice the rate of white children and about three times the rate of Latino and Asian youths. More than a third of black child deaths occur in the womb or the first weeks of life.
Local organizations join together to help reduce the number of black child deaths in Sacramento.