Announcing an exciting breakthrough for SIDS awareness! The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Information Web Site on the World Wide Web! This wonderful source of information can be found at: http://sids-network.org How can you help? Tell people about this Internet resource - call, fax, announce during meetings, place information in newsletters, e-mail, Internet discussion groups and news groups, etc. Who should I tell? Your family, friends, business associates, other organizations, government leaders, hospitals, health care providers, support group attendees, the media, first responders, funeral directors, schools, colleges, day care providers, etc. Everyone needs to learn more about SIDS. Will it work? Within 24 hours of putting the Web site in place, the following e-mail was received, "Please tell me about the network. I just lost my baby to SIDS, and I am devastated." It think that message speaks for itself... Within four weeks of putting the Web site in place, we were communicating with people around the world! The SIDS Information Web Page was viewed over 5,000 times by about 1000 individuals, professionals, SIDS management, medical, educational, and commercial institutions from Canada, Switzerland, Iran, Australia, and within the United States, Maryland, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, California, Washington, District of Columbia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and other areas. Several active projects for future growth of the SIDS Information Web Site have resulted from those communications. This is truly a SIDS Network of people working together! What's Next? Using the World Wide Web as a vehicle to make SIDS information available opens unlimited possibilities. With over 30 million people world wide who have access to the Internet, our use of the SIDS Web Site is limited only by our imagination. The next immediate step for improving the SIDS Web Site is to complete the establishment of a way to allow people to discuss SIDS issues. This is called a List Server, and it should be operating in September. A List Server is the 90's version of the old Bulletin Board Services (or BBS's). Once you register onto a List Server, you will automatically receive new postings via your e-mail address. Then you can respond to or post a new message. Then everyone else you is registered onto the List Server will then receive your posting via their e-mail addresses. Its like a live newsletter. It finds you when their is new information. What Can I Do? We need translations of the SIDS Information Home Page, Facts About SIDS page, and Reducing the Risks page, into other commonly used languages. SIDS does not care about the language you speak, so we should make the SIDS Web Site information available to those who do not speak English. We need stories about the countless aspects of SIDS and its impact on our lives. These stories can be from the perspective of your family, friends, business associates, other organizations, government leaders, hospitals, health care providers, support group attendees, the media, first responders, funeral directors, schools, colleges, day care providers, etc. E-mail us and share any other ideas! This World Wide Web page is a vehicle to make information about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, available to the millions of people who use the "information highway". This page will grow and evolve as we progress up the learning curve together. Your patience, understanding, and contributions to this page will make it grow into a true network of people and information dedicated to stopping SIDS, the number one killer of infants between the ages of one month and one year. Visit this page as soon as you can to see what is available. We encourage honest, constructive feedback to make this area as useful as possible. Please e-mail any articles, suggestions, ideas, and comments to sidsnet1@sids-network.org. The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Information Home Page on the World Wide Web was produced, and will be maintained by volunteers of the SIDS Network, Inc., an all volunteer, non- profit SIDS full service provider. The SIDS Network headquarters is located in Ledyard, Connecticut. Thanks! Chuck Mihalko, President July, 1995 SIDS Network 9 Gonch Farm Road Ledyard, Connecticut 06339 USA email: sidsnet1@sids-network.org Web Site: http://sids-network.org 800-560-1454 - voice 860-887-7309 - fax