Infant Safe Sleep Ambassador Training Set for July 21 in Pasadena

A Safe Sleep Ambassador training is scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, from 11 a.m. to noon at Elizabeth House, 559 N. El Molino Ave. in Pasadena, according to Councilmember Justin L. Jones’s District 3 newsletter.

Safe Sleep Ambassador programs train parents, caregivers and community members in infant safe-sleep practices aimed at preventing sleep-related infant deaths.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends practices such as placing babies on their backs to sleep and keeping cribs clear of soft bedding. Safe Sleep Ambassador programs generally award participants a certificate on completion so they can share the safe-sleep message within their communities.

The training is set to take place at Elizabeth House, a Pasadena nonprofit founded in 1994 that provides shelter and support to pregnant and parenting women.

According to the organization, Elizabeth House operates as a transitional maternity program serving women 18 and older in the San Gabriel Valley and runs a Center for Mother & Child Wellbeing that offers counseling, classes and attachment-and-bonding sessions for mothers and children. 

The session comes as local health officials continue to press safe-sleep messaging. In a statement marking Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month in October 2025, the Pasadena Public Health Department urged caregivers to follow what it calls the ABCs of Safe Sleep: babies should sleep Alone in their own crib in the same room as a parent or caregiver, always be placed on their Back for every sleep including naps, and rest in a Crib on a firm, flat surface covered only by a fitted sheet. The department also advised against bed sharing and cautioned that a sofa or armchair should never be used for infant sleep.

According to the department’s statement, Pasadena has recorded fewer than 10 sudden unexpected infant deaths over the past ten years. Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted about 3,700 such deaths in the United States in 2022, the department said. It described most sudden unexpected infant deaths as preventable.

For more information on the July 21 training, call (626) 577-4434.