In December 2020, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Thrive by Five DC and the DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner launched the DC Safe Sleep Education & Outreach Project – in partnership with the Department of Health, Child and Family Services Agency, Department of Human Services, Department of Health Care Finance, and the DC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Funding for this work comes from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.