Child death review team guidelines
Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin - A useful guidebook based on the national Child Death Review (CDR) model that provides information on setting up a CDR team, conducting reviews, brainstorming prevention ideas and much more.

Each county needs a child death review (CDR) team to:

• Better understand how and why children die, ensuring policies and programs related to child health, safety, and protection are evaluated and changed if necessary.
• Share information to ensure all the contributing factors of a child’s death are identified and discussed.
• Provide residents with best-practice information related to child heath, safety and protection.
• Demonstrate the county's commitment to keeping kids alive.

Model for Wisconsin
Local/regional CDR teams will be established as multidisciplinary teams to review all child death cases and share information among team members. The scope of the team’s work will focus on three areas: investigation, services, and prevention.

Child Death Review Council
In 1998 the State Department of Justice created the Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT), which is now known as the Child Death Review Council (CDRC). Membership to the CDRC is appointed by the Attorney General. The goal of the state CDRC is to reduce preventable childhood deaths by gathering information on unexpected deaths and using the information to:

1. Advise the State Legislature.
2. Educate the public.
3. Identify training needs and resources.
4. Facilitate the development and support of local teams.

Information gathered by local child death review teams is shared with the state CDRC in order to address issues plaguing multiple counties or regions.

Common CDR team members
These individuals are responsible for responding to child deaths or for protecting the health and safety of children. A CDR team should always have representatives from the following agencies or professions:

• Law enforcement
• Child protective services
• Prosecutor/district attorney
• Medical examiner/coroner
• Public health
• Pediatrician, family health provider or pediatric nurse practitioner
• Emergency medical services

Data
The Alliance recommends all child death review teams input data into the National Center for Child Death Review, Child Death Review Case Reporting System. This internet-based case reporting system documents the risk factors and circumstances surrounding the death of a child. Allowing local child death review teams to holistically view the deaths of their children. When local teams input their information into the Child Death Review Case Reporting System, consistent and accurate statewide data is obtained.

Resources for teams

• Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin - CDR team guidebook.
• Local Child Death Review Teams and contact information -
  Active Child Death Review Teams in Wisconsin.
• Deaths of Wisconsin children under age 18 listed by county.
• Injury-related deaths for Wisconsin children under age 18 listed by county.
• Webinar - being an effective leader.

Child Death Review Summit - Nov. 3-4, 2011
Why death review matters and prevention works

• CDR: A national perspective, Linda Potter
• Why FIMR? Murray Katcher, MD, PhD
• CDR 101: Starting a new team, Karen Ordinans
• Conducting effective reviews of sleep related deaths, Kathy Stromberg and Mark Hahn
• Conducting effective reviews of homicide deaths, Paula Brown, MSW and Lynn Sheets, MD
• Conducting effective reviews of natural deaths, Amy Shiel, MD
• Conducting effective reviews of poisoning deaths, David Gummin, MD and Cathy Smith

Child Death Review Summit - Nov. 11-12, 2010
Keeping Kids Alive through Prevention

• Working with the media, Karen Ordinans
• Celebrating success, Abby Collier, MS
• Principles of injury prevention, Gary Smith, MD, DrPH
• Understanding the Impact of CDR participation, Jo Camarata, MSW, LCSW and Nicole Schwerman, MA
  
  

Child Death Review Summit - Oct. 9, 2009
Best Practices in Prevention and Legislation

• Celebrating success, Abby Collier, MS and Amy Schlotthauer, MPH
• National scope: child death review activities, progress and goals, Teri Covington, MPH
• Child death review legislation: proposed model for Wisconsin, Karen Ordinans and Charity Eleson
• Catalyzing prevention, Timothy E. Corden, MD
• Influencing community action: prevention recommendations, Bridget Clementi
• Prevention checklist

CDR team training - Jan. 29, 2009
Creating a CDR team

• Implementing a CDR team, Abby Drew
• Collecting and reporting CDR data, Amy Schlotthauer, MPH and Rebecca Turpin, MA

CDR team training - Nov. 13, 2008
10 elements of a highly effective team

• Identifying risk factors related to preventable deaths, Timothy Corden, MD
• Summary of CDR activities in Wisconsin, William Perloff, MD
• History and progression of CDR activities in Wisconsin, William Perloff, MD
• 10 elements of a highly effective CDR team, Teri Covington, MPH

Child death review team training materials - 2007

• Overview of Wisconsin's CDR Program, William Perloff, MD
• CDR in Wisconsin: Rationale, Goals and Progress CDR,
  Teri Covington, MPH
• Organizing a Team, Teri Covington, MPH
• The Review Meeting, Teri Covington, MPH
• Using Reviews to Prevent Other Deaths, Teri Covington, MPH
• Other Types of Reviews, Teri Covington, MPH
• A Practice Review, Teri Covington, MPH
• Reporting your Findings, Teri Covington, MPH
• Using the National Center for CDR, Teri Covington, MPH