White Plains, NY - Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS) announced that it has received a $10,000 grant from the CJ Foundation for SIDS, the largest, leading SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) organization in the nation.

“The CJ Foundation for SIDS is pleased to provide a grant to this important program,” said Barry Bornstein, Executive Director and CEO of the CJ Foundation.  “We want to ensure that SIDS families across the country have available to them all the resources and support they need. It is our mission to one day eradicate SIDS but until that day we will continue to provide the programs and service that are so specific to this community.”

For information about the WJCS SIDS Education & Support Program or to schedule a risk-prevention presentation, contact Program Director Lenore Rosenbaum, at 761-0600, X308 or This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

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written by NJTOM, July 29, 2008

Some children are born with a rare birth defect in which sleeping on their backs seems to reduce the risk of SIDS by reducing Stage 3 and Stage 4 NREM Sleep (aks Deep Sleep). But what about the vast majority of children who don't have this defect and grow up with a deformed face and have neurocognitive delays?

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