Website: http://www.chawisconsin.org/cdr.htm

Tools

• Wisconsin CDR Resource Page
• The Burden of Injury

• Wisconsin First Annual Report, A Window into Prevention - 2010

• Wisconsin Child Mortality Data, 2002
• Wisconsin Child Mortality Data, 2003
• Wisconsin Child Mortality Data, 2005
• Wisconsin Child Mortality Data, 2006
• Wisconsin Child Mortality Data, 2007

Wisconsin’s Child Death Review (CDR) Program was established in 1999. There are no statutes or rules promulgated for CDR in Wisconsin. The state CDR team is housed within the Department of Health Services with partial funding through the Department of Justice, the Children’s Justice Act grant program. Wisconsin is a member of the Midwest Coalition on Child Fatalities.

Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin is a three year grant funded by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Wisconsin Partnership Program. This grant was awarded to Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin in collaboration with the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin strives to develop local CDR teams in Wisconsin counties, support legislation for CDR activities, and increase data collection and analysis. Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin: Child Death Review Team Guidelines provides counties with step by step assistance on how to organize and implement a CDR team. Additional technical assistance related to data collection and prevention is also available to teams.

1. Advise the legislature and state agencies on the need for modifications to law, policy or practice.
2. Educate the public regarding the incidence and causes of child deaths, and specific steps the public can take to prevent future deaths.
3. Identify training needs and make training resources available to professional organizations, advocacy groups and others statewide.
4. Facilitate the development of local/regional CDR teams.

Local CDR teams acknowledge and review all deaths to children under the age of 18. CDR teams are encouraged to follow the model proposed in Keeping Kids Alive in Wisconsin: Child Death Review Team Guidelines. This model is based on the Maternal Child Health (MCH) National Center for Child Death Review framework.

Wisconsin also has Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) teams. These teams are located in the cities of Milwaukee, Racine and Madison. A Maternal Mortality Review process is in place statewide. All Wisconsin review teams are working toward increasing communication and collaboration.