Center for Infant and Child Loss

Center for Infant and Child Loss For 50 years CICL have provided grief support, education, training, outreach to bereaved families

The Center for Infant & Child Loss, formerly the Maryland Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Information and Counseling Program, was established in 1975 by the State of Maryland to comply with the mandates of the SIDS act of 1974. The Center is a program within the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, working in partnership with UMMS and Division of Neonatology and funded, in part, by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), Center for Maternal and Child Health. The Center for Infant & Child Loss, Maryland's Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Program, is housed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The Center receives a grant from DHMH that funds approximately 35% to 40% of the annual operating budget. The fundraising efforts and donations received cover 60% to 65% of the annual operating budget. The Center depends heavily on donations to continue serving families at a time of incredible need and vulnerability. The Center’s premier golf event covers roughly 1/3 of the Center’s operating budget annually. The Center is a Maryland statewide program designed to be family oriented and community based, and to assure a compassionate response in the sudden and unexpected death of an infant or child. The purpose of the Center is to assist families to learn to live with the loss of their child and have hope for the future.

These two amazing moms personified Partying for a Purpose. We continue to send the pink and blue friendship bracelets to...
11/12/2025

These two amazing moms personified Partying for a Purpose. We continue to send the pink and blue friendship bracelets to bereaved families in loving memory of your children. Thank you Stephanie and Cody. 🩷💙

CICL work with hospital emergency rooms across the state making Bears (Empty Arms Project) available for families experi...
11/03/2025

CICL work with hospital emergency rooms across the state making Bears (Empty Arms Project) available for families experiencing the sudden and unexpected death of their child. They received a 🐻 along with CICL contact information. Hospital Labor & Delivery units are offered blankets (Breelyn’s Blanket Brigade) for families whose infant has died. Families receive a handmade blanket🧶 along with CICL contact information.
Thank you Sharon and family for the years you hosted a fundraiser supporting this project that continues today.
Thank you Summer and family for all the beautiful handmade blankets made with so much love.
Special projects, for special people, created by special families.
Hospitals interested in our bears or blankets contact us at caring@som.maryland.edu.

That other trailblazing mom who advocated and created a law in Maryland which will save lives. Thank you Patrice 💙
10/29/2025

That other trailblazing mom who advocated and created a law in Maryland which will save lives. Thank you Patrice 💙

10/24/2025
Another one of our trailblazing moms.
10/23/2025

Another one of our trailblazing moms.

First the Maryland House of Delegates now the Governor’s Office. 🩷💙 Recognizing 50 years of CICL
10/21/2025

First the Maryland House of Delegates now the Governor’s Office. 🩷💙 Recognizing 50 years of CICL

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