N.C. Child Fatality Prevention Team
Mission Statement
The North Carolina Child Fatality Prevention Team seeks to identify and reduce preventable child fatalities through:
- systematic, multidisciplinary, and multiagency reviews of child fatalities,
- data-driven recommendations for legislative and public policy initiatives,
- assisting local teams,
- interdisciplinary training, and,
- promotion of community-based prevention education.
Reports and Other Documents
- Child Fatality Annual Report 2022 08/02/2024
- Child Fatality Data Overview, 2021-2022 05/28/2024
- 2022 Spotlight on Infant Death 08/02/2024
- Medical Examiner Child Toxicology Report - 2021 11/16/2023
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2021 Report - 08/14/2023
- Navigating the Acronyms of Infant Deaths in North Carolina - 05/25/2023
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2020 Report (PDF, 908 KB) - 02/14/2022
- 2021 Spotlight on Infant Death (PDF, 428 KB) - 07/06/2023
- 2020 Spotlight on Infant Death (PDF, 357 KB) - 11/30/2021
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2019 Report (PDF, 1.1 MB) - 03/25/2022
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2018 Report (PDF, 594 KB)
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2017 Report (PDF, 617 KB)
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2016 Report (PDF, 257 KB)
- NC CFPT Executive Summary of 2014 Child Deaths in NC (PDF, 97 KB)
- NC CFPT Toxin Report, February 2013 (PDF, 288 KB)
- NC CFPT ATV Report, February 2013 (PDF, 184 KB)
- Drowning Report, September 2012 (PDF, 283 KB)
- Hyperthermia Report, June 2012 (PDF, 69 KB)
- Child Emergencies with Fatal Outcomes in North Carolina: The Response and Role of Emergency Medical Services (PDF, 203 KB)
- Guidelines for Physicians, Hospitals and Medical Examiners on Infant and Child Deaths (PDF, 77 KB) (Updated July 2011)
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2007 Report (PDF, 537 KB) (Updated July 2009)
- Fatalities of Children in North Carolina: 2005 Report (PDF, 142 KB)