​The Kansas Infant Death and SIDS Network, Inc. serves those individuals who have been touched by the tragedy of infant death or SIDS and those individuals or organizations who strive to reduce the risk of infant deaths by providing supportive services, community education, professional training, and supporting associated research.

The KIDS Network was established as a 501(c) 3 July 31, 1998.

23rd Annual Susan E. Bredehoft Candle Light Memorial sponsored by the Ruth Spooner Stone Charitable Trust
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 1:30pm
The Hudson Venue, 508 S. Commerce In Wichita, KS

The Susan E. Bredehoft 23rd Annual Candle Lighting Memorial at the Hudson will feature poetry, a memorial slideshow, candlelighting and music. Parents, family members and friends are welcome to attend. 

If you are unable to attend the event, please light a candle in recognition of all children have died too soon.

​When the usual scaffolding of our lives has been dismantled, when the comforting routines that sustain us have all but disappeared, then ritual and ceremony become vital nourishment, perhaps as never before.  ​~Fabiana Fondevila

Safe Sleep Strategy

Safe Sleep Instructors educate parents/caregivers, child care providers, health care providers, and other community members about safe sleep practices. Instructors are taught to serve as the voice for safe sleep by promoting it through standardized training and community outreach.

The Importance of Safe Sleep

Five bereaved mothers explain why Safe Sleep is important. Hear the stories of how they transformed their grief. Dedicated in loving memory of: Juanita Calderon-Cordoba, Luke David Nelson, Clayton Glenn Vath, Padraig Clayton Randolph, and Maxton Burkey.