Claire Bear Foundation
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Claire Bear Foundation is to enhance infant safety and reduce infant mortality through education and outreach regarding safe sleep practices; offer comprehensive family support; and address disparities in race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors to reduce the incidence of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death through both direct and indirect services.
About This Cause
We provide portable cribs, sleep sacks, and pacifiers for families with a financial need across the United States. We are a very proud Cribs for Kids partner! Unfortunately, we also know the pain of losing a child. When a loss like this happens, in addition to grief and sorrow, there are unplanned expenses related to funeral costs or medical bills. The Claire Bear Foundation also provides financial bereavement support to families to try and help ease this burden. We offer support to other organizations who also focus on child safety, preventing Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID), and giving our all to helping families. The Claire Bear Foundation are thankful to provide funds to nonprofits like MultiCare. There is a Claire Raphael Training Room at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital that has infant and child-sized simulation mannequins and provide some of the most up-to-date simulation training for CPR, intubations, and intraosseous cannulation. This is one of the only community hospitals in the state that have this type of training opportunity for medical personnel. With the hospital expanding to a stand-alone children’s hospital in Tacoma, we are hoping to also expand the simulation room! In addition to the training room, the Claire Bear Foundation will continue to support Bridges Center for Grieving Children, just as Bridges supported our family after losing Claire. In an effort to help prevent financial barriers from becoming obstacles for infant safety, we will continue to be a resource for Mary Bridge's Center for Childhood Safety and provide families a portable crib and sleep-related items at no cost. And we can’t forget about the annual Claire Whitten Raphael Scholarship. Each year, a scholarship is given to a high school senior from Foss High School in Tacoma, WA. We want recipients to land more softly in college, and to be someone who embodies how we feel Claire truly was: kind, sweet, giving, strong, loving, and determined. We believe that Claire’s contributions continue in seen and unseen ways, and we know that everything about her is founded on love and hope. This scholarship is given in that love and hope. The Claire Bear Foundation is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Safe Infant Sleep Collaborative, sits on the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department's Infant Fatality Review Panel, and is an ASTM committee member, setting national safety standards for infant products.