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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Safe sleep for a new generation. That was the title and message of a day-long conference at the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center in Syracuse Wednesday.

The workshop, presented by the Onondaga County Child Fatality Review Team, featured presentations by a certified child abuse pediatrician and members of the medical examiner's office. Those on hand learned the proper ways to put an infant to sleep as well as what to avoid to make their sleeping environment safer.

While this isn't the first conference to focus on this issue, organizers hope it will hit home.

"I think we haven't educated people effectively. I think we don't go far enough in explaining what we mean by safe sleeping environment for children. And these deaths, the unsafe sleep deaths, are preventable," said Christine Larkin of the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center.

The conference went beyond explaining the importance of telling parents that babies need to sleep on their backs.

For more information, visit www.onondagachildfatalityreview.com.