Shaken Baby Alliance Information

The Shaken Baby Alliance’s mission is threefold: to provide support for victim families and professionals, to provide education for the prevention of child abuse and elder abuse, and to provide justice for the innocent victims of child abuse. In 1994, Bonnie Armstrong made a promise to her shaken daughter Tiffany as she lay in ICU at Cooks. If she would breathe, Bonnie would make good come of evil. Both kept their promises. The Shaken Baby Alliance was born. Bonnie is the Executive Director. Tiffany is now 22, with a seizure disorder that causes her to have 20-30 seizures per minute. She happily volunteers weekly at the Fort Worth Animal Shelter, and participates in Special Olympics. Since 1998, we have provided support to over 250 victim family members per year, trained over 5000 high schoolers in how to deal with a crying baby and SIDS risk reduction, and provided advanced forensic investigation training and child abuse prevention training to over 1,500 professionals each year. Additionally, we provided over 150 case consultations during 2015, with the numbers increasing each year. In 2011 we were asked by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to expand our training programming to develop curriculum related to crimes against the elderly and people with disabilities. This was a natural progression for our forensic training programs since children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities are all the same–vulnerable victims. There are no other agencies providing the focus or interrelated services of the Shaken Baby Alliance. The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome in Utah is committed to prevent shaken baby syndrome and promote the well-being of infants generally through the development and implementation of programs, policy and research. Shaken Baby Syndrome resource groups are scattered nationwide. No one provides the allied core services of Family Support, Training and Case consultation as does the Shaken Baby Alliance.