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The Safe to Sleep ® campaign, led by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in collaboration with other agencies and organizations, educates parents and caregivers about ways to protect babies during sleep by reducing the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths. It began in 1994 as the Back to Sleep ...
Profile: Eunice Kennedy Shriver. A fast-paced overview of Eunice's life and pioneering accomplishments, told by her family, a Special Olympics athlete and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela.
Learn about the life and history of Eunice Kennedy Shrive through facts and information collected by John F. Kennedy Museum. Photos included.
Aug 19, 2011 · Eunice Shriver was best known for creating the Special Olympics, an athletic event for people with mental disabilities. Her efforts changed the way the world thinks about the mentally disabled.
Camp Shriver - The Beginning of a Movement. When people speak of the origin of Special Olympics, they look no further than the first Camp Shriver—founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in the early 1960s. They talk of one woman's dream that started in her own backyard. History.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1975. NPG.2011.34, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Diana Walker. Eunice Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on July 10, 1921, the fifth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. Although underweight, frail, and susceptible to illness as a child, Eunice displayed great energy that was rivaled ...
Apr 5, 2007 · Eunice Shriver was the fifth of nine Kennedy children. Edward (from left), Jeanne, Robert, Patricia, Eunice, Kathleen, Rosemary and John stand with their parents, Rose and Joseph Patrick Kennedy ...
