Newborn Screening: Resources

These resources are for parents or caregivers and providers. They have accurate information about newborn screening. Select a link to learn more.

• Baby's First Test, provides information for families and providers about newborn screening.
• The Newborn Screening Story: How One Simple Test Changed Lives, Science, and Health in America (PDF), outlines 50 years of newborn screening in the U.S. The booklet is from the Association of Public Health Laboratories.
• The Parent's Guide to Newborn Screening, answers common questions about newborn screening in Wisconsin. This guide is from the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.
• Save Babies Through Screening Foundation, leads advocacy and media awareness about newborn screening. They work at local, state, and federal levels.
• Wisconsin Newborn Screening Laboratory, promotes and encourages sharing information about newborn screening. This work helps babies born in Wisconsin.
• Wisconsin SHINE, helps provide universal screening for critical congenital heart disease. The pilot project is through the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and the State of Wisconsin.
• Wisconsin Sound Beginnings, supports and promotes newborn hearing screenings and follow-up.