Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Trainings (IYCF-E)

Everything we teach is here, in one place. Five ways in, depending on what you actually want to do.

Everything we teach lives on one page. Five ways in, depending on what you need:

What you need	Where to go
I want to learn it myself	Watch on your own time — eleven recorded Nourishing Resilience sessions, free, with handouts and homework.
I want to attend something live	Join a live training — upcoming dates, the North Carolina series, and the quarterly S3C call.
What else is worth taking?	Trainings we recommend — good training made by other people, including FEMA preparedness courses and the VOAD networks.
I saw you speak and want the materials	Where we’ve taught — past workshops and presentations, with slides and toolkits.
Come and train my staff	Bring us to your community — custom packages and technical assistance.

1 · Watch on your own time

Recorded, free, and yours to use. No registration and no date to make.

Sessions 1–5 are posted. Editing runs about three months behind each live session, so the most recent sessions show their handouts and homework while the recording is still in production — and go up here as they are finished. If you attended live, the Zoom recording is already in your email.

What you need	Where to go
I want the whole curriculum	Nourishing Resilience — eleven recorded sessions, each with handouts, homework and an evaluation. Start at session one or go straight to the topic you need.
I only need one topic	Every session stands alone. The series index lists all eleven with what each one covers.
I need to train other people	Session 8 — Teaching Volunteers & Site Staff and Session 9 — Managing On-the-Ground Response. Both are built for the person who has to teach and run it, not just do it.
I want something short to show a group	Trauma-Informed Care in IYCF-E is a ten minute film on what trauma-informed care looks like in practice. Made for the IFE Core Group, filmed here in North Carolina, free and subtitled, with discussion questions to use after it.

2 · Join a live training

Ours, with a date. Some run virtual and some in person, depending on what the audience needs.

What you need	Where to go
What is coming up?	Upcoming trainings on the calendar — dates, registration and format for each one.
I am in North Carolina	North Carolina Trainings 2026 — our current state series, delivered virtual or in person.
I want ongoing support, not a course	SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C) — a free quarterly call for people putting IYCF‑E into practice. Register once and you are on the list for every session.

3 · Trainings we recommend

Not ours. Training produced by other organisations that we attend, or that we think is worth your time. Each one names who made it.

What you need	Where to go
Becoming a breastfeeding family friendly community	From Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. Training videos for communities starting the BFFC designation journey. breastfeedingcommunities.org
Emergency management, from the people who run it	From FEMA and partners. Disaster-preparedness training that gets you into the wider emergency-management world and meets common training requirements. firstrespondertraining.gov and TEEX MGT-439. To speak the language first, read Learning the Language of Emergency Management.
The coalitions that coordinate a response	From VOAD and partners. Not training as such — these are the networks you join so infant feeding has someone at the table. National VOAD, NC VOAD, and the National Pediatric Disaster Coalition.

Know a training that belongs here? Tell us about it.

4 · Where we’ve taught

Every conference workshop, presentation and training we have delivered — with the slides, toolkits and handouts that went with it. If you sat in one of these and want the materials, this is where they live.

What you need	Where to go
I saw you speak somewhere	Past trainings and talks — browse by date to find the session you attended.

We are working through the back catalogue attaching slides and toolkits to each entry. If you need materials from a session that does not have them yet, ask us and we will send them.

5 · Bring us to your community

When a recording is not enough and you want us in the room, virtually or in person.

What you need	Where to go
Train my staff on what they actually do	Custom training packages — built for a specific organisation, staff type and the time you have available, from a lunch hour to a full day.
We need more than training	Technical assistance and capacity building — help standing up the work, not just teaching it.
Let us talk about it	Get in touch and tell us who needs training and what they do.

In a disaster right now, or want the full picture of what we offer, including free support for unfunded coalitions? See Services.

Looking for handouts and printable resources rather than training? Those live under Resources.

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