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Mitigating Risks – Donations; Safer Formula Feeding

This third training session focuses on identifying and reducing risks related to infant and young child feeding in emergencies, with an emphasis on water safety, sanitation, and managing donations. Participants work through a scenario to apply practical skills for supporting caregivers who face unsafe water, limited resources, and mixed feeding. The session reviews how to clean and sanitize feeding and pumping equipment in challenging conditions, explores common barriers families encounter, and discusses the broader needs that must be addressed to support safe feeding. It also covers how unsolicited donations can create significant risks, how to communicate effectively with communities about safer alternatives, and how predatory marketing can undermine emergency feeding efforts. The goal is to help responders provide clear, safe guidance while minimizing harm.

Thanks to the Jon Stickley Trio, an Asheville area band, for generously donating the use of their music. “Scripting the Flip” and “Della’s Walk” (c) Jon Stickley Trio. www.JonStickley.com

Recorded Live: Nov. 11, 2025

Topics with time stamps:

0:00:00 – Introduction
0:05:49 – Scenario Review and Skill Application
0:10:42 – Practicing & Reviewing Water Safety Essentials
0:15:20 – Cleaning and Sanitizing Feeding and Pumping Equipment
0:23:05 – Bleach degradation and sanitation
0:26:25 – Risks of well-meaning donations
0:33:54 – Safe Feeding Hierarchy
0:38:53 – Mitigating Risk – Managing Commerical Infant Formula
0:46:50 – Mitigating Risks at Sites – Practice & Other Issues
0:52:42 – Working at and with Sites
0:58:23 – Interacting with Media
1:03:40 – Interacting with Researchers
1:06:04 – Sponsors, Homework
1:11:35 – Q&A

Session 3 homework

Full instructions, with everything you need for each step, are on the homework page. The handout is the same material as a printable PDF.

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This work is free because these people and organizations paid for it.

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Provides technical assistance to breastfeeding coalitions and health departments across the US, using the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. The SAFE Team is a project of BFFC.

In memory of Elsie Perry

Elsie Perry was a founding mother of La Leche League Boston in the 1960s. A gift made in her memory by her daughters funded an eleventh month of this training series.

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