Suggested guidance for obstetric and neonatal units is now available. The Disaster Preparedness Playbook for Obstetrics and Neonatal Units outlines disaster planning for perinatal patients in healthcare facilities. This tool
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When a family’s emergency is a house fire, a job loss, or a hospital stay, someone still has to care for the kids. The National Emergency Child Care Network offers free emergency child care, and trained volunteers come to the family.
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Read the report first: GAO-26-107790, Disaster Response: Lessons Learned in Supporting Mothers and Young Children On July 28, the U.S. Government Accountability Office published a report on how this country supports mothers
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For emergency managers and planners The toolkit includes an editable policy template and a rapid needs assessment. It is written for adoption inside a health department, which in most North
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For emergency managers and planners The three areas map onto the structure you already run. Governance and partnership is a command and liaison question: who is named, and who reports
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Click Here to Read the Article A new global journalism initiative is drawing attention to the needs of babies and young children during disasters and displacement. Through the REACH Network, reporters
Click Here to Read the Article Members of the SAFE Infant Feeding Team were recently introduced to this article through discussions within the Children and Disasters Subcommittee of the National Voluntary Organizations Active
For emergency managers and planners Print these before the season, not during it. Signage is the cheapest intervention in a shelter and the one most often forgotten at setup, which
A collection of Rapid Needs Assessments (RNAs) to support organizations’ approach to IYCF-E.
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