Training for Durham Home Visitors

SAFE Infant Feeding in Micro-Emergencies.

Love Anderson and Rachel Fann are training Durham’s home visitors and direct service staff on infant feeding in micro-emergencies. The Breastfeed Durham team is delivering it.

SAFE is the national IYCF-E implementation of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. BFFC is the blue skies strategy, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is everyone’s business. This is the gray skies work, for the days that strategy gets tested.

Most emergencies are small. A house fire, an eviction, a power cut, a breakdown on the highway with a cooler of milk in the back. They do not make the news and they do not activate an emergency operations center, but they separate a baby from their feeding plan just as effectively as a hurricane does. The people who catch them are home visitors, and they are usually already in the house.

This is a closed session for Community Advisory Board core partners — DBNC staff and volunteers, Healthy Families Durham, and Family Connects Durham — along with Early Head Start home-based staff. Supervisors and program managers should forward the invitation to their teams and send headcounts to Derek Uejo.