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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260801
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SUMMARY:World Breastfeeding Week
DESCRIPTION:World Breastfeeding Week is hosted by WABA\, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. \nIt was a call to action from WABA that started the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. That framework is what SAFE implements when the weather turns. This week is where our whole line of work begins. \nIt is easy to let an awareness week pass\, and easier still in emergency response\, where the work is measured in deployments and not in observances. But these calls to action\, and the accountability that comes with them\, are the reason any of this is anybody’s business. Take the week. \nWABA publishes a full week of materials and a call to action each year. Follow their lead\, and celebrate it where you are.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/world-breastfeeding-week/
CATEGORIES:National,Observances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260804T143000
DTSTAMP:20260726T105122Z
CREATED:20260726T105122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T105122Z
UID:7203-1785848400-1785853800@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C)
DESCRIPTION:We convene S3C quarterly for the people doing this work on the ground: the ones writing the plans\, sitting on preparedness committees\, and answering the phone when the water goes out. \nSAFE 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. \nAn emergency does not wait for a community to figure out how babies will be fed. This is where we work through what is actually happening where you are\, what is stuck\, and what the rest of us have already learned the hard way. \nCome with foundational IYCF-E knowledge from training\, coursework\, or response experience. Registration required.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/safe-support-and-strategic-core-s3c/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,National
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T113000
DTSTAMP:20260726T122607Z
CREATED:20260726T115741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T122607Z
UID:7217-1790589600-1790595000@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:Training for Durham Home Visitors
DESCRIPTION:SAFE Infant Feeding in Micro-Emergencies. \nLove 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. \nSAFE 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. \nMost 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. \nThis 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.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/safe-infant-feeding-in-micro-emergencies/
LOCATION:Center for Child and Family Health\, 1121 W Chapel Hill St\, Durham\, NC\, 27701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Durham,Trainings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T170000
DTSTAMP:20260726T122627Z
CREATED:20260726T120407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T122627Z
UID:7233-1790868600-1790874000@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:Presenting at the North Carolina Public Health Association Conference
DESCRIPTION:Every Day is Someone’s Emergency: Infant and Young Child Feeding Safety in Disasters and Daily Practice. \nMelinda Delisle and Corey Graywood are presenting at the NCPHA Fall Educational Conference. It is a joint workshop of the Emergency Preparedness and Response section and the Women’s and Children’s Health section\, which is the whole point. Those two rooms do not meet often enough. \nSAFE 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. \nThe conference theme this year is From the Mountain to the Coast: Public Health for all North Carolinians. This state’s public health workforce is the room this has to land in. Emergency infant feeding is not a specialty topic in North Carolina anymore. After Helene it is a job description. And the title says the rest of it: the house fire on a Tuesday counts too. \nThe Fall Educational Conference runs September 30 through October 2 at the Embassy Suites Convention Center in Concord. Registration and the full agenda are on the NCPHA website.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/every-day-is-someones-emergency-infant-and-young-child-feeding-safety-in-disasters-and-daily-practice/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites Convention Center Concord\, 5400 John Q Hammons Dr NW\, Concord\, NC\, 28027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Presentations,Statewide
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T122647Z
CREATED:20260726T120548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T122647Z
UID:7238-1791637200-1791640800@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:Presenting at the Appalachian Breastfeeding Conference
DESCRIPTION:When the System Stops: Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies in Appalachia. \nBrandi Harrison\, Jayne Carpenter\, and Love Anderson are on the Day Two panel at the 6th Appalachian Breastfeeding Conference. \nSAFE 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. \nAppalachia has already lived this. When the roads wash out and the power stays off for a week\, the formula supply chain and the lactation support system fail at the same time\, and the families furthest up the holler feel it first. Every emergency plan we have seen assumes someone else is handling the babies. This session is about what a community can put in place before the water rises. \nRegistration and the full program are on the Appalachian Breastfeeding Network website.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/when-the-system-stops-infant-and-young-child-feeding-in-emergencies-in-appalachia/
LOCATION:Oglebay Park Resort\, 465 Lodge Dr\, Wheeling\, WV\, 26003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,National,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261014T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T105449Z
CREATED:20260726T105449Z
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UID:7210-1791982800-1791986400@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:USBC Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Constellation
DESCRIPTION:The US Breastfeeding Committee owns this constellation. We facilitate it. \nSAFE 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. \nConstellations are how USBC does collective work. Member organizations commit to a shared piece of the national agenda and meet over time to actually move it. Facilitating the infant and young child feeding in emergencies constellation means this conversation now has a permanent home inside the national coalition instead of living in a handful of people’s inboxes. \nParticipation is open to US Breastfeeding Committee member organizations. If your organization is a USBC member and you want a seat at this table\, contact USBC for an invitation. If you are not a member yet\, that is the first step\, and it is worth taking.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/usbc-infant-and-young-child-feeding-in-emergencies-constellation/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,National
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261027
DTSTAMP:20260726T122426Z
CREATED:20260726T115858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T122426Z
UID:7221-1792972800-1793059199@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:Poster at the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative Summit
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Fann is presenting a poster at the 2026 VNPC Annual Summit\, the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative’s tenth. \nSAFE 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. \nThe summit theme is 10 Years of Impact: Learning\, Improving and Sharing\, and it puts community and clinical providers in the same room — which is exactly where this work has to travel. Virginia is not our state\, and that is the point. What we learned in North Carolina after Helene stops being useful the moment it stays in North Carolina. \nThe summit runs October 25 and 26 in Richmond. Registration is through VCU\, and the venue has not been announced yet.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/2026-vnpc-annual-summit/
CATEGORIES:Conferences,National,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T143000
DTSTAMP:20260726T105244Z
CREATED:20260726T105244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T105244Z
UID:7207-1793710800-1793716200@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C)
DESCRIPTION:We convene S3C quarterly for the people doing this work on the ground: the ones writing the plans\, sitting on preparedness committees\, and answering the phone when the water goes out. \nSAFE 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. \nAn emergency does not wait for a community to figure out how babies will be fed. This is where we work through what is actually happening where you are\, what is stuck\, and what the rest of us have already learned the hard way. \nCome with foundational IYCF-E knowledge from training\, coursework\, or response experience. Registration required.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/safe-support-and-strategic-core-s3c-2/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,National
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260726T122739Z
CREATED:20260726T120731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T122739Z
UID:7243-1794232800-1794236400@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:Presenting at the International Association of Emergency Managers Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Invisible Infrastructure: Securing First Food in the Wake of Hurricane Helene. \nAshley Mickelson and Love Anderson are presenting at the IAEM 74th Annual Conference and EMEX\, which is the room where the country’s emergency managers actually are. \nSAFE 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. \nHelene showed what happens when the infrastructure that feeds infants is invisible in a plan. It is not a shelter supply line and it is not a medical annex. It is a system of people\, and when it breaks there is no form for it. This session makes the case to emergency managers that first food belongs in the plan before the storm\, not in the after action report. \nThe conference runs November 6 through 12 in Long Beach. Registration and the full program are on the IAEM conference site.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/the-invisible-infrastructure-securing-first-food-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-helene/
LOCATION:Long Beach Convention Center\, 300 E Ocean Blvd\, Long Beach\, CA\, 90802\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,National,Presentations
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
DTSTAMP:20260726T120007Z
CREATED:20260726T120007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T120007Z
UID:7225-1794960000-1795391999@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:SAFE Team Retreat
DESCRIPTION:We are together in person this week. The team arrives ahead of the Nurse-Family Partnership presentation on the 19th and heads home Sunday. \nSAFE 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. \nThis is an internal working retreat\, not a public event. We are listing it so you know we will be slow to answer that week. A team that spends the year inside other people’s emergencies has to take a few days to plan its own work on purpose.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/safe-team-retreat/
CATEGORIES:National,Team Retreats
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261120
DTSTAMP:20260726T122812Z
CREATED:20260726T120145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T122812Z
UID:7228-1795046400-1795132799@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:Presenting to North Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Home Visitors
DESCRIPTION:The Calm in the Chaos: Protecting Infant Nutrition from House Fires to Hurricanes. \nThe full SAFE Team is at Wrightsville Beach for this one. Norma Escobar is presenting for the North Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership Community of Practice. \nSAFE 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. \nNurse home visitors are often the only person who lays eyes on a family in the days after a house fire or a flood. That is the point of this session. Most of the emergencies that separate a baby from their feeding plan are small and local and never make the news\, and the people who catch them are already in the home. \nThis is a session for the North Carolina Nurse-Family Partnership community of practice. Session time to be announced.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/the-calm-in-the-chaos-protecting-infant-nutrition-from-house-fires-to-hurricanes/
LOCATION:Wrightsville Beach\, 1 Bob Sawyer Dr\, Wrightsville Beach\, NC\, 28480\, United States
CATEGORIES:Presentations,Statewide
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260726T105625Z
CREATED:20260726T105625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260726T105625Z
UID:7214-1796821200-1796824800@safeinfantfeeding.org
SUMMARY:USBC Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Constellation
DESCRIPTION:The US Breastfeeding Committee owns this constellation. We facilitate it. \nSAFE 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. \nConstellations are how USBC does collective work. Member organizations commit to a shared piece of the national agenda and meet over time to actually move it. Facilitating the infant and young child feeding in emergencies constellation means this conversation now has a permanent home inside the national coalition instead of living in a handful of people’s inboxes. \nParticipation is open to US Breastfeeding Committee member organizations. If your organization is a USBC member and you want a seat at this table\, contact USBC for an invitation. If you are not a member yet\, that is the first step\, and it is worth taking.
URL:https://safeinfantfeeding.org/event/usbc-infant-and-young-child-feeding-in-emergencies-constellation-2/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,National
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