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SAFE Team – Infant Feeding in Emergencies
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    • Prepare before a disaster
      • Setting Up Local Infant and Young Child Feeding Emergency Preparedness
      • Does Your Emergency Plan Account for Infants?
      • Creating a Resource List for IYCF-E Connections
      • Learning the Language of Emergency Management
      • Creating a Resource List
      • Nourishing Resilience 7
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      • How Much Formula to Stock
      • Nourishing Resilience 1
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      • Sanitation Kit Guide
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      • Trauma-Informed Response
      • When Donated Milk Shows Up
      • Feeding Children 6 Months to 3 Years in an Emergency
      • Medications and Breastfeeding in an Emergency
      • Why Every Family Needs a SAFE Infant Feeding Kit
      • Nourishing Resilience 6
      • Nourishing Resilience 3
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      • Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Trainings
      • SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C)
      • Learning the Language of Emergency Management
    • Advocate for policy change
      • IYCF-E County Policy Adoption Toolkit
      • What to Bring to Your Next Advocacy Conversation
      • Clarifying SAFE’s Position on Donations in Emergencies
      • The International Code — What It Means for Your Response
      • Promoting IYCF-E As Our Climate Changes
      • Nourishing Resilience 11
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We Are “One Organization”

News, Public Spotlights, Resources / Love Anderson

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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Collage of SAFE Team volunteers and families from the Voices from the Storm series

One Cloth, Many Hands

Voices from the Storm / Love Anderson

Now that Nourishing Resilience is over, I feel sad. I still feel wounded, still hurt, still carrying the trauma of where all this began. And I feel not done. The

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We filmed it where I nursed my own babies

SAFE Team Activities, Trainings / Love Anderson

Ten days, no budget, a doll standing in for the baby, and a film that went out to thirty countries.

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New Study Confirms Infant Feeding Is Missing From State Emergency Plans

News, Research / The Safe Team

“It Validates Our Experience in Sciency Words” In July, a link landed in the SAFE Team’s chat with four words from Norma Escobar, SAFE Team Clinical Director: “Hot off the

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The ROI of Breastfeeding Support – Better Than Business?

Uncategorized / Melinda Delisle

If human milk feeding were a type of financial investment, you wouldn’t be able to keep investors out of it. The World Health Organization (WHO), in connection with the Global

The ROI of Breastfeeding Support – Better Than Business? Read More »

Experience with New Hanover County Disaster Coalition Command Center Simulation

Uncategorized / Melinda Delisle

On June 23, Norma Escobar, Clinical Director for the SAFE Team, proudly joined the New Hanover Disaster Coalition for a comprehensive command center simulation designed to streamline coordinated responses when

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US & Worldwide Breastfeeding Celebrations & IYCF-E

Uncategorized / Melinda Delisle

August is a month of celebrating human milk feeding. Around the world, from many diverse groups, messages and education focus on the importance of human milk for human babies, and

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Could WIC Help Solve the IYCF-E Gap? New WIC Policy Analysis

Guidance, News, Research / The Safe Team

Tomori’s new research paper: bring it with you to your next advocacy conversation. Dr. Cecília Tomori, one of the SAFE Team’s research partners at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of

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IYCF-E Policy Toolkit

Resources / The Safe Team

Put infant feeding in your county’s emergency plan before disaster strikes. When communities prepare for emergencies, the needs of infants and young children are too often an afterthought. Yet during

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Formula Recall Watch

Guidance, News, Research / The Safe Team

New June 2026 botulism cases and what the CDC learned from the November 2025 outbreak. New Recall: Infant Botulism Outbreak Linked to Powdered Infant Formula In June 2026, the CDC

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COMMUNITIES STAY ABREAST!

  • We Are “One Organization”
  • One Cloth, Many Hands
  • We filmed it where I nursed my own babies
  • New Study Confirms Infant Feeding Is Missing From State Emergency Plans
  • The ROI of Breastfeeding Support – Better Than Business?
  • Experience with New Hanover County Disaster Coalition Command Center Simulation
  • US & Worldwide Breastfeeding Celebrations & IYCF-E
  • Could WIC Help Solve the IYCF-E Gap? New WIC Policy Analysis
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Upcoming Events

  • Aug1
    August 1 - August 7 World Breastfeeding Week
  • Aug4
    1:00 pm - 2:30 pm SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C)
  • Sep28
    10:00 am - 11:30 am Training for Durham Home Visitors
  • Oct1
    3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Presenting at the North Carolina Public Health Association Conference
  • Oct10
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Presenting at the Appalachian Breastfeeding Conference
  • Oct14
    1:00 pm - 2:00 pm USBC Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Constellation
  • Oct26
    All day Poster at the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative Summit
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