Nourishing Resilience

Welcome to the SAFE Team’s comprehensive training series. This program equips healthcare providers, first responders, and community advocates with the skills to support Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E).

IYCF-E Training Modules & Resources

Click a session title to view the recording and materials. Each session has its own homework page with that week’s handouts and action steps. Sessions build on each other, but you can watch them in any order.

Session	Topic	Homework
Session 1	History, Mindset, Rapid Needs Assessment, Stress	Homework 1
Session 2	Rapid Needs Assessment Practice, Safe Water	Homework 2
Session 3	Mitigating Risks — Donations; Safer Formula Feeding	Homework 3
Session 4	Mitigating Risks — Families with Babies & Kids Under 3	Homework 4
Session 5	Creating Safer Congregate Areas	Homework 5
Session 6	Kit Details, Advanced Skills, Support	Homework 6
Session 7	Preparing Resilient Communities Pre-Disaster (part 1)	Homework 7
Session 8	Teaching Volunteers & Site Staff	Homework 8
Session 9	Managing On-the-Ground Response	Homework 9
Session 10	Preparing Resilient Communities Pre-Disaster (part 2)	Homework 10
Session 11	Influencing Policies for Better Preparedness	Homework 11

These recordings are free to use in your own community under our Open Source Use Agreement. The agreement covers the recordings; some slides shown in them belong to the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute and are not ours to license.

Join Us for Ongoing Support

Though the live, interactive sessions are done, you can join us for our virtual SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C) group for ongoing support in advancing concerns around infant and young child feeding in all kinds of emergencies.

Thanks to our sponsors

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

Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation

A private family foundation dedicated to supporting charitable organizations that align with its mission of giving back. Grants are made only as a result of the Foundation’s own initiative.

Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities

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.