Nourishing Resilience # 8 – Homework

Session 8 – Homework Summary

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1. Review Handouts

Everything for this session is listed below. New marks a handout you have not seen before; Shared earlier means it appeared in an earlier session.

• Site Exit Poster: Safe Infant Feeding Supply Distribution Shared earlier
• Site Exit Poster: Safe Infant Feeding Tips for Families Shared earlier
• Resources for Organizations & Recovery Sites Shared earlier
• Site Rapid Triage & Needs Assessment Worksheet New
• CASICAs y Pares — Volunteer Voices from ASI New
• SAFE Support and Strategic Core (S3C) Meetings New

2. Start Looking for Your Core Response Team

Explore who might be willing to be part of your core group if/when an emergency occurs. Look to your local breastfeeding coalition, birth network, lactation professional organizations, or other groups of perinatal professionals. A great place to connect is other people in your state who are registered for this training series (ask us!), and our quarterly S3C meetings.

• Make a list of some potential people and reach out to them. Let us know if you want to connect with other trainees in your state.
• Find out who is willing to consider it. They do NOT need to commit at this time. 
• Ensure that you trade contact info and store it in your phone contacts AND somewhere you could access another way.
• Include phone number and physical address as well as email and any socials you contact them through.

3. Teach Someone Some IYCF-E Essentials

Teach someone the basics about IYCF-E, why it is important, & a basic RNA.

Possible people to teach:

• Staff or a volunteer at one of the organizations you have volunteered with
• Another lactation professional, CB pro, public health professional
• Community influencers in areas with need.

Remember – you can always revisit the recordings of this training series, or reach out to us at 828-809-3301 or safe@infantfeeding.org to discuss customized training & support.

4. Start Considering Possible Initial Meetup Locations

Don’t wait until a disaster strikes to decide how to connect with other infant feeding specialists in your area. Once you have even one person who may be willing to help in an emergency, or who you want to check in with/on if one occurs, set up one or more possible meeting locations. 

A possible approach would be to make an arrangement such as: “If a disaster or emergency occurs that disrupts usual communication, on the 3rd day after it stops, let’s try to meet _________ around noon if it is safe to do so.”

Suggestions: 

• Agree on a timeline that gives enough time for everyone to have secured their own safety and allows for long travel time and possibly not having an available clock.
• Set parameters on the conditions that should be met for people to try to meet up in person.
• Agree on a back-up location in case the primary location is inaccessible.
• Decide how to approach no-shows – will you send someone to check on them?

5. Complete the Evaluation

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