When a hurricane, flood, or long power outage hits, the youngest members of a community are often the most vulnerable, and the easiest to overlook. Feeding a baby safely can suddenly become very hard. But it doesn’t have to be left to chance.
Our partners on the SAFE Team have built a practical IYCF-E County Policy Adoption Toolkit to help counties plan ahead, so that infant and young child feeding is written into local emergency plans before disaster strikes. It’s designed for the people who make preparedness real in a community: local governments, health departments, emergency managers, and the neighbors who show up when it counts.
If you help shape how your community prepares, this one is worth a look. You can read the full toolkit right on the page, download it, or grab an editable Word template to adapt into your own county’s policy.
Because a breastfeeding family friendly community is one that plans for every family, including in the hardest moments.