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SUMMARY:Every Day is Someone's Emergency: Infant and Young Child Feeding Safety in Disasters and Daily Practice
DESCRIPTION:Melinda Delisle and Corey Graywood are presenting at the NCPHA Fall Educational Conference on behalf of the SAFE Infant Feeding Team. 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. If BFFC is the blue skies strategy\, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is everyone’s business\, SAFE is the gray skies strategy\, for the days that work 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://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/every-day-is-someones-emergency-iycfe-safety-in-disasters-and-daily-practice/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites Concord\, 5400 John Q Hammons Dr NW\, Concord\, NC\, 28027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Presentations,SAFE Infant Feeding,Statewide
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SUMMARY:When the System Stops: Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies in Appalachia
DESCRIPTION:Brandi 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. If BFFC is the blue skies strategy\, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is everyone’s business\, SAFE is the gray skies strategy\, for the days that work 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://breastfeedingcommunities.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,SAFE Infant Feeding
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SUMMARY:2026 Art of Breastfeeding Conference: Lactation Hot Topics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2026 Art of Breastfeeding: Lactation Hot Topics conference\, a dynamic educational program designed for healthcare professionals who support breastfeeding and lactating families. This year’s conference will explore emerging clinical issues\, ethical considerations\, and evidence-based approaches through expert presentations\, interactive panel discussions\, case studies\, and practical application. Building on the conference’s tradition of providing current\, skills-focused lactation education\, attendees will gain knowledge and strategies that can be applied immediately in clinical practice. \nTopics for 2026 include: \n• GLP-1 Medications and Lactation: Examine the growing use of GLP-1 receptor agonists from both medical and nutritional perspectives\, including indications for prescribing\, mechanisms of action\, potential risks and side effects\, and evidence-informed nutrition support for lactating patients. Interactive case studies and panel discussions will provide opportunities to address real-world clinical questions. \n• Re-Lactation and Induced Lactation: Explore the medical\, practical\, and emotional aspects of helping families establish or re-establish milk production. Sessions will highlight both healthcare provider and lactation consultant perspectives\, followed by a panel discussion focused on clinical application and patient support. \n• Level Up on the WHO Code!: Strengthen your understanding of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes through an engaging and interactive session designed to help participants recognize and address common ethical challenges in practice. \n• Oh\, The Pain! Evidence-Based Assessment and Management of Nipple Pain: Review evidence-based approaches to the assessment and management of nipple pain\, with emphasis on improving patient comfort and breastfeeding outcomes. \n• Ethically Using Generative AI: Discover the opportunities and challenges of incorporating generative artificial intelligence into healthcare and lactation practice while maintaining ethical standards\, professional responsibility\, and patient-centered care. \nWhether you are a physician\, nurse\, lactation consultant\, dietitian\, therapist\, or other healthcare professional working with breastfeeding families\, this conference offers timely updates\, interdisciplinary perspectives\, and practical tools to enhance your clinical practice and improve outcomes for the families you serve. \n*For brevity\, the term “breastfeeding” and “lactation” will be used in written materials and by speakers\, however\, it is understood to include all possible ways of providing human milk to infant
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/2026-art-of-breastfeeding-conference-lactation-hot-topics/
LOCATION:The McKimmon Conference & Training Center\, 1101 Gorman St\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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SUMMARY:The Invisible Infrastructure: Securing First Food in the Wake of Hurricane Helene
DESCRIPTION:Ashley 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. If BFFC is the blue skies strategy\, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is everyone’s business\, SAFE is the gray skies strategy\, for the days that work 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. \nRegistration and the full program are on the IAEM conference site.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.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,SAFE Infant Feeding
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