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.