Recorded Jan 11, 2017 — Julie Tanaka, MPH, MBA, Senior International Nutrition Advisor for Samaritan’s Purse presents “Breastfeeding in Limited-Resource Settings: What Every Clinician Needs to Know.” Presented in partnership Christian Connections for International Health.
In her role as Senior International Nutrition Advisor, Julie helps field offices with nutrition surveys and training, program design, proposal review, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and emergency relief. Julie graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Development Studies and Loma Linda University with a Masters in Public Health and Masters in Business Administration. Julie previously lived and worked in China and Haiti, and worked for a Christian Mission Agency and for World Vision before joining Samaritan’s Purse.
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The Breastfeeding Counseling Training Course from WHO is good resource with helpful graphics for the breastfeeding section of your IYCF training.
UNICEF created generic IYCF counseling cards and a key messages booklet that provide excellent visual aids (flip charts, key messages, etc.) to use in most IYCF counseling programs. These may need to be translated into local languages. Also, pictures of people, clothing, and foods may need to be adapted for local culture and context.
UNICEF also provides additional programmatic resources that provide a complete IYCF counseling package to complement the UNICEF counseling cards and key messages booklet above.
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