Action Plan on Infant Nutrition in Saskatoon

1
Action Plan on Infant Nutrition in Saskatoon
ADVOCACY
SUSTAINABLE SUPPORT

• Policy Work
• Ensuring the Right to Food
• Encouraging Breastfeeding friendly and Baby
  friendly initiatives

EMERGENCY SUPPORT

• Mothers Centre
• Bulk Buying
• Community Breast pump depot
• Improved ward support
  and information

• Emergency Formula
• Human milk bank

CHEP good food inc Community plan developed 2007
2
Tier Three Advocacy for System Support

• Advocacy
• Advocate for a commitment from various levels of
  community and government to create a community
  that is safe and provides adequate support for
  all babies.
• Ensuring the right to food
• Advocate for the right to food to be recognized
  for all members of the community, particularly
  infants and toddlers.
• Encouraging Breastfeeding and Baby Friendly
  initiatives
• Encourage those initiatives that support
  breastfeeding such as Baby Friendly workplaces
  and Baby Friendly public spaces.

3
Tier Two long-term Sustainable Support

• Bulk buying
• Organize monthly bulk buying of formula to allow
  families to stretch their budget and ensure that
  they will have enough formula for the month.
• Mothers centres
• Establish drop-in mothers centres where moms can
  connect with and support one another.
• Breast pump library
• Create a breast pump library in our neighborhood
  so moms who cannot afford to buy their own can
  borrow a breast pump.
• Ward support
• Support the education needs of maternity ward
  nurses and staff to ensure that all moms receive
  post-partum support.
• Appropriate and accessible information
• We have created and are distributing an emergency
  infant support brochure to improve knowledge of
  existing resources.

4
Tier One Short Term Support

• Emergency infant foods
• We have sponsored two community sites to act as
  emergency infant food depots.
• We are working with the food bank improve formula
  distribution abilities.
• Human milk bank
• Partner with Public Health and Breastfeeding
  Matters to promote the creation of a place where
  babies can access donated human milk.

5
Update one year later

• Development of concise resource handout (900
  mailing costs by DSS on two occasions)
• Meeting with Social Services to advocate for
  greater awareness of formula subsidy
• Provision of subsidized good food boxes to
  families on SAP delivered to door (9700)
• Provision of funds for emergency formula (3800)

6
Update from others

• Investigate breast pump library discussions but
  no follow through at this time
• Advocacy for more lactation consultants and peer
  consultants and other breastfeeding support
• Several meetings about Mothers Centre
• Follow up on experience of low income moms led
  to vitamin D distribution program (3500)

7
.
8
(No Transcript)