Training of Trainers for Mother-to-Mother breastfeeding support groups
Author: Linkages
Year: 2003
Resource type: Training
Contents: The purpose of this course is two fold: to train community health workers to facilitate infant feeding mother-to-mother support groups and to train trainers of community health workers in the methodology for facilitating mother-to-mother support groups related to infant feeding.
May be useful to do in a longer term emergency.
Time for training: Ten days.
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Linkages (2003). Training of Trainers for Mother-to-Mother breastfeeding support groups. www.ennonline.net/bftot
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