Community Chronicle

National Breastfeeding Month Edition

2026

Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities

In this Issue

Exciting News

From the halls of power

Resources & Opportunities

Exciting Opportunities for MPH Students
Fully Fund WIC - Senate Action Alert
Two WIC Job Opportunities in Franklin County - Nutritionist and Breastfeeding Peer Counselor. To apply, email a cover letter and resume to Graham Bundy at gbundy@franklincountync.gov.

This Season We Ask:
What Does YOUR POWER Look Like?

Mine is a cape. And when I look closely, it's woven of many threads — the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee's new National Plan, our own Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community, NACCHO's Continuity of Care Blueprint, and every hand that's ever pulled a stitch beside us. No single thread is the whole cloth. Together, they're something I can carry on my shoulders.

That's what National Breastfeeding Month is to me. We can't do everything this month. We can't solve everything, or even read everything. But this month has a way of re-shaping our whole organization, every single year National Breastfeeding Month changes how we show up. So I won't hand you a to-do list. My one hope is that your act of power this month is simply to read.

Everyone Has a Thread: One Cloth, Many Hands — the metaphor behind this whole issue, and where your thread fits in.

Start here

Named a NACCHO Blueprint Peer Ambassador

NACCHO — the voice of the country's 3,300+ local health departments — has awarded $60,000 to three organizations serving as Blueprint Peer Ambassadors, helping local health departments put the Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding Support Blueprint into practice. We're honored that Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities was named alongside the Augusta University Research Institute (Augusta, GA) and the Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association (Detroit, MI) — each bringing community-driven models, clinical–community linkages, and cross-sector partnerships to the work. Together, the ambassadors support health departments across the country through NACCHO's Strengthening Breastfeeding Initiatives Community of Practice, focused on workforce capacity, sustainable partnerships, and community-centered planning.

Read NACCHO's announcement

Fully Fund WIC — Senate action alert

Unless immediate action by Congress is taken, WIC will experience a funding shortfall which will lead to many women and children being waitlisted for the program and/or their benefits being cut. So far both the House and Senate have failed to provide enough funding for WIC to protect eligible women and children who apply for WIC.

Sign The Petition!

Communities Stay aBreast

Everyone Has a Thread: One Cloth, Many Hands

This week the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee fully released its national plan, Nourishing, Thriving Communities: A National Plan for First Foods, Breastfeeding, and Lactation Support through Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change.…