For our readers, National Breastfeeding Month lasts all year. Every day is National Breastfeeding Month when this is your work. August is when the rest of the country joins us. It is a transformative month for this organization. We come out of every August with new framing and new ideas that carry us […]
Workplace Lactation Week is sponsored by Healthy Horizons. They publish substantial free resources for employers building lactation support, which is usually the hardest part of this work to move in a community. Go look at what they have. Celebrate it locally. Use the week to move one employer where you are.
Semana de la Lactancia Latina is organized by the Union de Lideres de Lactancia Latino. They plan the week, they build the resources, and they publish a week of things to do. Their work supporting Spanish-speaking families is far better than anything the rest of us could assemble on our own. Go to their page […]
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Breastfeeding Week is organized by the DC Breastfeeding Coalition. Universal access is not an add-on to this work. A family who cannot get information in the language they actually use is a family we have not served, and this week names that plainly. Follow their page and use what they […]
Our board meets on the fourth Monday, and we open every meeting the same way: with a partner community telling us what they are working on. That is the part we protect. The board has business to do, but the reason this organization exists is the communities doing the Ten Steps where they live. Five […]
Brandi Harrison, Jayne Carpenter, and Love Anderson are on the Day Two panel at the 6th Appalachian Breastfeeding Conference. SAFE is the national IYCF-E implementation of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. If BFFC is the blue skies strategy, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is everyone’s business, SAFE is the gray skies […]
The US Breastfeeding Committee owns this constellation. The SAFE Infant Feeding Team facilitates it. SAFE is the national IYCF-E implementation of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. If BFFC is the blue skies strategy, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is everyone’s business, SAFE is the gray skies strategy, for the days that […]
Our board meets on the fourth Monday, and we open every meeting the same way: with a partner community telling us what they are working on. That is the part we protect. The board has business to do, but the reason this organization exists is the communities doing the Ten Steps where they live. Five […]
The SAFE Team convenes S3C quarterly for the people doing infant and young child feeding in emergencies work on the ground: the ones writing the plans, sitting on preparedness committees, and answering the phone when the water goes out. SAFE is the national IYCF-E implementation of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. If BFFC is the […]
Ashley Mickelson and Love Anderson are presenting at the IAEM 74th Annual Conference and EMEX, which is the room where the country’s emergency managers actually are. SAFE is the national IYCF-E implementation of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities. If BFFC is the blue skies strategy, the slow work of building communities where feeding a baby is […]
