Five years ago NACCHO published the Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding Support Blueprint. More than 45 counties and communities have since put it to work. Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities presents alongside NACCHO, the Black Mothers' Breastfeeding Association in Michigan, and the Augusta University Research Institute in Georgia. Three very different places, applying the same […]
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 […]
Black Breastfeeding Week closes out National Breastfeeding Month every year, August 25 through 31. The organizers plan the week, set the theme, and publish the events and resources that go with it. Go to them. That is where the week lives and they are the ones who built it. Celebrate it locally. These […]
Love Anderson, co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities, presents for the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership and the West Virginia Breastfeeding Institute. Breastfeeding is one of the most powerful and cost-effective child survival interventions we have. It is also one of the easiest for a community to leave entirely to individual mothers, as though it […]
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 […]
