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 […]
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities provides technical assistance to the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition as we pilot the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. Working in local municipalities taught us something important. There are things a local community simply cannot do on its own. Some change has to happen at the state level. […]
World Breastfeeding Week is hosted by WABA, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. It was a call to action from WABA that started the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. Our whole framework began as an answer to this week. It is easy to let a week like this pass, to […]
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 […]
Friends of the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition gather during National Breastfeeding Month. Most of this work happens on a screen. A Zoom square, a shared document, an email thread that never quite ends. This is the part where you find out who the other people actually are. The relationships that carry a coalition […]
