We are excited to schedule this networking event for Breastfeeding Advocates who live and work in Chatham County and/or Orange County to expand on the work that the Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities team already started in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Join with Google Meet meet.google.com/nkk-tabw-axm Join by phone (US) +1 352-509-5521 (PIN: 224230185) Learn about […]
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 […]
Indigenous Milk Medicine Week is led by the Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective. The Collective plans the week, chooses the theme, and puts together a full slate of sessions and materials. Go to them. They are doing this work and they are the ones to learn it from. Observe the week, and bring what […]
Love Anderson, co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities, joins Baby Cafe USA for their August Cafe Chat. Baby Cafes do something most systems cannot. They put skilled lactation support in a room where families already are, free and drop-in, with no appointment and no referral. The people who run them see what breaks first, […]
AANHPI Breastfeeding Week is led by the Asian Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Task Force. The Task Force plans the week, sets the theme, and publishes the full slate of sessions and materials. Their page is where the week actually lives. Celebrate it with them, and carry what you learn into your own work.
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 […]
