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 […]
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities and the SAFE Infant Feeding Team are part of a Photovoice project documenting how families in Western North Carolina fed their babies and young children after Hurricane Helene — told by the people who lived it, through their own photographs.This is a virtual information and recruitment session. Come find out what […]
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities and the SAFE Infant Feeding Team are part of a Photovoice project documenting how families in Western North Carolina fed their babies and young children after Hurricane Helene — told by the people who lived it, through their own photographs.This is a virtual information and recruitment session. Come find out what […]
Melinda Delisle and Corey Graywood are presenting at the NCPHA Fall Educational Conference on behalf of the SAFE Infant Feeding Team. It is a joint workshop of the Emergency Preparedness and Response section and the Women’s and Children’s Health section, which is the whole point. Those two rooms do not meet often enough. SAFE is […]
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities and the SAFE Infant Feeding Team are part of a Photovoice project documenting how families in Western North Carolina fed their babies and young children after Hurricane Helene — told by the people who lived it, through their own photographs.This is a virtual information and recruitment session. Come find out what […]
