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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260923
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SUMMARY:National Breastfeeding Month
DESCRIPTION:For our readers\, National Breastfeeding Month lasts all year. Every day is National Breastfeeding Month when this is your work. \n  \nAugust is when the rest of the country joins us. \n  \nIt is a transformative month for this organization. We come out of every August with new framing and new ideas that carry us through the next eleven months. It is also exhausting. Most of us have something on the calendar every single day\, and we push hard. \n  \nSo let this month fuel you. See the joy in it. Choose progress over perfection.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/national-breastfeeding-month/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:National,Observances
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260808
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260815
DTSTAMP:20260725T125118Z
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Milk Medicine Week
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Milk Medicine Week is led by the Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective. \n  \nThe 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. \n  \nObserve the week\, and bring what you learn back into your own community.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/indigenous-milk-medicine-week/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:National,Observances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260814T130000
DTSTAMP:20260725T121101Z
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SUMMARY:Baby Cafe Chat: Building Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities
DESCRIPTION:Love Anderson\, co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities\, joins Baby Cafe USA for their August Cafe Chat. \n  \nBaby 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\, and they see it everywhere at once. \n  \nThis is an internal meeting of the Baby Cafe USA network and is not a public event. Baby Cafes themselves are free and open to anyone. You can find one near you at babycafeusa.org.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/invited-training-baby-cafe-usa-site-leaders/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities,National,Trainings
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260822
DTSTAMP:20260725T125347Z
CREATED:20260725T125347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260725T125347Z
UID:6899-1786752000-1787356799@breastfeedingcommunities.org
SUMMARY:Asian American\, Native Hawaiian\, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week
DESCRIPTION:AANHPI Breastfeeding Week is led by the Asian Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Task Force. \n  \nThe 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. \n  \nCelebrate it with them\, and carry what you learn into your own work.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/asian-american-native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-breastfeeding-week/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:National,Observances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T153000
DTSTAMP:20260725T114823Z
CREATED:20260725T114823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260725T114823Z
UID:6880-1787148000-1787153400@breastfeedingcommunities.org
SUMMARY:NACCHO Webinar: Five Years of the Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding Support Blueprint
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nBreastfeeding 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 framework\, learning different things. \n  \nWhat we will actually talk about is the unglamorous part: how you get a health department\, a community organization\, and a hospital to hand a family off to one another without dropping them. \n  \nOpen registration.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/naccho-webinar-five-years-of-the-continuity-of-care-in-breastfeeding-support-blueprint/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities,National,Webinars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T173000
DTSTAMP:20260726T123553Z
CREATED:20260726T123553Z
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UID:6998-1787587200-1787592600@breastfeedingcommunities.org
SUMMARY:BFFC Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThat 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 minutes of hearing directly from one of them is worth more than anything we could write about them. \nEach meeting includes short five-minute rotating updates from partner communities and projects. We just need to know who wants the slot. Send yours to newsletter@breastfeedingcommunities.org\, or reach us through the contact form. An update can be one image\, one Google Slide\, or a few written sentences. Tell us if you would like to join virtually when your update is shared. \nIf you would rather we built the slide for you\, from a recent self-assessment\, a photo\, or a short note\, say so and we will. That is not a lesser option. Send what you have.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/bffc-board-meeting-2/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities,Meetings,National
ORGANIZER;CN="Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities":MAILTO:newsletter@breastfeedingcommunities.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTSTAMP:20260725T140243Z
CREATED:20260725T140243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260725T140243Z
UID:6902-1787616000-1788220799@breastfeedingcommunities.org
SUMMARY:Black Breastfeeding Week
DESCRIPTION:Black Breastfeeding Week closes out National Breastfeeding Month every year\, August 25 through 31. \n  \nThe 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. \n  \nCelebrate it locally. These national weeks exist to be taken up in your own community\, and everything you need to do that is already published.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/black-breastfeeding-week/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:National,Observances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T130000
DTSTAMP:20260725T115123Z
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UID:6883-1787832000-1787835600@breastfeedingcommunities.org
SUMMARY:Building Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities: A Child Survival Strategy
DESCRIPTION:Love Anderson\, co-founder of Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities\, presents for the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership and the West Virginia Breastfeeding Institute. \n  \nBreastfeeding 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 were a private decision made in a private room. \n  \nThis session is about what changes when a whole community decides otherwise: when employers\, childcare\, healthcare\, and local government each take up the part of this that belongs to them. \n  \nCE/CME and IBLCE L-CERPs approved. Open registration.
URL:https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/event/building-breastfeeding-family-friendly-communities-a-child-survival-strategy/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities,National,Webinars
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