Session 7 – Homework Summary
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Here is the whole assignment, step by step. Jump straight to any step below, or download the identical material as a printable handout.
- Review Handouts
- Learn Your Community’s Breastfeeding Baseline Statistics
- Work on the 10 Steps to a Breastfeeding-Friendly Community Self-Assessment
- Continue (or Start) your Resource List
- Complete the Evaluation
- Handouts, Links & Resources
Finished? Complete the session evaluation.
1. Review Handouts
Everything for this session is listed below. New marks a handout you have not seen before; Shared earlier means it appeared in an earlier session.
Handout list
- Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities — 10 Steps Overview New
- Breastfeeding Baseline for IYCF-E & the 10 Steps New
- 10 Steps to a Breastfeeding-Friendly Community — Self-Assessment New
- Resource List Guide for IYCF-E Connections New
- Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities New
- CDC Breastfeeding Report Card New
- WIC Breastfeeding Data New
- Ready, Set, Baby New
- Medicaid Coverage of Breastfeeding Support & Supplies New
- National Breastfeeding Month Celebrations New
Each name jumps to its card in Handouts, Links & Resources below.
2. Learn Your Community’s Breastfeeding Baseline Statistics
Knowing where things stand is essential for planning and seeing progress as you move forward. Use this worksheet to gather that data.
3. Work on the 10 Steps to a Breastfeeding-Friendly Community Self-Assessment
Use these questions to evaluate your community’s status on the 10 Steps to a Breastfeeding Family-Friendly Community.
4. Continue (or Start) your Resource List
Most organizations serving low-resource people will still operate after an emergency. Start compiling a list of these organizations that would be great referral partners during an emergency. While you are searching, look for the emergency services and disaster planning organizations and contacts that serve your area. See more details here.
Complete the Evaluation
To track your attendance and help us improve, please complete the short evaluation as soon as you can. It is how we verify your attendance for the certificate of completion at the end of the series.
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Handouts, Links & Resources
New this session
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities — 10 Steps Overview
The ten steps a community works through to become breastfeeding family friendly. Start here for the shape of the whole framework.
New this session
Breastfeeding Baseline for IYCF-E & the 10 Steps
A worksheet for establishing where your community actually stands today. Knowing the baseline is what lets you plan, and what lets you show progress later.
New this session
10 Steps to a Breastfeeding-Friendly Community — Self-Assessment
Work through each of the ten steps and score where your community sits. This is the tool the homework asks you to complete.
New this session
Resource List Guide for IYCF-E Connections
How to build the list of people and organisations you can call on — and how to keep it current once you have it.
New this session
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities
Tips, guidelines and handouts from the Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities programme.
Questions? Email Contact@BreastfeedingCommunities.org.
New this session
CDC Breastfeeding Report Card
County‑level breastfeeding data from the CDC. This is where you find the numbers for your own community when you fill in the baseline.
New this session
WIC Breastfeeding Data
Breastfeeding rates among WIC participants, from USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
New this session
Ready, Set, Baby
Prenatal education materials from the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, free to download and use.
New this session
Medicaid Coverage of Breastfeeding Support & Supplies
An independent landscape analysis of what Medicaid covers, state by state. Useful when you are making the policy case rather than the clinical one.
New this session
National Breastfeeding Month Celebrations
August is National Breastfeeding Month. The United States Breastfeeding Committee sets the annual theme and the celebration weeks within it, and publishes the artwork and messaging your coalition can use.
Thanks to our sponsors
This work is free because these people and organizations paid for it.
Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation
A private family foundation dedicated to supporting charitable organizations that align with its mission of giving back. Grants are made only as a result of the Foundation’s own initiative.
Breastfeeding Family Friendly Communities
Provides technical assistance to breastfeeding coalitions and health departments across the US, using the Ten Steps to a Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community. The SAFE Team is a project of BFFC.
In memory of Elsie Perry
Elsie Perry was a founding mother of La Leche League Boston in the 1960s. A gift made in her memory by her daughters funded an eleventh month of this training series.
BabyBjörn
Founded in 1961 and still family-owned, with a mission to make everyday life easier for parents with babies. If your community needs emergency baby gear, reach them at care@babybjorn.com.
Confident Pregnancy
Helps people be healthier, feel more confident, and find their inner strength. Tips for staying calmer and more resilient under stress at MelindaDelisle.substack.com. DBA Melinda Delisle Innovations.
Birthstone Center for Appalachian Perinatal Resilience
Strengthens perinatal health in Western North Carolina by centering families, uplifting birthworkers, and advancing equitable access to lactation, doula and maternal mental health support.
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