We’re pausing our month-long series commemorating late maternal child health advocates for another important observation: #NationalNativeAmericanHeritageMonth. https://lnkd.in/giTGKvCq
Healthy Children Project | Center For Breastfeeding
Individual and Family Services
Harwich, MA 1,778 followers
Improving health outcomes through education, collaboration, consulting and research.
About us
Mission Healthy Children Project's Center for Breastfeeding is a non-profit research and educational institution dedicated to increasing child health outcomes. Company Overview Through its Center for Breastfeeding, Healthy Children is the largest national provider of lactation management education for health care providers. More than 3,000 health providers, advocates and facilitators are educated annually through more than 80 offerings across the United States. These include five-day courses, certificate courses, workshops, seminars, self-study modules, national and international conferences. Educational offerings are held at hospitals, Women, Infant and Children (WIC) Programs, health department training facilities, colleges, and other locations suitable for adult education. Continuing education units are available to registered dietitians, registered nurses, and internationally board-certified lactation consultants through long-term provider agreements. Healthy Children faculty are leaders in the field who are recognized for their evidence-based scholarship as well as their clinical experience. Healthy Children Project is most well-known for our Lactation Counselor Training Program. There are more than 13,000 certified lactation counselors in the US working in hospitals, health departments, and private practice.
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- Individual and Family Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Harwich, MA
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 1993
- Specialties
- Lactation Counselor (CLC) certification program, Evidence-based scholarship, Clinical Experience, and Educational Materials
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159 Long Pond Drive
Harwich, MA 02645, US
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We'd love to see you at the 2025 Symposium at Sea, departing from Boston, MA (round-trip)! Registration is open. Earn up to 38 contact hours! https://lnkd.in/ef9_3Fys
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As a part of our month-long celebration of late maternal child health advocates, this week we remember someone especially near and dear to Healthy Children Project, Lois D.W. Arnold, PhD, MPH, ALC. https://lnkd.in/eRfxNfSP
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This month, we're honoring late maternal child health advocates. If you'd like to remember someone, please email us at info@ourmilkyway.org. https://lnkd.in/eqspzEzh
Lives and legacies of late maternal child health advocates: Dr. Audrey Naylor - Our Milky Way
ourmilkyway.org
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Friends! We'd love to know your favorite children's books and stories that depict breastfeeding. #normalizebreastfeeding https://lnkd.in/ex82zB_W
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In celebration of #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2024, Healthy Children Project is offering a fifth round of Accessing the Milky Way scholarships for the Lactation Counselor Training Course. The deadline to apply is August 7. https://lnkd.in/eFFu9_JW
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This week we have another Where are they now? installment on 'Our Milky Way'. Here's a snippet from Lucy Ellen Towbin, LCSW: "New mothers need so much emotional support. They don’t need people to take care of the baby. Bringing food and running errands for them is helpful. But I think what gets overlooked is how much they need to be told that they’re going to make it, that they will survive this early period of no sleep, and not knowing if they are doing a good job. They need reassurance that this difficult time is normal and they need to be told they will get through this." https://lnkd.in/ebba3TM5
Where are they now? Catching up with Lucy Ellen Towbin, LCSW - Our Milky Way
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The call for stories is still open! Please send your reflections to info@ourmilkyway.org with “Light Bulb” in the subject line. https://lnkd.in/eidcWQFH
Jess Fedenia's, CLC light bulb moment: "Life is full of ands instead of either ors." - Our Milky Way
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The commercial milk formula industry targets healthcare providers because they understand providers' influence on parents’ decisions. A group of leading healthcare professional associations is compiling case studies, references, guidance on how to manage without sponsorship, and more to help any associations in ending such sponsorship. This effort is NOT a restriction on parental choice. All healthcare providers must support parents in what is best for their families. It is the inappropriate marketing of commercial milk formula that interferes with parents getting accurate information to make decisions. #endexploitativemarketing https://lnkd.in/dgQNpdef To learn more about the industry's tactics, check out the Lancet's 2023 series here ---> https://lnkd.in/ecSRDRub
Call to end sponsorship from commercial milk formula companies
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