We have been following the progression of the COVID-19 virus and have been discussing how to address its impact on our community. In an abundance of caution, and with the recommendations of both the Governor and the CDC in mind, we have decided to move all of our BreastfeedLA courses, continuing education classes, seminars, RBC meetings, community meetings, and other gatherings online until further notice. We will continue to update you with scheduling changes throughout the coming weeks.
Join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program with your coworkers, friends, and colleagues!
Highlights:
An interactive online experience over 5 days, with each day ending by 2:30 pm to leave space for other work and time to reflect.
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- Preconference offerings Monday, May 6, 2024, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm:
- The Many Measures of Child and Perinatal Health: reducing obesity, overweight, diabetes, and their associated stigmas
- A Mentoring Masterclass (and a bit on being a good mentee)
- Dual-track conference agenda. Tuesday, May 7 – Friday, May 10, 2024. Everything is recorded, so you can go back and watch anything you missed and still receive credit hours.
- Conference Topics areas:
- Leadership & Innovation
- Early Childhood Development / Perinatal Health & Nutrition
- Equity for ALL Families
- Breastfeeding & Human Lactation
- Conference Topics areas:
- We offer CEUs for RNs, RDNs, and IBCLCs.
- A Virtual Trade Show running the full conference week with links to company videos and materials, live chat, and meeting opportunities.
- Popular activities include the trade show scavenger hunt, daily contests, and health and wellness activities.
- Preconference offerings Monday, May 6, 2024, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm:
Questions?
- For attendee registration, please contact Vanessa Garcia at vgarcia@calwic.org.
- For trade show sponsor and exhibitor, please contact Teresa Morris at tmorris@calwic.org.
- For all other questions, please contact Lena Workman at lworkman@calwic.org.
Who is this conference for?
Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs), Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs), Registered Nurses (RNs), Students in nutrition and public health-related studies, WIC professionals, Maternal and Child Health and Social Services Professionals, Community Health Workers (CHWs), Doulas, and Community Partners supporting and nurturing California families.
Conference sessions will be both live and on-demand, with all speakers available for live discussion and online access during their scheduled presentation time. Attendees can also return at a later date and watch all presentations and check out trade show materials on the conference platform until July 10th, 2024.
Attendees: You must register for the conference with your own email address to access the Virtual Conference Platform for all sessions, activities, prize drawings, and continuing education units. This conference will provide approximately 30 CE units for RDNs, IBCLCs, and RNs. We will share detailed instructions on how to access and navigate the platform prior to the event.
For additional information and registration, please see https://calwic.org/events/annual-conference-trade-show/.
BreastfeedLA, in partnership with LA Best Babies Network, is excited to announce the first of two FREE webinars aimed to empower home visiting staff to better support the families we serve.
Webinar 2: Lactation Accommodations and Paid Leave Rights
- Date: May 29, 2024
- Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
- Description: This specialized training addresses the essential topic of lactation accommodation and paid leave rights tailored for home visitors who support families. It navigates the intricacies of accommodating lactating workers, particularly in the context where resources and space may be limited. Furthermore, it examines the rights of immigrant workers and those in nontraditional or difficult workplaces, clarifying their eligibility for paid leave and avenues for recourse if their rights are infringed upon. Through this targeted training, home visitors will be empowered with the knowledge and strategies necessary to advocate for equitable workplace practices and support the families they serve effectively.
- Register Here: https://commonspirit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3f5yXHCYSoiXLc_2mlyGdA#/registration
Beyond The Basics: Advanced Strategies for LGBTQ+ Lactation Care with Liam Kali, LM
On July 25, 2024 from 10:00 am PST to 12:00 pm PST, BreastfeedLA presents Beyond the Basics: Advanced Strategies for LGBTQ+ Lactation Care, a LIVE webinar led by Liam Kali, LM an authoritative resource on LGBTQ+ family building, therapeutic donor insemination, and gender inclusive reproductive care. Explore how to provide appropriate lactation care for LGBTQ+ individuals. It’s about more than just using inclusive language addressing people with the correct pronouns. This workshop goes beyond the basics and helps participants understand approaches to providing LGBTQ+ specific care.
Participants will be awarded 1.75 L-CERPS & 2.0 Contact Hours.
Register here!
Discover the nuances of providing lactation care for LGBTQ+ individuals in “Beyond The Basics: Advanced Strategies for LGBTQ+ Lactation Support” webinar on July 25, 2024, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PST, featuring Liam Kali (they/he), Licensed Midwife.
Drawing from Liam’s vast experience providing midwifery care and lactation management to LGBTQ+ families, this session transcends the basics, offering participants profound insights into tailored approaches to LGBTQ+ specific care.
Objectives
- Understand how to support co-lactation in queer couples.
- Recognize the benefits and struggles of lactation induction for trans women.
- Appreciate the complexities of lactation for transmasculine and nonbinary people.
Whether you’re a healthcare professional, educator, parent, or advocate, this session promises invaluable insights into fostering inclusive environments and delivering ethical, effective care to LGBTQ+ communities.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your practice and support LGBTQ+ families on their journey to parenthood.
The recording of this event will be sent to all registrants approximately 2 weeks after the live event, and available for viewing for up to 1 year after the live event.
Register Now!
Join BreastfeedLA’s 2024 Birthing Boldly, Fearlessly Feeding: Know Your Rights for Parents & Providers (formerly known as: Advocacy Day) taking place on August 29 & 30, 2024.
This two-day event will bring community members and professionals together to explore crucial topics affecting families in the childbearing years. Attendees will explore birthing people’s rights, paid family leave, lactation rights and more! This is a great opportunity to gain knowledge, foster dialogue, and ensure you know how to make sure your voice is heard!
Through engaging presentations, panel discussions, role-playing exercises, and networking opportunities, attendees will gain valuable insights, skills, and resources to drive positive change in breastfeeding policies, support systems, and community practices. Join us in celebrating three decades of transformative impact and charting a course towards a future where every individual has the knowledge, support, and rights to nurture the health and well- being of themselves and future generations.
This webinar aims to arm lactation consultants with the knowledge to assist NICU parents in establishing and maintaining a full milk supply to discharge and beyond by using the latest research on best practices and technologies for milk expression and NICU care, thereby improving breastfeeding and outcomes for all NICU patients.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Discuss specific challenges faced by lactating parents of NICU patients in establishing and maintaining a robust milk supply.
- List 4 factors that are associated with lactation and breastfeeding beyond term gestational age.
- Design a plan with optimal pumping strategies to maximize and maintain a parent’s milk supply for their infant.
- Compare the difference between natural suckling at the breast, vacuum-only breast pumps and vacuum plus compression pump technology.
- Formulate appropriate questions to clarify the information provided.
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Breastfeeding can be challenging for our medically fragile and premature infants in the NICU. Join BreastfeedLA as we present, “We Nuzzle and Wee Feeds: Transforming NICU Breastfeeding Outcomes”, a live webinar featuring Erika Clemens, MS OTR/L, SWC, IBCLC, NTMTC. Learn about UC San Diego’s age/ability appropriate protocols: Wee Nuzzle and Wee Feeds, integrating early breastfeeding to create positive feeding experiences, encourage parent/child bonding, increased milk supply and increased breastfeeding at NICU discharge.
Here’s what you’ll learn
- State three benefits of Wee Nuzzle.
- Identify 3 developmentally appropriate activities that can be done with a 25 wk PMA infant, 3 others that can be done with a 32 wk PMA infant.
- Give 3 therapeutic techniques used to facilitate positive experiences with breast/bottle feedings.
Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your practice and support NICU families on their journey to parenthood.
The recording of this event will be sent to all registrants approximately 2 weeks after the live event, and available for viewing for up to 1 year after the live event.
Please join BreastfeedLA as we present, “Normalize Brown Breasts®: A Primer for Breast Assessment in Non-White Skin Tones”, a live webinar featuring Nekisha Killings, MPH, IBCLC on December 4th from 10am – 12pm PST. By the end of this webinar, clinicians will be better equipped with the knowledge and skills needed for more accurate and inclusive breast health assessments, ensuring improved care for all patients.
Recording only available to those who purchase the live webinar.
Participants will earn 2.0 contact hours and 1.5 L-CERPS.
Delve into standard breast assessment techniques and their shortcomings, explore the diversity of skin tones and breast colors, and learn how to expand their assessment approaches for better accuracy.
Objectives – Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Determine whether their own assessment technique is adequate to support all populations.
- Articulate ways to identify key breast ailments in dark skinned patients.
- State 3 alternative ways to identify common conditions in lactation.
- Participants will be able to discuss the aims of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
- Participants will be able to describe the importance of the subsequent relevant resolutions to the Code
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
While registration is free, participants who wish to earn CEUs can purchase a certificate at https://breastfeedla.thinkific.com/courses/Who-Code
Don’t miss this opportunity to stay ahead with this important new requirement and gain valuable insights into The WHO Code’s role in promoting breastfeeding.
Note: Starting in 2025, the IBCLC will require all candidates to complete a 2-hour course on The WHO Code as part of their examination eligibility and certification renewal process. This free webinar is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their knowledge about how The WHO Code helps ensure parents make informed infant feeding decisions, free from misleading marketing practices.
Join BreastfeedLA on February 7, 2025, from 10:00 Am to 12:00pm PST for “Milk Money: The Corporate Hijack of Black Breastfeeding” with the Radical Moms Union!
Formula companies have a long history of targeting vulnerable Black mothers with aggressive and unethical marketing tactics. Today, in the digital age, smaller, savvier formula brands are using new methods to push their products online—this time, by co-opting Black birthworkers like midwives, IBCLCs, and natural birth advocates as marketing tools on social media.
The grassroots organization Radical Moms Union is fighting back! They’re empowering mothers, lactation professionals, and birthworkers to stand against this predatory marketing and reclaim Black breastfeeding advocacy.
What You’ll Learn:
- Attendees will be able to better critique partnerships between birthwork organizations and formula companies
- Attendees will be able to identify new and innovative forms of predatory marketing online
- Attendees will be better equipped to intervene on a colleague who may be recruited/volunteer to promote for a formula company
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
While registration is free, participants who wish to earn CEUs can purchase a certificate for $19 at https://breastfeedla.thinkific.com/courses/radical-moms-union
For any questions, please email Natalie at nakins@breastfeedla.org
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BreastfeedLA is thrilled to invite you, your organization, and your community to an exclusive screening and panel discussion of Chocolate Milk, a powerful documentary that explores Black maternal health, breastfeeding, and the systemic barriers that impact our communities on Thursday, February 27, from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM.
Event Details & Registration
- Event Info: Click Here
- Reserve Your Spot: Register Now
Bringing little ones? Please RSVP for any children requiring seats.
Help amplify this important conversation! Please share this event with your friends, colleagues, clients, and community members who are passionate about maternal health and equity.
Seats are limited—RSVP today! We look forward to coming together for a morning of powerful storytelling, advocacy, and connection.
Looking forward to seeing you there!