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To achieve the objective for breastfeeding of infants
and toddlers, the priority recommendation seeks to assure
that health care settings, child care facilities, and
worksite environments are breastfeeding friendly.
The description below illustrates what organizations and
communities are doing to support priority recommendations
to promote and support breastfeeding.
The
goal of the project is to increase duration rates
for breastfeeding by increasing awareness and support
for breastfeeding among child care providers. The
objectives are: 1) Provide consultation, training
and support to licensed child care centers and family
home care providers to implement best practices
to support and encourage breastfeeding; 2) Convene
a community workgroup to identify the components
of a "Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Program".
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Target
audience: Child care center and child care family
home providers.
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Evaluation:The impact
of the trainings will be measured by evaluations completed by participants at the completion
of the training. We will not be able to evaluate the impact of the breastfeeding friendly child
care criteria until we are able to find funding to support the implementation of the program.
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Partners:
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies, Child Care Resources,
Division of Child Care and Early Learning, DSHS,
Seattle/King County Breastfeeding Coalition.
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Lead
agency role: Public Health-Seattle & King
County (PHSKC) is the local health jurisdiction providing public health services
for the residents of King County. The Child Care Health Program is a unit within
PHSKC and provides services to child care and out-of-school-time care providers
throughout the county. The Child Care Health Program combines the disciplines of public
health nursing, nutrition, child psychology and health education to work together to
provide consultation, technical assistance and training on issues of health, nutrition
and safety to child care center providers, child care family home providers,
out-of-school-time program staff, park and recreation program staff, and Head Start
and ECEAP program staff.
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For
more information:
Adrienne Dorf
Tel: 206-205-9026
Fax: 206-296-2750
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This publication was supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement
Number U58/CCU019291 from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility
of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official
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Last updated:
March 19, 2005 16:17
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