California Breastfeeding Coalition

Working Together For A Healthier California

California

Breastfeeding

Coalition

The 2011 Summit brought together more than 350 professionals from throughout California who are working in their communities

to improve infant, family, and community health.

Summit Goals:

• establish exclusive breastfeeding as the norm and the default for infant feeding in all Caliofrnia hospitals
  

• establish the importance of breastfeeding policy
  

• provide tools and resources to implement evidence-based maternity care policies and practices that increase exclusive breastfeeding
  

• strengthen community partnerships to provide breastfeeding support throughout the continuum of care
  

Summit Program:

• California Breastfeeding Summit Program
  

Summit Presentations:

Opening Plenary Session

• California WIC: Supporting Parents' Choice- Michele van Eyken, MPH, RD
  

• Update on the Perinatal Care (PC) Core Measure Set- Celeste Milton, MPH, BSN, RN
  

• The State of California's Breastfeeding Rates: In the Hospital and Beyond- M. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC
  

• Pursuing Baby-Friendly Designation: Misinformation, Myths, Facts and Solutions- Trish MacEnroe, BS, CDN, CLC
  

Quality Improvement Track

• Interpreting Breastfeeding Data to Improve Maternity Practices in Infant and Nutrition Care- Carina Saraiva, MPH  and Michael Curtis, PhD
  

Handout- Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) in California

• Generating Hospital Maternity Data for Improved Policy Implementation- Debra Bingham, DrPH, RN
  

Article- Setting perinatal quality and safety goals: Should we strive for best outcomes?

Handout- Change Project MAP-IT Worksheet

• Putting Together the... Nuts and Bolts of Breastfeeding MultidisciplinaryQuality Improvement (MQI) - Lorraine Miles, RN, IBCLC and Sadie Sacks, RN, MSN
  

• Hands On: Facilitating a Maternity Quality Improvement Plan for Your Facility- LuWanda Paggett, MSN-Ed, RN and Karen Peters, MBA, RD, LCCE, IBCLC
  

Handout- Birth and Beyond California Breastfeeding Quality Improvement Action Plan

Handout-Birth and Beyond California Hospital Quality Improvement Interdisciplinary Team

Baby-Friendly Implementation Track

• The Baby-Friendly Journey: The New 4-D Pathway to Baby-Friendly Designation- Trish MacEnroe, BS, CDN, CLC
  

• Swimming Upstream: How do I get the Baby-Friendly Process Started? Carol Melcher,MPH, RN, BS
  

• Tackling the Challenges of Becoming Baby-Friendly: Staff, Physician and Parent Education- Terri Gass, RN, IBCLC and Karen Peters, MBA, RD, LCCE, IBCLC
  

Handout- Tackling the Challenges of Becoming Baby-Friendly

• Getting Solid Outcomes from a SOFT Approach: 12 Hospitals Work Together to Achieve Baby-Friendly-Carol Melcher, MPH, BS, RN, Karen Jenkins, RN, and Rosilyn Nolan, RN, MSN, CCRN  
  

Community Partnerships Track

• Preparing Prenatal WIC Participants for the Hospital and Early Breastfeeding Experience- Sandi Storch, RD, MPH, CLE
  

• Utilizing WIC to Enhance Hospital Breastfeeding Policies and Practices- Susan Martinelli, IBCLC
  

• Utilizing WIC to Enhance Breastfeeding Policies and Services- Dana Wagner, RD, IBCLC
  

• Utilizing WIC to Enhance Breastfeeding Policies and Procedures- Daisy Silverio, MS, RD, CLE
  

• Bringing Donor Milk to California Hospitals- Mary DeNicola, DNP, FNP-C, CLC
  

• Bringing Donor Human Milk to California Hospitals- Nancy E. Wight, MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP
  

• Building Hospital Consortiums to Improve Breastfeeding Policies- Christine Gibson, RN, PHN, CLE, Carol Melcher, MPH, RN, BSN, and Mary Woelfel, MPH, IBCLC
  

• Funding Models for Hospital Breastfeeding Support Services- Carole Swain, RN, IBCLC
  

• Starting an In-Hospital Lactation Center- Chris Costello, RN, IBCLC
  

• Independent Lactation Services Model Based on a Marketing Approach- Sheila Janakos, MPH, IBCLC
  

Closing Plenary Session

• Supporting Exclusive Breastfeeding During the Hospital Stay: Addressing Reasons for Mothers' Request for Formula- M. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC
  

• The Route to Change: Striving for Best Outcomes- Debra Bingham, DrPH, RN
  

• Closing Activity: Our Journey toward a Breastfeeding- Friendly California
  

For more Summit information:

CBC Executive Director

Robbie Gonzalez-Dow

(831) 917-8939 or robbie@californiabreastfeeding.org

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