North Central Breastfeeding Task Force
7.9.21 Minutes
- Round Robin (group sharing)
- Glendean – MIECHV/SIDS of IL
- 2 baby showers completed in May and June (Kankakee and N. Kane co.)
- Kane county was largest ever with 37 participants!
- Planning stages for 3rd in Southern Kane Co now – will be focused on supporting Spanish speaking families. Help needed for how to handle translation
- Brainstormed ideas for Zoom closed captioning, google translate, and having trusted community member who is bilingual interpret? Challenges with timing – translation will take longer!
- 2 baby showers completed in May and June (Kankakee and N. Kane co.)
- Glendean – MIECHV/SIDS of IL
- Statewide task forces, legislation passed to support pregnant and parenting women! (looking for members to support projects below)
- Focus on housing access for pregnant and parenting women
- African American pregnant and parent women
- Doula support
- Looking for doulas to help provide input on guidance for increasing doula support
- Telehealth support
- Recommendations on how to help explain and prepare patients for successful telehealth visits
- Implicit bias trainings
- Improve trainings for health care providers
- Cindy – Well Child Center
- BFPCs are back at Sherman Hospital seeing moms in person
- Rose – Will Co. WIC
- Purchased “WIC loves Breastfeeding” peds and designed business cards with breastfeeding and local WIC agency information for outreach
- Diana/Yesenia- Family Focus
- Starting to do some home visiting in person (meeting in parks, outside when possible)
- Having families sign a consent form discussing CDC and other COVID-19 related procedures in place. Masking, temp screening, questionnaire, social distancing and having families keep any activities used during the visit vs giving back.
- April – Well Child Center
- Going to LCA conference in Houston Aug 30-Sept 1
- Courtney – Lake Co. WIC
- IGROW home visiting partnership will be starting a 9-week long virtual prenatal class beginning 7/14/21. Doulas will be leading; WIC helping facilitate, promote, and providing giveaways
- IGROW and WIC virtual BF support group will be starting Aug 5 -led by WIC BFPCs, will be for WIC moms and moms who participated in the IGROW prenatal class to join once they deliver. Will be weekly
- Doula support
- Will be offering option to have WIC clients come in person if they want starting at the end of July.
- Shared LC WIC Facebook page info (bit.ly/lcwicbreastfeeds if you would like to join to check it out) and bargaining with Communications team to get it
- Private group vs a page, started by the county and then we update it as individuals vs as the agency
- Not great interaction yet, but BFPCs team wants to make a bigger effort this year with new content ideas
- ISPAN Project (Courtney)
- Survey sent to women’s health team at Lake Co (pregnancy testing, prenatal/post partum care teams)
- Presentation at staff meeting discussed WIC, other BF support in Lake Co, training options, ISPAN project
- Team will hand out info cards with the reusable breast pads to women who are 16-22 weeks gestation
- Has WIC phone # and WIC facebook page info
- Mini Grants and Plans for funding
- Idea to create a webinar for health care providers – continuation from ISPAN project
- Feedback from Lake Co. women’s health team that they want more education on BF
- Will create separate email chain with Dyana, Pam, Ruth to start the brainstorming process for how to make it happen (email Courtney if interested in helping!)
- $600 for continuing ISPAN project and $400 for minigrants available
- Minigrants open to all members: use the funding to support breastfeeding in the community
- August Breastfeeding Month
- Not much happening this year!
- Lake Co will have social media posts
- Panel discussion on African American Community Partnership Group’s facebook page about breastfeeding in the AA/Black community led by WIC BFPC
- “woman on the street” video in Spanish and English talking with people about breastfeeding myths
- Will Co. will have posters and a table up in the health clinic and near COVID clinic
- State BF Task Force Calls: Next one July 20th 10 -12, webex
- Marijuana effects in pregnancy and lactation
- A day in the life… working with baby friendly hospitals
- US BF Committee Conference Update
- Next Meeting: September 10
- Idea to create a webinar for health care providers – continuation from ISPAN project