Milk Like Mine is seeking support to strengthen their internal operations in order to better serve families in the Battle Creek area by strengthening their communications and marketing activities and providing more opportunities for staff leadership development. The...
Spectrum Health Foundation, the Strong Beginnings program, and their partners are seeking support to authentically engage with Black breastfeeding families to design a program model that will meet their needs and support their breastfeeding journey. The collaborative...
KConnect and the Heart of West Michigan United Way will create a community-based doula program for women of color that bridges language and cultural barriers to promote optimal health and well-being. Doulas will provide pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and...
Michigan Breast Feeding Network (MIBFN) will partner with Black and Indigenous led breastfeeding organizations in Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas to conduct listening sessions around the state. MIBFN’s goals are to 1) listen and learn about the community-driven...
The Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association (BMBFA) will develop a mobile application to improve BMBFA’s data collection, outcome reporting, and communication, allowing it to better serve breastfeeding club participants. The application will facilitate peer-to-peer...
The goal of the project is to see the Mother Nurture Lactation College (MNLC) through the complex process of accreditation and enrollment to become the first academic lactation training program in Michigan and in the Midwest region. Through development of the...
This program will elevate the capacity and diversity of the lactation field in the state of Michigan to provide culturally sensitive professional lactation support and address significant shortages of internationally board-certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) in...
The Michigan Breast Feeding Network will create and disseminate toolkits to local coalitions with resources to support breastfeeding families facing urgent and unanticipated barriers to breastfeeding including jury duty, child custody, environmental disasters, and...
This grant supports the Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association’s pre-application work for the HealthConnect One’s Community-based Doula Accreditation Program. This work will increase fidelity to HealthConnect One’s evidence-based, community-based doula model and...
