Oct 5, 2020 | Advocate Voices
Tina Benitez has been helping mothers and babies breastfeed for the past 30 years. In 1990, as a breastfeeding mother herself, she started working in one of the first WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling programs in California. In 1999, she became an International Board...Mar 30, 2020 | Advocate Voices
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health emergency. Many questions and concerns have been raised in regard to the impact of COVID-19 on infant feeding practices during the postpartum period. As a coalition, we acknowledge COVID-19 presents a number of...Mar 19, 2020 | Advocate Voices
Over the past week, concerns related to COVID-19 (Coronavirus) have increased. The California Breastfeeding Coalition has been and will continue to closely monitor the rapidly changing situation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World...Feb 27, 2020 | Advocate Voices
Bre’Jaynae Joiner is a breastfeeding mother of two who works full-time as a social worker in the Oakland area. The 2019 graduate of CSU East Bay is a passionate advocate for California families, working as a peer counselor at the West Oakland and East Health Center to...Feb 19, 2020 | Advocate Voices
February 19, 2020 The California Breastfeeding Coalition (CBC) joined the office of Sen. Kamala Harris at a roundtable on Black maternal health in San Francisco earlier this week. The roundtable, hosted Tuesday by Sen. Harris’ office, was moderated by CBC Board Chair...