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2025 Recognition Weeks
- August 1-31 – 2025 National Breastfeeding Month
- Theme: Forward Together
- More info: usbreastfeeding.org/national-breastfeeding-month.html
- August 1-7 – 2025 World Breastfeeding Week
- Theme: Prioritise Breastfeeding. Create sustainable support systems.
- More info: worldbreastfeedingweek.org
- August 1-7 – 2025 National WIC Breastfeeding Week
- August 8-14 – 2025 Indigenous Milk Medicine Week
- Theme: Unapologetically Indigenous: Love, Landback, & Liberation
- More info: indigenousmilkmedicinecollective.org/milkmedicineweek
- August 15-21 – 2025 Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Breastfeeding Week
- August 22-24 – Military Lactation Celebration
- More info: globalmilcom.org/
- August 25-31 – 2025 Black Breastfeeding Week
- Theme: Boots on the Ground
- More info: blackbreastfeedingweek.org/ and facebook.com/BlackBreastfeedingWeek/
- September 1-7 – 2025 Workplace Lactation Week
- Theme: A World of Support: Creating Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplaces Everywhere
- More info: healthyhorizons.com/blogs/blog/workplace-lactation-week
These events are sponsored and run by other groups and organizations. The New Jersey Breastfeeding Coalition takes no responsibility for the description, content, or speakers. These listings are for informational purposes only.
Perinatal Health Equity Initiative Events, August 20-30, 2025
Find more information here. https://perinatalequity.org/upcoming-events/
- PHEI Takes Soul in the City – Elmwood Park. Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 5:00pm-9:00pm. Join us at Soul in the City for our new Lactation Lounge with resources, hydration, and rest-celebrating breastfeeding in public and kicking off BBW with comfort and connection.
- Breakfast for Champions: Saturday, August 23, 2025, 11:00am – 2:00pm. We officially kickoff BBW with a community brunch honoring leaders, donors, and advocates, featuring special recognition for Dr. Kia Grundy, our impactful Drops of Love donors, and those shaping birth and breastfeeding equity in New Jersey.
- Groundbreakers: Honoring Our Black IBCLCs, Monday, August 25, 2025, 5:00pm – 6:00pm. Moderated by Brittany Wright, MPH, IBCLC, we invite you to join a virtual panel celebrating Black IBCLCs who provide culturally safe, affirming care. Hear their journeys, lessons, and vision for leading with love in a system not built for us. Stay tuned to meet our panelists! CLICK HERE to register
- PHEI Takes the EO Farmer’s Market, Tuesday, August 26, 2025. 1:00pm – 7:00pm. We’re bringing comfort, connection, and celebration to the market. Our Lactation Lounge offers a soft place to land-complete with resources, giveaways, and goodies-for anyone starting, continuing, or deepening their breastfeeding journey.
- Protect the Right to Nourish: A Conversation on, Wednesday, August 27, 2025. 12:00pm-1:00pm. Led by Asia Smith, PHE’s Policy Director, join us for a virtual discussion on NJ breastfeeding protections, proposed legislation, and the systems still in need of change. CLICK HERE to register.
- Nurture & Nourish – Foundations. Wednesday, August 27, 2025, 5:00pm – 6:30pm.
Led by Brittany Wright, MPH, IBCLC, this prenatal breastfeeding class welcomes expectant parents and support persons. Learn the foundations of breastfeeding, how to navigate challenges, and where to find culturally grounded support. - The Care that Carries Us: Transforming Provider Practice by Centering Black Mamas. Thursday, August 28, 2025, 12:00pm – 1:00pm. Moderated by Brittany Wright, MPH, IBCLC, we invite you to join a virtual panel celebrating Black IBCLCs who provide culturally safe, affirming care. Hear their journeys, lessons, and vision for leading with love in a system not built for us. Stay tuned to meet our panelists! CLICK HERE to register.
- Lifting As We Climb: Becoming an IBCLC. Friday, August 29, 2025. 12:00pm – 1:00pm. Discover the pathway to becoming an IBCLC, hear firsthand experiences, and leave with practical tools, mentorship connections, and the inspiration to take your next step in lactation care. CLICK HERE to register.
- The Breast Stop: Free Lactation Education & Consult Pop-Up. Saturday, August 30, 2025. 11:00am-2:30pm. Kick off our new monthly pop-up with a welcoming space for Black mamas, and all birthing persons in need, who are seeking lactation support or exploring their options. Enjoy free 20-30 minute consultations, healing products, and a powerful photo at our BBW mural. No appointment needed!
2025 Monmouth-Ocean Breastfeeding Consortium Annual Virtual Conference
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Cost: $30
Register: cjfhc.org/news-events/event/2025/08/06/2025-monmouth-ocean-breastfeeding-consortium-annual-virtual-conference-/519785
- 8:10 am – Supporting Families in the NICU: Strategies to Maximize Milk Production & How Much Milk is Enough?, Ilana Levene, BM, BCh, MRCPCH, DPhil (Oxon)
- 10:00 am – Going Beyond Supply & Demand, Tenise Hordge, DHA, MBA, BSE, IBCLC
- 12:30 pm – WIC Panel
- 1:00 pm – Lactation Pharmacology: How Does Medication Transfer Into Milk, Kaytlin Krutsch, PhD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
- 2:00 pm – Lactation Pharmacology: Bridging Research & Reality, Kaytlin Krutsch, PhD, PharmD, MBA, BCPS
Registration now open! When registering, please be sure to use your home e-mail address, especially if you anticipate issues receiving e-mails at work. Filters and firewalls at work may prevent you from receiving your registration confirmation, link to view webinar, evaluation and continuing education hours/CERPS.
REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON AUGUST 5, 2025 AT 5:00 PM. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS.
Strategies in Lactation Support: Addressing Ethics and Family-Centered Care
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2025, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Location: Hudson County Schools of Technology, Secaucus
Cost: $75. Early bird ticket price is $60 if purchased by July 29, 2025
Register: pmch.org/event/strategies-in-lactation-support/
Target Audience: Nurses, lactation consultants and counselors, doulas, community health workers
Continuing education: 3 L-CERPs (1 L-CERP for each breakout session), 2 E-CERPs, and 1 R-CERP. Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hours: 4.0.
- 9:15 am – Successful Long-Term Lactation via Paternal Preparation and Education, Peter Bullock, CD
- 10:15 am – NJ Breastfeeding Strategic Plan Update, Videsha Joshi, MPH
- 10:45 am – Breakout groups
- Session A: Providing Expert IBCLC Support to Families Breastfeeding in the Presence of Ankyloglossia, Carmen Baker-Clark, BA, IBCLC, RLC
- Session B: Lactation Support Beyond the Fourth Trimester: Debunking Myths, Vickie Nizin, IBCLC
- Session C: Navigating Prenatal Breastfeeding Education, Brittany Wright, MPH, IBCLC, CBS
- 12:45 pm – Unravel Conflict-of-Interest with International [WHO] Code: How predatory marketing plays with our minds, Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA
World Breastfeeding Month Lecture Series Prioritize Breastfeeding & Create Sustainable Support Systems
Free, fully virtual
When: Every Wednesday of August, 9 am – 10 am
Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Lactation Professionals
Register here: events.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/event/breastfeedingmonth2025/summary
- Wednesday, Aug 6, 2025 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
- Breastfeeding: A Multi-Faceted Sustainable Support System
- Alicia Dermer, M.D., FABM, NABBLM-C Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Centrastate Family Medicine Residency Program
- Breastfeeding: A Multi-Faceted Sustainable Support System
- Wednesday, Aug 13, 2025 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
- How Programs Create Stability for Families from Pregnancy to Parenting and Beyond
- Justin Silpe, PhD CSO PumpKin-Baby, NJBC Trustee
- How Programs Create Stability for Families from Pregnancy to Parenting and Beyond
- Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
- Underutilization of Breastfeeding Services: How to Better Support the Black Dyad and to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding
- Kashieka Phillips Community Alignment Program Supervisor Partnership for Maternal & Child Health of Northern New Jersey
- Underutilization of Breastfeeding Services: How to Better Support the Black Dyad and to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding
- Wednesday, Aug 27, 2025 9:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
- Black Breastfeeding Week: Under-utilization of breastfeeding services: how to better support the Black dyad and to promote exclusive breastfeeding
- Natashia Conner, PhD., M.Phil, MS, IBCLC Board-Certified Health Education Specialist, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant and Public Health Expert
- Black Breastfeeding Week: Under-utilization of breastfeeding services: how to better support the Black dyad and to promote exclusive breastfeeding
