Chest/Breastfeeding Policies
To address chest/breastfeeding disparities, a public health initiative to improve the continuity of care for breast/chestfeeding and human milk feeding has been established by CCHD. Intervention strategies include:
- Establish and implement lactation friendly policies and practices in accordance with NYS Labor Law 206-c and federal accommodations to help parents meet their feeding goals.
- Implement breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and lactation supports in community and public spaces.
- Build and expand local breast/chestfeeding coalitions to strengthen and expand lactation support, initiation, and duration within the community infrastructure.
- Implement NYS’s Breastfeeding, Chestfeeding, and Lactation Friendly Practice Designation to provide consistent, evidence-based lactation education and management from the prenatal period through infancy.
- Develop support groups that are inclusive of all breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding individuals to provide free, evidence-based lactation support.
Since 2013, CCHD has assisted in the development and implementation of over 260 Breastfeeding, Chestfeeding and Lactation Friendly policies.
Interested in developing or revising an existing healthy policy? Contact HPP staff at 518-565-4993.
Created 06/14/2024
