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cheer champion of the week: CHAMPS NOLA Baby Café™!

2/27/2017

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PictureA mother receives a “1 year & beyond” breastfeeding award
​The CHAMPS NOLA Baby Café™ opened its doors last June 1, 2016, and has been making an impact on its community ever since! Their weekly attendance has been gradually increasing, and in February 2017, 13 breastfeeding mothers attended. Family members, including babies’ fathers and grandmothers, also regularly attend and participate in the Café.
 
“I believe that we are slowly making an impact on the community by providing this free resource to breastfeeding families,” says CHAMPS NOLA Baby Café Director Portia Williams, RN, BSN, IBCLC, CCHC.
 
The Café recently honored mothers at a holiday celebration where refreshments and gifts were provided. Mothers received breastfeeding awards for 6 months, 12 months, and 1 year & beyond of breastfeeding, and for tandem nursing and nursing multiples. 

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A Baby Café meeting
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One of the Café’s beautiful breastfeeding families
​The CHAMPS NOLA Baby Café continues to meet weekly on Wednesdays from 10 am to 2 pm at the National Birth Equity Collaborative’s offices in mid-city New Orleans at no cost. ROSE (Reaching our Sisters Everywhere), Best Baby Zone Hollygrove, and Healthy Start of New Orleans are other key partners to the Café. Currently, Tulane University School of Medicine Pediatric Residents visit the Café to learn more about becoming pediatricians who support breastfeeding.
 
Café volunteers include Meshawn Tarver, MPH Candidate; Krystal Wallace, CLC; and Kenya Harry, MPH, Community Engagement Coordinator for Best Baby Zone. Krystal is training to become the Café’s first Baby Café Breastfeeding Counselor, a new role designated by Baby Café USA to encourage more women to become lactation professionals.
 
Portia shared her vision for the future with CHAMPS: “My vision is to open more Cafés in the Metro New Orleans area and to establish relationships with local hospitals, which increases [Café] attendance.”
 
Portia is also working out the logistics to open a “cluster Café”, a Café linked administratively to the NOLA Café but meeting in a different location. It will be called CHAMPS NOLA Baby Café-West Bank and the proposed location is on New Orlean’s Westbank in Terrytown.

Congratulations, CHAMPS NOLA Baby Café! Keep up the good work! ​
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  • Home
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • Our History
    • Our Team
    • Contact Us
    • Support Our Work
  • Current Projects
    • Mississippi CHAMPS
    • COVID-19 >
      • For MCH Providers >
        • National/International Guidance
        • Hospital/Provider Experiences
      • For Families with Babies
      • CHAMPS COVID-19 Response
      • COVID-19 and MCH Research
    • RWJ Healthy Eating Research
    • Trainings, Webinars & Conferences
  • Past Projects
    • AI/AN Health >
      • AI/AN CHAMPS
      • MSPI/DVPI Technical Assistance
      • CHAs and CHIPs >
        • Blackfeet Community Health Assessment
        • Northern Cheyenne Community Health Assessment
        • Rocky Boy's Community Health Assessment
        • Blackfeet Community Health Improvement Plan
      • Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselor Course
    • CHAMPS South
  • CHEERING
    • CHEERing: CHEER International - Greece >
      • CHEER Greece: Refugees >
        • Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies
        • Infant Feeding Data in Athens
        • Camp Mapping
  • News
    • News from CHEER
    • News from the Field
  • Resources
    • IYCFE Resources
    • Breastfeeding/Baby-Friendly Resources >
      • Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
      • Current Research
      • Useful Websites
      • Policy Statements & Position Papers
      • Training for Healthcare Professionals
      • Patient Education Materials
      • Breastfeeding in the Workplace
      • Breastfeeding and the Law
      • Ban the Bags
    • Breastfeeding in Scripture
    • Our Publications
  • Champions
    • Lifetime Achievement Awards