Program Schedule

• State Strategies for Equity in Access to Lactation Care
• What's Race Got to Do With It?
• Putting Concepts Into Action: Using a Racial Equity Tool
• Strategic Thinking & Planning: Coalition Style

• Mobilizing Movements with Unified Messaging

Coalitions Regional Meetings

• Mid-Atlantic Region……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salon C
• Midwest Region…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salon D
• Mountain Plains Region………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salon E
• Northeast Region………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salon F
• Southeast Region………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salon G
• Southwest Region……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salon H
• West Pacific Region………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Salons ABJK

Plenary Session: Leadership for Undoing Racism in the Breastfeeding World

This session will build on the wisdom of Dr. Camara Jones, specifically the "Gardener's Tale" and how to bring it home to our realities in the breastfeeding field. Kiran Katira will ask us to look at ourselves within the racial construct that is the U.S. and collectively work to name racism, understand how it operates, and organize strategies to dismantle it in the "First Food" movement.
Presenter: Kiran Katira, Director, Community Engagement Center at the University of New Mexico
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Plenary Session: Community Engagement: The Benefits of Emergent Practice to Successfully 'Dance' with Complex Challenges

Wesley Days will provide some concise theory and practical steps and exercises on adaptive change and innovation for organizations. He will unpack a few tools for systems change that can embed operational adaptive skills utilizing our existing networks. A particular emphasis will be on how complexity thinking can challenge one's current way of thinking and working.
Presenter: John Wesley Days, Jr., Process Facilitator, EmcArts
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• Tribal Coalitions: Jackson
• State & WIC State Breastfeeding Coordinators: Madison

Plenary Session: The National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep: From Campaigns to Conversations

This session will provide an overview of the National Action Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep (NAPPSS), a HRSA/MCHB-funded initiative that is engaging a coalition of over 50 national organizations, with the active involvement of federal partners including the NICHD’s Safe to Sleep campaign. The mission of NAPPSS is to develop and implement a practical National Action Plan to Increase Safe Infant Sleep and partner to support breastfeeding among infant caregivers by activating systems, supports, and services to systematically work together to make safe infant sleep a national norm. NAPPSS Project Director Suzanne Bronheim will share about the evolution of their unique and innovative approach, which builds on the success of public education campaigns to raise awareness, but focuses on the next step—moving from awareness to action, or "from Campaigns to Conversations."
Presenters: Suzanne Bronheim, NAPPSS Project Director, National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University & Susan Lorenzo, NAPPSS Senior Program Manager, National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health at Georgetown University 
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