SOURCE: National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sept. 26, 2021.
$ AVAILABLE: NACCHO will make up to 10 awards available with awards up to $20,000 each.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligibility is restricted to nonprofits and municipalities that are conducting the work within a defined local community (e.g. a specific county, city, or a group of zip codes). Applicants may include, but are not limited to, local health departments, community health centers, WIC offices, Healthy Start sites, nonprofit hospitals, local breastfeeding coalitions with a fiscal sponsor, and community-based organizations. Partnerships are critical to advancing continuity of care, so applicants should plan to collaborate with at least one other partner to implement this project and indicate selected partners in the application. Applicants are required to partner with a breastfeeding expert organization and an organization that represents community members. Note that these organizations can be the same entity (i.e., an applicant will partner with one organization that is a breastfeeding expert organization and represents community members). It is expected that part of the budget will support partners and community members in their collaborative work.
PURPOSE: Major medical and governmental organizations recognize that optimal infant and young child feeding includes exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued with the addition of age-appropriate complementary feeding for at least one and up to two years or longer. With support from the CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO), NACCHO is pleased to announce a funding opportunity to support the implementation of Continuity of Care in Breastfeeding Support: A Blueprint for Communities to strengthen community lactation support.
CONTACT: Email: breastfeeding@naccho.org. For more information, go to www.breastfeedingcontinuityofcare.org/home.
From Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) Weekly Digest email, Sept. 3, 2021.
Subject(s): pregnancy, children’s health, women’s health.