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Update on Heavy Metals and Foods for Young Children

Parents are often concerned about what to feed their baby. Their concerns have increased since learning that heavy metals can be present in foods consumed by young children. This session will help to increase your knowledge of how these elements have come to be in foods, what policy makers are doing to decrease children's exposure […]

COVID-19 Vaccine for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Persons: What You Can Do

Join us on November 8, 2022, from 3:00 – 4:30 ET as the HHS Office on Women’s Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Women's Health continue the conversation about the COVID-19 vaccine and pregnant and breastfeeding persons. The presenters will discuss: Concerns and misperceptions among pregnant and breastfeeding persons regarding vaccine […]

Customized Digital Media Marketing for WIC Retention and Recruitment

Child participation and retention in WIC have declined in recent years. Beginning in 2019, five local WIC agencies in four states partnered with HPRIL to implement and evaluate innovation projects aimed at retaining children in WIC. This presentation will focus on the impacts of the local agency project at Miami-Dade WIC which implemented a customized […]

Access to Reproductive Healthcare and Maternal Mental Health

Access to reproductive healthcare has been shown to impact rates of Maternal Mental Health Disorders (MMHDs). During this webinar 2020 Mom will discuss the release of its issue brief titled Access to Reproductive Healthcare and Maternal Mental Health and discuss the brief’s key highlights with two leaders in the field, this will include: -A general […]

Collaboratively Pursuing Policy Solutions: Lessons Learned from the USBC

The evidence is clear that the policies and systems that shape and influence our lives have a significant and lasting impact on infant feeding outcomes. Too often, policy decisions have a population-level impact yet do not take into consideration the needs of infants, their mothers and lactacting parents, and their families. For decades, the lactation […]

Connect & Explore – Does Breastfeeding Initiation Vary by WIC Participation and Race/Ethnicity? An Examination of Long-Term Trends from 2009-2017

The National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) is hosting a Connect & Explore webinar that will explore “Breastfeeding Initiation Trends by WIC Participation and Race/Ethnicity Among Medicaid Births,” a research study soon to appear in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Join us on January 11, 2023, from 3:00-4:00 pm ET for a […]

Rural Voters’ Attitudes about Early Learning & Child Hunger

Join Save the Children, Save the Children Action Network and the bipartisan polling team – Lori Weigel of New Bridge Strategies and Jay Campbell of Hart Research – as we share the results of a recent nationwide survey of rural voters’ attitudes about early learning and hunger. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about […]