Breastfeeding Promotion in Early Care and Education

What's In This Kit?
This training kit is designed to explore ways to support breastfeeding. It contains:

• Expected training outcomes
• Preparation instructions
• Training strategies and tips
• Implementation steps
• Follow-up activities for teachers
• Follow-up activities for administrators/directors
• A learning assessment
• A training evaluation/further needs assessment
• A resource list
• The article Breastfeeding Promotion in Child Care, Recommended Breast Milk Storage and Handling Procedures for Child Care Providers, by Laura Dutil Aird
• A training certificate to award to teachers for attendance and participation
• A certificate for the trainer and other presenters

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audience for this kit is beginning, intermediate, and advanced teachers working with children from age birth to 5. Teachers will understand the their role in supporting breastfeeding in the school setting.

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is estimated at 1.0 hour. Implementation time is estimated at 1.5 hours.

Training Outcomes:

1. Teachers will list the health benefits of breastfeeding.
2. Teachers will describe the emotional benefits of breastfeeding.
3. Teachers will demonstrate ways to support breastfeeding mothers by providing an open invitation to breastfeed during the day, provide a private, comfortable place to breastfeed, and providing labeled baskets in the freezer for the storage of frozen breast milk.
4. Teachers will share information about breastfeeding benefits with others in their school communities.

These training outcomes address the following professional standards:

• C-3a, C-3b, C4-a, C-4b, C-6a, C-9a, C-9b, and C-9d of the Accreditation Criteria and Procedures of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC, 1998)
• Standard 2a-c of NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation, Initial Licensure Level (NAEYC, 2003)
• 1304. 40(a)(1), 1304.40(c)(3), and 1304. 40(d)(2) of Head Start Performance Standards (Federal Register, Nov. 5, 1996, Volume 61, Number 215).

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