When I started the San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation in 2016, my mission was to remove racial and economic barriers for BIPOC and low-income chest/breastfeeding families in San Diego. After years of witnessing barrier after barrier for these families, I decided to BE the change, rather than just talk about what needed to change.
However, this change would NEVER have been possible without funding from our loving clients and family, our major donors, and community partners. With YOUR generous donations, paired with grants from Impact Partners, The Jem Project, Postpartum Health Alliance, Kaiser Family Foundation, Global Communities, San Diego Women Give, United Healthcare, Kindred Bravely, Little Star Pediatric Dentistry, and the California Endowment, look at all we have accomplished!
Since 2016, SDBFC Foundation has provided over 1300 free/reduced-fee lactation consultations for BIPOC and low-income families.
Since 2021, we have provided 16 scholarships to BIPOC individuals to further their education in becoming a lactation professional in their communities; professionals to finally provide culturally-congruent, low-barrier care.
In 2022, we opened 2 lactation clinics; one in the San Diego Community Birth Center (the ONLY black-owned birth center in San Diego) and one in Southeast San Diego (to be announced next month!)
None of these accomplishments could have happened without support from our amazing community, whom we are so grateful for! Will you help us continue this momentum into 2023?
$25 pays for pump supplies during a lactation consultation
$50 pays for staffing a breastfeeding support group
$100 pays for one lactation consultation
$1500 pays for a scale for a new BIPOC lactation consultant
We still have so much work to do. Will you join us in changing the landscape of Chest/Breastfeeding Support in San Diego?