Fall 2025 Quarterly Membership Meeting

September 18, 2025

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction
• Mission and Community Norms
• Icebreaker
• New Trustees
• New Breastfeeding Statistics
• NJ Supports Breastfeeding
• Committee Reports 
• Presenter: Allyson Murphy

MISSION

To promote, protect, and support breastfeeding by working collaboratively.

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VISION

• Normalize breastfeeding
• Support an inclusive breastfeeding environment
• Promote evidence-based and culturally sensitive breastfeeding education, information, and support
• Ensure that everyone who breastfeeds or provides human milk has the resources to meet their goal

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• Each of us comes to this community or conversation with good intentions.
• Each of us has relevant skills, knowledge, identities and experiences on which to build, here and now. Everyone’s participation is vital.
• Racial equity means something different to each of us in this room. Wherever we currently are on the journey to achieve racial equity, we each acknowledge that we have work to do.
• Listening is difficult and possible. We will stay engaged, and open to new learning, and listen well for deep understanding.
• Conflict, when worked through, leads to closer, more trusting and more productive relationships.
• We step up and step back: If I usually hold back, I will speak up. If I tend to speak often, I will take a pause.
• We will experience any discomfort that comes up as part of the learning process. We will speak our discomforts.

COMMUNITY NORMS

ICE BREAKER

THANK YOU

Lorraine� ��Mejias,��� MPA

EXECUTIVE BOARD

PRESIDENT

Danielle Tropea, MPH, IBCLC

TREASURER

Maida Valentin, MHA, IBCLC

SECRETARY

Melanie Hutton, CLC

TRUSTEES

Sindy Ferreira, �MPH, IBCLC

Justin Silpe, �PhD

Noelle Tongue

Kristi DiMasi, �CLC

Jillian Faulks

NEW BREASTFEEDING STATISTICS

NJ SUPPORTS BREASTFEEDING

COMMITTEE REPORTS

SOCIAL MEDIA

ZIPMILK.org

ADVOCACY

FUNDRAISING

CHILDCARE TRAINING

OUTREACH

SOCIAL MEDIA

LinkedIn

33 followers

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Following NJBC doesn’t make you a voting member

1. Follow and join our pages and groups.
2. Invite your colleagues to join.
3. Respond to our posts. Please use anything but like because Facebook considers anything else as a more of a response.
4. Comment on a post. Facebook considers that more of a response even if it is just a one-word response or an emoji. When you do this, you will see more of our posts in your newsfeed. 
5. Share a post when appropriate to your personal page or in groups that would be interested in the post.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

ZIPMILK.org

• Search for breastfeeding resources by Zip Code
• Such as IBCLCs, Lactation Counselors, support groups, free support, Breastfeeding Medicine physicians, and WIC Coordinators
• Free to list and search
• Please add or update your listing zipmilk.org/providers/new
• Questions? Email njbreastfeedingcoalition@gmail.com

ADVOCACY

FUNDRAISING

bonfire.com/store/njbc

$30

• NEW JERSEY BREASTFEEDING COALITION

2025 T-SHIRT

FUNDRAISER

SCAN TO ORDER

CHILDCARE TRAINING

NJ Breastfeeding-Friendly

Child Care Training and Recognition Project

OUTREACH

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; They just have the heart.

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Committees:

• Community Engagement
• Marketing
• Lactation Professional Navigation Program
• Education
• Advocacy
• Grants

ALLYSON MURPHY, IBCLC PRESENTS…

THANK YOU