Action 3Strengthen programs that provide mother-to-mother support and peer counseling

Implementation StrategiesPotential Actors
 Create and maintain a sustainable infrastructure for mother-to-mother support groups and for peer counseling programs in hospitals and community health care settings.Public health entities
Community organizations
 Establish peer counseling as a core service available to all women in WIC.*Federal, state, and local WIC programs
*

WIC = Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; U.S. Department of Agriculture.

From: Appendix 1, Actions to Improve Breastfeeding

Cover of The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding.
Office of the Surgeon General (US); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); Office on Women's Health (US).
Rockville (MD): Office of the Surgeon General (US); 2011.
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