2023 ENRICH Learning Collaborative Meeting
Optimizing Maternity Care in 2023
ENGAGE with others | ENERGIZE your efforts toward improvement | EXPAND your heart and mind
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Welcome
It is our pleasure to welcome you all to the ENRICH Carolinas Learning Collaborative Meeting. We are looking forward to hosting you all over the next two days, and we appreciate all that you have sacrificed to be here in-person today.
While the most grueling pandemic days are behind us, we continue to feel the impacts of the hard changes brought about over the last 3 years. We operate differently and our priorities have shifted. We are still learning the best ways to be together in virtual spaces even as we reacquaint ourselves to the experience of in-person meetings like this one. Let’s celebrate the gifts that the “big pause” bestowed upon us, even as we discuss the ongoing pain points we strive to overcome. We are proud of the many accomplishments of ENRICH facilities over the last few years, your perseverance and dedication is unparalleled.
We are excited to share this program of expert content and presenters with you. As always, we hope that you learn from each other, get inspired, and leave Chapel Hill ENRICHed! Be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know even just a few others in this project during our breaks, lunches and networking dinner. Each of you are on a similar journey with the shared goal of healthy parents and children for generations to come. Please share with one another your experiences — we are still stronger together.
Catherine Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, IBCLC, FAND
Director/Assistant Professor, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute
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Objectives
MOTIVATE AND INSPIRE
– Provide encouragement and shared goals
– Share and display accomplishments on a team timeline
– Renew commitment to self-care during recovery and healing from the Covid-19 pandemic
PROVIDE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE RELATED TO TEN STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL BREASTFEEDING
– Provide encouragement toward our shared goals
– Stay up to date with updates from Baby-Friendly USA and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services who administer Ten Steps recognition programs
GAIN UNDERSTANDING AND TOOLS TO IMPLEMENT SYSTEM-LEVEL CHANGES TO REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES
– Deepen understanding of inclusive excellence concepts in maternity care
– Describe strategies to better serve our diverse communities
FOSTER COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AMONG FACILITIES
– Provide networking opportunities, identify areas for future collaboration, and sustain a network of breastfeeding/chestfeeding champions
Engagement and Feedback
Engagement is an important part of learning. Please share your key take-aways and thoughts or questions about each session on our interactivity boards set up around the venue. Post-it notes are provided for this purpose. Each time you contribute to the interactivity boards, take a raffle ticket. We will have a drawing at the end for a couple lucky winners!
Evaluations and CERP Credits
Each session has an evaluation QR code. Scan the code after the session to complete the survey. If you would like CERP credit for the session, a link will be provided after submitting your evaluation. You can complete your name and download your certificate directly from this link. Please complete session evaluations as soon as you can after each session. At the end of the event, we encourage you to complete the overall event evaluation (QR code located on back cover of program). We value your feedback!
Hallway Activities
ENRICH REGISTRATION TABLE
Questions? Concerns? Come to the registration table. We are here to listen and respond. Be sure to stop by on Wednesday before you leave to pick up your facility’s parting gift. One person should pick up the gift.
ENRICH PHOTO BOOTH
Get ready to take some ROCKSTAR shots! Gather your facility together and have fun posing for individual and group shots. You will receive a printed and framed copy of ONE GROUP PHOTO before you leave. Please be sure to take your team’s group photo by 5:30 on Tuesday to ensure they’re printed in time!
ENRICH ECE MATERIALS
Make sure Early Care and Education (ECE) providers in your communities are prepared for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E)! Stop by the Child Care table and check out the latest materials supporting IYCF-E implementation in ECE.
NORTH CAROLINA WIC LATCH
Visit the NC WIC Latch table to meet Rachel Dean, Hannah Edens, and Brandi Harrison. Gain information on the training opportunities available through LATCH to hospitals and area providers. Discuss referrals and collaboration with local WIC agencies. A variety of handouts will be available.
BABY-FRIENDLY USA HELP DESK
Bring your questions to the friendly faces at this table! We’re lucky to have the full collaboration of Baby-Friendly USA in the ENRICH project — they are here to help.
Agenda
>> Monday, October 16
6:30pm REGISTRATION OPEN | Main Lobby, McLean Hall, 2nd floor
6:30pm MEET & MINGLE | Shaffer Kenan Lounge, McLean Hall, 1st floor | Optional time to get to know other participating in ENRICH Carolinas. Food and drinks available for purchase. Drop in anytime.
>> Tuesday, October 17
7:30am REGISTRATION OPEN | Laudermilk Hall
8:45am KICKOFF & WELCOME PRESENTATION | Catherine Sullivan
9:30am PLENARY – Focus on Safety, Equity, and Competence: How Updated Baby-Friendly USA Guidelines Help Close the Gap in Breastfeeding Disparities and Empower Mothers | Eileen Fitzpatrick of Baby-Friendly USA
This session will provide a general overview of Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria-6th Edition with a focus that includes safe implementation of practices, equitable provision of care, meaningful conversations, and competence of skills to support to breastfeeding parents. Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
10:30am REFRESHMENT BREAK
11am PLENARY – Practical Framing Tips for Powerful & Effective Communication | Kerri Deloso and Mary Webster
Have you ever faced challenges when communicating for action and wondered what you could do differently to have an improved impact? In this session, participants will gain practical tips to communicate in a meaningful and powerful way. This session introduces Framing, a proven framework that provides tips and techniques to communicate in a way that encourages action. During this session, participants will begin to have an opportunity to apply framing tools to real world scenarios. Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
12pm LUNCH | DuBose House
1:15pm TEAM ACTIVITY – From Beginning to Now: Look How Far We’ve Come | Mary Webster and the ENRICH Team
Participant team members will have the opportunity to visualize their project journey through a timeline activity. Teams will have the opportunity for guided reflection and to display accomplishments. The session will close with an informal sharing of promising practices and a walkabout to view others’ timelines. Supplies will be readily accessible to aide in team creativity and fun! Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
2:45pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:15pm PLENARY – Sharing Decisions: HIV, Substance Use and Breastfeeding | Dr. Alison Stuebe
In this session, we will review new guidance on breastfeeding for birthing people with HIV or with substance use, exploring how we can support person-centered infant feeding decisions. We will review federal guidance on Infant Feeding for Individuals with HIV in the United States, which was updated in January of 2023, and we will explore new guidelines from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine on infant feeding in the setting of substance use. Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
4:15pm WRAP UP AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
6pm DINNER | Buffet with cash bar | Magnolia Ballroom
>> Wednesday, October 18
8:30am WELCOME | Catherine Sullivan
8:50am TEAM ACTIVITY – Highlighting the Power of “We” | ENRICH Team
9:15am PLENARY – Hyperbilirubinemia and the Breastfeeding Dyad: Shedding Light on Revised Guidelines | Dr. Laura Kair
This presentation will provide attendees with an overview of the causes of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, updated recommendations for the management of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns 35 or more weeks’ gestation, and an overview of ways that providers and organizations can support lactation and human milk feeding in the setting of hyperbilirubinemia. Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
10:15am REFRESHMENT BREAK | Hotel Check-Out If Still Needed
10:45am PLENARY – Moral Injury, Self-care, and the Healing Power of Story (Yours and Your Patients) | Dr. Fahmida Houssain
This presentation delves into how the experiences revolving around breastfeeding can reveal trauma and moral injury. Many young mothers come to motherhood already traumatized—carrying trauma—because of any number or combination of several social, physical, communal, and life-world factors and experiences. Motherhood is another experience in the context of this trauma, which can contribute to Moral Injury. Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
11:45am BOXED LUNCH | Magnolia Ballroom
12:30pm FRESH AIR BREAK – TAKE YOUR BELONGINGS
1pm ROUNDTABLE BREAKOUTS – Rotation among Hot Topics for Collaborative Learning
Choose three of the roundtable topics listed below for 25-minute rotations. Be sure to split up from teammates! Click to complete session evaluation and CERP credit.
2:30pm WRAP UP, NEXT STEPS, and PRIZES!
Click to share your feedback of this year’s LCM!
Roundtable Topics
1. Baby-Friendly USA: Smooth Transitions to Implementation of the Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria-6th Edition Including the Competency-based Training Requirements with Tammy Titus | This session will provide details regarding the transition to the revised Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria including updates to infant feeding policies as well as staff and provider competence.
2. Baby-Friendly USA: Planning for 2024 Phase Work and Assessments Plus General Q & A with Eileen Fitzpatrick and Angela Pittman | This session will provide general updates and clarify questions for facilities seeking designation or redesignation.
3. NC Department of Health and Human Services with Chiara Phillips and Kathy Griffin | Explore the North Carolina Division of Child and Family Well-Being’s infant feeding programs, including the WIC Program and North Carolina Maternity Center Breastfeeding Friendly Designation.
4. South Carolina WIC with Jenna Deaver | Let’s talk about progress! Through the pandemic and crises impacting South Carolinian mothers and infants, learn how SC WIC continued to see an increase in WIC breastfeeding rates among SC WIC participants.
5. Creating Impactful Messages through Framing Follow Up with Kerri Deloso | Join our table to continue building on the morning’s Framing plenary by follow-up discussion and further application of learned concepts to improve messaging related to your facility’s Ten Step Journey.
6. Inclusive Excellence: Courageous Conversations with Sherry Leonard and Catherine Sullivan | Join us on a journey where we’ll imagine ourselves helping our co-workers navigate patient care areas they feel less confident about. Which areas of support come easily? Which areas would you like more guidance on? This discussion promises to be rich and fruitful with take-away ideas for improved patient care.
7. Step Ten…and Who? You! with Brooke Gilliam | Let’s discuss COVID’s impact on community services then and now, and how resources are communicated to patients upon discharge. There is life beyond the resource list!
8. Prenatal Education: Finding What Works with Michelle Hendricks and Mary Webster | Share your successful and not so successful experiences with your Step 3 journey and walk away with fresh perspectives and new ideas for sustaining your successes and improving your processes.
9. Staff Training Ideas with Chris Masterman | Participants will engage in a collaborative discussion of creative staff training (Step 2) strategies, followed by an optional example learning activity.
10. Support and Sustainability with Julia Bourg and Meredith Mastromauro | Participants will discuss and brainstorm key steps and strategies for support and sustainment of evidence-based care and quality improvement efforts.
Plenary Speakers
Eileen FitzPatrick, DrPH, MPH, RDN, CLC, has been the CEO of Baby-Friendly USA, Inc., since January 2021. Prior to that she was chair and professor for the Nutrition Science Department at Russell Sage College. During that time, she trained undergraduate and graduate students for careers in dietetics and other nutrition professions. Her research experience includes work with New York State Department of Health quality improvement programs that supported breastfeeding and maternity care practices in hospitals and communities. She received a MA and PhD in Public Health with her doctoral work focused on maternity care practices and breastfeeding. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications and has presented original research at many professional meetings.
Dr. Alison Stuebe completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She completed fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s, and she earned a MA in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. She is currently a Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Infant and Young Child Feeding at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She has been awarded grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the American Heart Association. Her current research focuses on advancing justice, belonging and humanity in maternal health. She is a member of the Steering Committee for Moms Rising North Carolina, and she is actively engaged in professional organizations. She is a past president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and a former board member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. At the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, she is a member of both the Breastfeeding Expert Work Group and the Maternal Mental Health Expert Work Group, and she chaired the Task Force on Reinventing Postpartum Care.
Fahmida Houssain is a Certified Healthcare Ethics Consultant with a PhD from Duquesne University Center for Healthcare Ethics. She is a Fellow of Medical Ethics at the Ivy, Weill Cornell Medical College. She states, “The underpinnings of my research are narrative and storytelling.” Her vision is to positively transform contemporary medicine via Narrative Authority—a perspective and a method that is thoroughly other-oriented, dialogue-based, culturally sensitive, nonjudgmental and always story-dependent. Along with her work to profoundly influence bioethics, she is also passionate about advocating for the mental well-being of children and teenagers, highlighting the importance of nurturing their emotional health.
Dr. Laura Kair is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis. She serves as Medical Director of Well Newborn Care at UC Davis Children’s Hospital and works clinically as a newborn and pediatric hospitalist. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and as co-Managing Director of the Academic Pediatric Association’s Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) Research Network. She is passionate about evidence-based care of term and late-preterm newborns and healthcare equity, and she conducts clinical and health services research focused on improving parental and infant health through designing and implementing evidence-based interventions aimed at overcoming barriers to lactation and human milk feeding.
Guest Roundtable Topic Presenters
Jenna Deaver is the State Breastfeeding Coordinator for the SC WIC Program. She is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. Jenna has over 15 years of work experience with WIC in various roles. She is currently the State Breastfeeding Coordinator. She holds a BS in Human Nutrition from Winthrop University and completed her Dietetic Internship with Wellness Workdays near Boston, Massachusetts. Jenna currently serves as the Co-Chair of the SC Breastfeeding Coalition.
Kathy Griffin, MS, RD, has had a career in public health nutrition spanning three decades and has worked in various ways to ensure that the NC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) continues to be one of the best in the country. After graduating from East Carolina University, she began her work in nutrition at the Martin-Tyrrell-Washington District Health Department in northeastern North Carolina. Kathy briefly left public health for work in clinical and outpatient cardiac rehab settings before returning to NC Public Health as a Regional Nutrition Consultant. Kathy eventually stepped into the Program Manager role for the Regional Nutrition Consultant team, where she currently leads and works alongside six other remarkable consultants to ensure that the 85 local health departments across the state provide quality nutrition and health services to young families and other members of their communities.
Chiara Phillips, MS, RD, LDN, IBCLC, is a master-level registered dietitian and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with 15 years of experience in federal nutrition programs at the local and state levels, including the Summer Food Service Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). She is currently the State Breastfeeding Coordinator for the North Carolina WIC Program. In addition to oversight of the North Carolina WIC Program’s Breastfeeding program, she manages the North Carolina Maternity Center Breastfeeding Friendly Designation and North Carolina Breastfeeding Friendly Child Care Designation.
Angela Pittman has been with Baby-Friendly USA for the past nine years and currently serves as a Clinical Review Specialist. Prior to coming to Baby-Friendly USA, she retired from UNC Healthcare System, where she was employed for 34 years. Of those years, over 25 of them were spent in maternity services where she worked as an educator, nurse, lactation consultant and nurse manager. She has had the privilege and opportunity to care for mothers and their babies and work with many to see UNC Women’s Services receive the Baby Friendly USA designation.
Tammy Titus has served as the Clinical Director of Baby-Friendly USA for the past seven years. Prior to coming to Baby-Friendly USA, she coordinated the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in a large Midwest hospital, where she was employed for more than 34 years. Becoming a mother/baby nurse was a lifelong dream of Tammy’s. She has had the privilege of assisting mothers and newborns with breastfeeding for more than 30 years. Many of those years were spent working at the bedside of new couplets.
ENRICH Team Presenters
Julia Bourg, BSN, RN, IBCLC, is a Breastfeeding Healthcare Manager/Project Director with the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) in the Department of Maternal and Child Health within the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Over the past 8 years, in her role at CGBI, she has served as a breastfeeding specialist, clinical expert, training curriculum developer and technical assistance provider for multiple national and local initiatives focusing on improving birthing care and infant feeding outcomes. During her career, she has provided coaching and technical assistance to over 100 facilities nationwide. Julia is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She began her nursing career in maternity services specializing in maternal-newborn and neonatal intensive care. Within her local community in Southeast Louisiana, she has led multiple local change and quality improvement projects to improve lactation support and outcomes. She serves on various expert panels as well as participates in professional speaking engagements to provide education and motivation related to Ten Step implementation. She is a former elected member of the steering committee of the Louisiana Breastfeeding Coalition and previously has served as co-leader of the statewide clinical task force for The Gift Breastfeeding Initiative for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals-Bureau of Family Health.
Kerri Deloso, MHA, CLSSBB, is a Program Director at Population Health Improvement Partners where she coaches health-focused organizations on using process improvement methods, tools and philosophies in their own organizations to create meaningful, equitable and sustainable change. With over a decade of experience in improvement work, Kerri has partnered with a variety of organizations, including hospitals, health departments, community coalitions, multidisciplinary teams and clinics. As a Six Sigma Black Belt, she brings expertise in not only quality improvement methods, such as Model for Improvement, Lean, and Six Sigma, but also change management, systems thinking, effective facilitation and virtual learning. In addition, as a Project Director she leads curriculum and program development, implementation and evaluation. Kerri has worked on a diverse set of projects focused on building organizational capacity through training, improving organizational efficiencies, implementing evidence-based practices and bettering outcomes. Many of Kerri’s projects have focused on maternal and child health, and she has collaborated with organizations across the country to improve practices around infant feeding, pediatric office screenings, prenatal and baby oral health, and care provided to children with medical complexities. Specifically, she has been working with hospitals to implement the 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding since 2014 and has coached over 100 hospitals as a part of the ENRICH and EMPower collaboratives.
Brooke Gilliam, BSN, RN, IBCLC, is a Social/Clinical Research Specialist with the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI). At CGBI, Brooke serves as a Breastfeeding Specialist for EMPower Best Practices, a hospital-based quality improvement initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The project focuses on improving maternity care practices supportive of optimal infant nutrition through skill training and technical assistance. Brooke is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with more than 10 years of combined maternity nursing experience in the field of public health, community health and hospital care. Brooke works within her community of Greensboro, North Carolina, and globally, supporting, advancing and providing access to the field of lactation.
Michelle Hendricks, MBA, RD, LD, IBCLC, is a Social/Clinical Research Specialist with the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute. She most recently served as the Lactation Coordinator/Resource Center Manager at McLeod Regional Medical Center, where she functioned as the Project Lead for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. Michelle is a registered and licensed dietitian and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She previously served as the NICU/Pediatric Registered Dietitian at McLeod Regional Medical Center and has committed her career to promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding. Michelle has been involved in state and national collaboratives to improve the health outcomes of newborns and increase breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. She has been invited as a guest speaker to present her work and experience with implementing the Ten Steps, safe sleep practices and lactation telehealth. After graduating with honors from Auburn University with a BS in Nutrition-Dietetics, Michelle completed a coordinated program in Dietetics and received her MBA with a concentration in Marketing from Dominican University.
Sherry Leonard, MPH, is a Program Manager at Population Health Improvement Partners. Sherry has previously employed numerous quality improvement, standardization and Lean Mindset initiatives in the scientific and military sectors for over 15 years, including academia, industrial, CRO and deployment settings. She continues her endeavor at Population Health Improvement Partners through project management, data management and quality improvement support for current initiatives within the organization, including the ENRICH Carolinas Breastfeeding Initiative. Sherry received her MPH with a focus in Leadership and Epidemiology from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill and recently received a certification in Applied Statistics and Data Management with an emphasis on statistical programming at North Carolina State University.
Chris Masterman, MSN, RN, IBCLC, is a Social/Clinical Research Specialist with the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute. Chris is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has served as an OB nurse in several capacities since 2000, including roles as a Postpartum/Labor & Delivery nurse, Maternal-Infant Health Program community nurse educator, OB student nurse clinical instructor, perinatal unit Lactation Consultant and perinatal unit Nurse Educator. Chris currently lives in Muskegon, Michigan, with her husband and four children.
Meredith Mastromauro, MPH, is a Program Manager and QI Coach with Population Health Improvement Partners. She brings almost 10 years of experience facilitating QI trainings across the U.S. and has coached improvement teams from a variety of organizations, including local health departments, clinics, and community coalitions. As a communications lead, she specializes in Virtual Learning and creating engaging online material. A former teacher, Meredith received her Master of Public Health Leadership from UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2020. She enjoys working with teams at all stages of readiness for change and is committed to integrating equity into her coaching approach and training materials.
Catherine Sullivan, MPH, RD, LDN, IBCLC, FAND, is Director and assistant professor at the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI). Sullivan leads CGBI’s programmatic efforts in the areas of breastfeeding-friendly healthcare, childcare, communities, and in lactation training. She serves as CGBI’s Principal Investigator on the core leadership team of the CDC’s EMPower Breastfeeding Initiatives and leads ENRICH Carolinas and RISE: Lactation Training Model (Reclaiming, Improving, and Sustaining Equity). Additionally, Sullivan serves as course coordinator for the Mary Rose Tully Training Initiative, a CAAHEP accredited pathway 2 lactation training program. She served as State Breastfeeding Coordinator in the NC Division of Public Health (2006-2013) and has worked at the local level as a WIC Director and as field faculty for NC State’s Cooperative Extension Service. Additionally, she has been a faculty member and clinician in the Department of Family Medicine at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine (2000-2006). She is a registered and licensed dietitian and an international board-certified lactation consultant. Sullivan served on the executive board of the NC Breastfeeding Coalition for ten years. She has also served as Co-Chair of the NC Lactation Consultant Association, elected director to the United States Breastfeeding Committee, and is a past chair of the Women’s Health Dietetic Practice Group for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She was inducted as a Fellow for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2017. Sullivan is a frequent invited speaker with more than 100 presentations in the areas of lactation training, maternity care practices, breastfeeding advocacy and nutrition.
Mary Webster, MSN, RN, CPHQ, is a Senior Program Director at Population Health Improvement Partners. Mary provides a mastered skill set in coaching improvement teams across the country, as well as improvement science program and curriculum development. Her experience with training, leadership and team coaching has been honed by working in a variety of settings, including hospitals, clinics, community and public health. She has presented her work at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, NC Association for HealthCare Quality, National Area Health Education Centers and as part of TA provision within HRSA’s Infant Mortality & Children’s Complexity CoIIN. Her recent work includes technical assistance for the California Office of AIDS, MCHB workforce development, ENRICH Carolinas and EMPower Best Practices. Mary remains impassioned about coaching interprofessional work teams toward equitable population health outcomes. She is a registered nurse and certified professional in healthcare quality. She resides in coastal North Carolina.
ENRICH Team Support
Jessica Bridgman, MPH, RDN, LDN, works with ENRICH Carolinas to improve maternity care and breastfeeding rates. She prepares childcare industry professionals as they navigate and implement practices that support chest/breastfeeding families throughout their Early Care and Education (ECE) journey. Jessica’s work also includes Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) and expanding lactation Continuity of Care (CoC). She is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist with over 17 years of experience in the field of nutrition and dietetics and public health research.
Daina Huntley, MPH, CHES, focuses on preparing childcare industry professionals as they navigate and implement practices that support human milk feeding families throughout their Early Care and Education (ECE) journey. Daina’s work also includes Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) and expanding lactation Continuity of Care (CoC). She conducts trainings and provides one-on-one technical assistance related to the CGBI mission. She is an active member of the United States Breastfeeding Committee and a co-founder of Queen City Cocoa B.E.A.N.S., a Charlotte, NC, based organization with a mission to improve African American health through increased human milk feeding support.
Sara Massie, MPH, is the Interim Co-Executive Director at Population Health Improvement Partners with over 15 years of experience in the development and implementation of population health improvement programs both locally and nationally. She has expertise in overseeing complex, multi-partner collaboratives as well as guiding and facilitating community-based initiatives with diverse stakeholders. In addition, she brings expertise in coaching for quality improvement, developing data collection plans and tracking systems, and presenting data in clear, understandable ways. Sara received a BA in psychology with a concentration in gender studies from Davidson College and a MPH in health behavior and health education from the Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Kathy Parry, MPH, IBCLC, LMBT, is a team member of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute (CGBI) in the Department of Maternal and Child Health. At CGBI, Kathy is Director of Prenatal Breastfeeding Education and project manager for the ENRICH Carolinas project that works with birthing facilities in North and South Carolina to improve access to equitable and evidence-based care. She also serves as a team member for the CDC-funded EMPower Best Practices project and previously worked with the EMPower Breastfeeding and EMPower Training Initiatives. Kathy also supports global projects and communications for the institute. Her previous work at CGBI includes collaboration with Food for the Hungry on the development of three culturally-adaptable responsive feeding and attachment-related curricula for low-income countries fighting malnutrition and stunting. Kathy is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist (LMBT), a former Certified Educator of Infant Massage and a former DONA-certified birth doula. Her service work includes a staff advisor role for the graduate student group, Carolina BEBES, and ongoing participation in the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition, with 7 years on the executive board, including terms as Secretary and Chair.
Sharon Pengal is the Executive Assistant at Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute.She has worked in different industries before she moved to the world of public health.She has earned the reputation as a resourceful and entrepreneurial-minded person, multitasking across a broad spectrum of responsibilities. She enjoys optimizing her time and energy in the most positive way possible.
Judy Perry is a retired temporary employee for the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute at the University of North Carolina. In this position, she provides administrative support and manages all travel arrangements for CGBI ENRICH Carolinas team. Prior to her retirement in 2017, she served as the Financial Director for UNC’s School of Education. Judy currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC.
Robert A. Poarch is the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute communication specialist. Robert is a writer, editor, publications/social media manager and marketing and communications specialist with more than 20 years of experience. He has experience in healthcare marketing and communications at Mission Health, custom content publishing at Pace Communications, university press book production editing at Smithsonian Books and scholarly editorial at Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Poarch enjoys online learning courses, reading, photography and traveling with his family.
Victoria Stephens an accounting technician. She is interested in supporting staff with their office financial needs. She graduated from University of North Carolina Pembroke with a degree in Political Science with a minor in Criminal Justice and concentration in Pre Law. Victoria enjoys serving in her community and helping others. In her spare time, she enjoys couponing and traveling.
Visual Artist
Brittany Zeller-Holland is a visual thinker and life-long doodler. She has been graphic recording at professional events for eight years paralleling her 20-year career as a designer and illustrator. Energized by the collaborations, experts and innovations found in the many meetings she attends, Brittany’s hope is that her propensity for creating an organized flow of information and graphics fuels organizations into an inspired future!
Funding and Collaboration
The ENRICH Carolinas team is grateful to The Duke Endowment for sharing our vision to improve maternity care in the Carolinas. Based in Charlotte and established in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke, The Duke Endowment is a private foundation that strengthens communities in North Carolina and South Carolina by nurturing children, promoting health, educating minds and enriching spirits. Since its founding, it has distributed more than $4.0 billion in grants. The Endowment shares a name with Duke University and Duke Energy, but all are separate organizations.
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