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10. Provision of training and continuing education of peer counselors. ▪ Peer counselors receive standardized training using “WIC Breastfeeding Curriculum, Learn Together, Grow Together”.
Peer counselors participated in monthly, virtual breastfeeding peer counseling meetings. All peer counselors are expected to participate in any staff meetings, training activities sponsored by their local WIC Program when deemed appropriate from the DBE/IBCLC, peer counseling management staff and WIC State and Local management staff.
2025 Trainings ▪ Peer Counseling teams celebrate 50 years of WIC. August 12, 2024, WICnic ▪ 11 Monthly Conference calls Monthly calls are led by the State BF PC Coordinator with BF PC team members (DBE/IBCLC) only attending quarterly (October, January, April, and July). Only peers attend the other months because peers expressed benefits from time together to discuss case studies, workflow and getting to know fellow peers.
▪ 10/24 Social media ▪ 11/24 No meeting ▪ 12/24 C-sections and breastfeeding, how to talk to participants to preserve breastfeeding if they have a C-section. ▪ 1/25 Reviewed/discussed USDA/FNS updated donor milk memo. General discussion on donor milk ▪ 2/25 University of Albany December 2025 Breastfeeding Grand Rounds debrief (recording: https://www.albany.edu/impact-social-media-breastfeedingchestfeeding). Discussed optimizing WIC documentation. ▪ 3/25 Tandem nursing ▪ 4/25 debrief (Seminar 4-24-25) ▪ 5/25 Discussion regarding wearable pump use. Peer checks in-space to ask questions and support one another. La Leche League of CT Healthcare Seminar ▪ 6/25 Use of speech messages sent via text message. Discussion/feedback on the ease of communicating with participants during the summer months. ▪ 7/25 Pacify Platform-training updates ▪ 8/25 WBW updates ▪ 9/25 Annual Civil Rights training
2026 Trainings (tentative) ▪ Food Package Changes ▪ Pacify follow-up ▪ Technical Assistance calls and meeting for program operations assistance and CT-WIC. ▪ Annual Civil Right training