Green Impact: Baby Friendly Gold 'Breastfeeding* and sustainability' project
As a department we are delighted to be currently participating in the Green Impact scheme hosted at the University as part of the Sustainability at York institutional agenda. We are currently undertaking our 'Breastfeeding and sustainability' Green Impact Project which aims to highlight the myriad sustainability benefits of breastfeeding and its positive impact on climate change. This Green Impact project supports progression activities for our unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) Departmental accreditation as Baby Friendly Gold.
Our activities include enhancing education on breastfeeding and sustainability in our pre-registration midwifery education curriculum, and raising awareness and sharing information amongst our university community of staff students and visitors. We are continuing to engage with our local community too, hosting monthly antenatal breastfeeding workshops led by local, volunteer run Treasure Chest Breastfeeding Group (York).
If you are a student or staff member who is interested in joining our 'Breastfeeding* and sustainability' project, we would love to hear from you - please email our Departmental BFI Lead helen.bedford@york.ac.uk
*Whilst we use the term breastfeeding on these pages, we acknowledge that chestfeeding is a preferred term for some people and we support breastfeeding and chestfeeding.