BLACK BREASTFEEDING WEEK
'We All We Got'
August 25-31, 2026
Upcoming Dates & Times
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August 1, 2026 - Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening, 10:00am-2:00pm
In partnership with the Hoboken Family Planning Team, PHEI will support Free screenings from 10am-2pm EST on Satruday August 1st 2026 10:00am-2:00pm
August 6, 2026 - Breastmilk Beyond Nourishment: Nature's First Medicine, 6:00pm-7:00pm
This webinar is led by PHEI’s Clinical Director, Dr. Juleen Johnson-Augustine. Dr. Johnson will discuss current breastfeeding rates in the state of New Jersey, areas of success and opportunities for improvement. During the webinar, she will also address, PHEI’s efforts to impact breastfeeding in the state of New Jersey, and introduce a reframing of the benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby. CLICK TO REGISTER
August 13, 2026 - Feeding New Jersey's future: The State of Breastfeeding, Policy, and Equity, 12:30pm-1:30pm
This webinar will be led by PHEI’s team of IBCLC’s, Policy Director, and Birth Justice/IBCLC. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |
August 13, 2026 - Breastfeeding Justice: Tru Doula, 6:00pm-7:00pm
In support of our community partner, Tru Doula, PHEI team member, Brittany Wright will facilitate a presentation entitled Breastfeeding Justice on Thursday August 13th 2026 from 6:00pm-7:30pm. Location: Boys and Girls Club Trenton New Jersey. 1040 Spruce Street. |
August 19, 2026 - Breakfast of Champions, 11:30am-2:00pm
August is World Breastfeeding Month, and Breakfast for Champions is where the Perinatal Health Equity Initiative gathers to meet that fight head-on. Join us on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. as we kick off our observance of Black Breastfeeding Week, August 25 to 31, under this year’s theme, “We All We Got.” This year’s breakfast holds New Jersey to its own promises. In 2019, the state passed laws expanding Medicaid coverage for lactation support and for donor human milk for babies born too soon. Six years later, the promise is still catching up to the law. The regulations needed to make donor milk accessible were not issued until 2025. The credentialing system that would let lactation providers actually bill Medicaid for their services, promised by 2024, still is not working, so coverage on paper is not yet care a mother can use. We will share where implementation stands, hear directly from mothers still living the gap, and write letters together that hold New Jersey accountable. Keynote speaker Clifton Kenon Jr. joins us to talk about building breastfeeding equity into every system meant to serve Black families. We will also present the Liquid Gold Award to this year’s honoree, announced soon, someone who has gone above and beyond for lactation support in our community. Our goal is $35,000. A full lactation visit costs $250, more than many mothers can pay, which is why PHEI offers every visit on a sliding scale, sometimes at no cost at all. Your gift closes that gap.
Everything beyond that keeps our policy fight funded: the letters, the testimony, the pressure that makes New Jersey answer for a credentialing system it promised in 2024 and still hasn’t delivered. That is not just a number. It is home visits, consultations, and a policy fight New Jersey cannot keep ignoring. Buy your seat. Bring a mother who needs this room. Or give what you can. Every gift moves us closer to $35,000, and closer to a New Jersey where breastfeeding support is not a fight Black mothers have to win alone. We all we got. Build with us. |
August 22, 2026 - PHEI Community and Mutual Aid Day, 1:00pm-4:00pm
| This is fun packed day of community engagement! More details soon! |
August 25, 2026 - From Our Ancestors to Our Children: The History and Legacy of Black Breastfeeding, 12:30pm-1:30pm
| The Perinatal Health Equity Initiative centers its lactation acumen in the fabric of historical context of the Black Breastfeeding experience. Grounded in research, evidence-informed data, PHEI strives to uplift the history of Black Breastfeeding experience and the structures that support and at times diminish the importance of human milk. This webinar will dive deep into the historical context of BLACK BREASTFEEDING, naming traditional practices that support breastfeeding, policies and procedures that interfere with the black breastfeeding experience, and the unique challenges Black women encounter along their infant feeding journey. Led by Founder and Executive Director Dr. Nastassia K. Harris. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |
August 26, 2026 - Black Lactation Provider Hands On Skills and Mixer, 2:00pm-6:00pm
| The Perinatal Health Equity Initiative centers its lactation acumen in the fabric of historical context of the Black Breastfeeding experience. Grounded in research, evidence-informed data, PHEI strives to uplift the history of Black Breastfeeding experience and the structures that support and at times diminish the importance of human milk. This webinar will dive deep into the historical context of BLACK BREASTFEEDING, naming traditional practices that support breastfeeding, policies and procedures that interfere with the black breastfeeding experience, and the unique challenges Black women encounter along their infant feeding journey. Led by Founder and Executive Director Dr. Nastassia K. Harris. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |
August 27, 2026 - Sistahs Who Breastfeed, 11:30am & 5:30pm
| The Perinatal Health Equity Initiative centers its lactation acumen in the fabric of historical context of the Black Breastfeeding experience. Grounded in research, evidence-informed data, PHEI strives to uplift the history of Black Breastfeeding experience and the structures that support and at times diminish the importance of human milk. This webinar will dive deep into the historical context of BLACK BREASTFEEDING, naming traditional practices that support breastfeeding, policies and procedures that interfere with the black breastfeeding experience, and the unique challenges Black women encounter along their infant feeding journey. Led by Founder and Executive Director Dr. Nastassia K. Harris. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |