Breastfeeding Supportive Child Care (BSCC)™
It's our goal to help you develop deeper bonds with the infants and families in your care, become a genuine resource for your community, establish healthy eating habits from infancy, and implement our high standard of infant care to authentically grow your infant program.
Watch the recorded presentation below to get an overview of your program and how it functions.
Steps for Your Certification:
Step #1: Fill out the BSCC Questionnaire
Step #2: Complete the Requirement Checklist
Step #3: Submit your proofs
Step #2: Complete the Requirement Checklist
Step #3: Submit your proofs
How to Submit:
Please email all required assignments IN ONE DOCUMENT, and upload all of your proofs via PDFs. Copy and paste everything into one document and submit to Kelly@successfulbreastfeeding.org.
Once your documentation is submitted, you will receive your certification within 4-6 weeks of submission. If there are any errors, you will be notified and given the opportunity to submit your changes.
Requirements for Certification:
Your facility has 1 year from application date to complete these requirements. Certification is valid for 5 years, with yearly survey to be completed. Facility check, education updates (if any) and $200* certification maintenance investment required to update certified status every 5 years. This is to cover the cost of yearly certification maintenance.
● At least one full-time, primary infant care staff will have active BSCE status.
*One BSCE required to maintain certification. The certified individual must work directly with the infants, and communicate with families on a daily basis. If a BSCE is no longer on staff at facility, it’s the facility’s responsibility to inform Successful Breastfeeding within 30 days, and the facility can apply for a grace period to hire or certify another BSCE. Failure to comply will result in the suspension of your certification. We recommend certifying more than one caregiver for this reason, though it is not necessary.
● All infant care staff attend the Baby Led Feeding Practices Workshop ™ and hold a completion certificate.
*We understand that staff turnover is common in child care facilities. Certified facilities will have lifetime access to the online BLFP Workshop to train new hires. It is your responsibility to report staff changes, and get them trained, within 30 days of their start date. You will receive your access to unlimited training after your certification is complete.
● Facility has a well designed, easy to manage breastmilk storage and rotation system, as well as policy to reduce breastmilk waste.
*Copy of said breastfeeding and breastmilk handling policies will be turned in to be evaluated for certification. These policies comply with the Baby Led Feeding Practices.
● Breastfeeding literature and posters with evidence based information will be available and displayed in the facility.
*Successful Breastfeeding LLC has the approved and required materials, and resources available. You can view these required materials in the Online Store. Outside materials may be used if the child care center so chooses. All outside material needs to be research based, and requires approval from Successful Breastfeeding LLC. You will submit pictures of your facility with the literature displayed in your facility as part of your certification process. These materials are to be displayed at all time as a requirement of your certification.
● All caregivers will comply with the Baby Led Feeding Practices ™ for ALL babies, and will track feedings to help mothers maintain their milk supply. *Information about this will be asked in the yearly survey. You must incorporate the Baby Led Feeding Practices as part of your policies and procedures. Provide proof of the implemented policy.
● Must have a written policy that clearly reflects ways for staff to support breastfeeding mothers, including up-to-date resources available.
*Policy to be submitted and reviewed for certification.
Please Include in your policy: Facility is accommodating of the needs of a mother needing to express milk, offering a private space to do so if mother requests it. AND Facility allows mothers to nurse their babies at drop-off, pick-up, and/or on their work breaks if a mother requests it. Breastfeeding Supportive Facilities may not turn a mother away who needs to nurse or express her milk. Doing so will result in suspension, or permanent loss of certification. *You do not need to have a designated "nursing room" but you may NOT deny a mother the opportunity to nurse/pump if she needs to.
● Breastfeeding Supportive Return to Work Plans ™ will be available to mothers as part of the orientation to the facility, in addition to referral to a Lactation Professional for pump fitting.
*You will be provided access to the Back to Work Workshop for FREE for all of the families in your care.
Your facility has 1 year from application date to complete these requirements. Certification is valid for 5 years, with yearly survey to be completed. Facility check, education updates (if any) and $200* certification maintenance investment required to update certified status every 5 years. This is to cover the cost of yearly certification maintenance.
● At least one full-time, primary infant care staff will have active BSCE status.
*One BSCE required to maintain certification. The certified individual must work directly with the infants, and communicate with families on a daily basis. If a BSCE is no longer on staff at facility, it’s the facility’s responsibility to inform Successful Breastfeeding within 30 days, and the facility can apply for a grace period to hire or certify another BSCE. Failure to comply will result in the suspension of your certification. We recommend certifying more than one caregiver for this reason, though it is not necessary.
● All infant care staff attend the Baby Led Feeding Practices Workshop ™ and hold a completion certificate.
*We understand that staff turnover is common in child care facilities. Certified facilities will have lifetime access to the online BLFP Workshop to train new hires. It is your responsibility to report staff changes, and get them trained, within 30 days of their start date. You will receive your access to unlimited training after your certification is complete.
● Facility has a well designed, easy to manage breastmilk storage and rotation system, as well as policy to reduce breastmilk waste.
*Copy of said breastfeeding and breastmilk handling policies will be turned in to be evaluated for certification. These policies comply with the Baby Led Feeding Practices.
● Breastfeeding literature and posters with evidence based information will be available and displayed in the facility.
*Successful Breastfeeding LLC has the approved and required materials, and resources available. You can view these required materials in the Online Store. Outside materials may be used if the child care center so chooses. All outside material needs to be research based, and requires approval from Successful Breastfeeding LLC. You will submit pictures of your facility with the literature displayed in your facility as part of your certification process. These materials are to be displayed at all time as a requirement of your certification.
● All caregivers will comply with the Baby Led Feeding Practices ™ for ALL babies, and will track feedings to help mothers maintain their milk supply. *Information about this will be asked in the yearly survey. You must incorporate the Baby Led Feeding Practices as part of your policies and procedures. Provide proof of the implemented policy.
● Must have a written policy that clearly reflects ways for staff to support breastfeeding mothers, including up-to-date resources available.
*Policy to be submitted and reviewed for certification.
Please Include in your policy: Facility is accommodating of the needs of a mother needing to express milk, offering a private space to do so if mother requests it. AND Facility allows mothers to nurse their babies at drop-off, pick-up, and/or on their work breaks if a mother requests it. Breastfeeding Supportive Facilities may not turn a mother away who needs to nurse or express her milk. Doing so will result in suspension, or permanent loss of certification. *You do not need to have a designated "nursing room" but you may NOT deny a mother the opportunity to nurse/pump if she needs to.
● Breastfeeding Supportive Return to Work Plans ™ will be available to mothers as part of the orientation to the facility, in addition to referral to a Lactation Professional for pump fitting.
*You will be provided access to the Back to Work Workshop for FREE for all of the families in your care.
These certifications will be monitored by Successful Breastfeeding, LLC. Any and all grievances filed or complaints received will be taken very seriously, and investigated. Successful Breastfeeding LLC holds the right to revoke certification if the certified party violates the standards they are sworn to uphold in their BSCE and/or CBSC Code of Conduct.
A yearly facility maintenance check will be completed and submitted within 30 days of receipt. The survey will ask questions about staff, certification compliance, number of breastfed infants and the length of time breastfed in your facility, as well as the number of families who are utilizing the Return to Work Workshop. We are looking to track progress in breastfeeding duration, as well as hold the facilities accountable to their certifications. Families of the CBSCs will also have the opportunity to provide feedback about the CBSCs and the BSCEs who are supporting them. We are looking for insights to help us make the program better for you, and we are looking to track data to prove the positive impact this program is making in our communities and for relationships between child care provider and family. We take quality control very seriously.
A yearly facility maintenance check will be completed and submitted within 30 days of receipt. The survey will ask questions about staff, certification compliance, number of breastfed infants and the length of time breastfed in your facility, as well as the number of families who are utilizing the Return to Work Workshop. We are looking to track progress in breastfeeding duration, as well as hold the facilities accountable to their certifications. Families of the CBSCs will also have the opportunity to provide feedback about the CBSCs and the BSCEs who are supporting them. We are looking for insights to help us make the program better for you, and we are looking to track data to prove the positive impact this program is making in our communities and for relationships between child care provider and family. We take quality control very seriously.
ONLINE STORE COMING SOON!!!!!!!
Additional materials will soon be available through our online store.
Additional materials will soon be available through our online store.
Examples of Breastfeeding Supportive Posters and Literature for display and distribution:
(Available SOON in the Online Store)
(Available SOON in the Online Store)
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