Neosho County is now one of the 24 counties that have received the Community Supporting Breastfeeding designation from the Kansas Breastfeeding Coalition, Inc.
The designation was presented by Brenda Bandy, the executive director of the KBC, which is a statewide nonprofit that works to promote breastfeeding by helping those that provide clinical support to breastfeeding moms.
The Community Supporting Breastfeeding designation was created in 2014. According to Bandy, they designed the program around a vision of what a “breastfeeding utopia” would look like.
(Read more: The Chanute Tribune)