Festival to Focus on Breast-Feeding
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The Northeast Valley Health Corporation will spotlight a federally funded program promoting healthy breast-feeding today at the Panorama Mall.
The free family festival--which will include information booths and consultations with the health center’s counselors as well as games and prizes for children--will be held between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The Panorama City event is one of six taking place throughout the city today as part of international Breast-Feeding Awareness Month, said Abel Sedillo, community relations coordinator for the health corporation.
The nonprofit health corporation, which is presenting the fair in conjunction with the Breast-Feeding Task Force of Greater Los Angeles, operates several health clinics and is one of the Valley’s largest social services providers.
More than 80,000 area residents currently participate in the health corporation’s Women, Infants and Children program, Sedillo said. The federally funded nutrition program provides supplemental food, education, counseling and improved access to medical care for pregnant women, new mothers and children 5 and younger, Sedillo said.
For more information about the Women, Infants and Children program, call the health corporation at (818) 361-7541.
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