The Public Health Agency of Canada, through the CAPC/CPNP National Projects Fund, funded the National Project of Breastfeeding between October 2005 and September 2007. This project, also known as Linking the Circles of Support for Breastfeeding in CAPC/CPNP,   was administered by the B.C. Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs (BCAPOP), a provincial organization representing over 50 community-based projects working with at-risk pregnant women, new mothers and their families. For more information on BCAPOP, please return to the main page of this website.

The main objectives of the national project on breastfeeding were:
• to facilitate the networking and sharing of breastfeeding related information between CAPC and CPNP projects across Canada and
• to develop a catalogue of resources used by CAPC and CPNP projects for the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding with their participants.

To this end, 3 newsletters entitled Keeping Abreast  were published and distributed to all CAPC and CPNP projects.  

The Breastfeeding Resources Catalogue was completed in October 2007.   It is a compilation of over 500 different breastfeeding resources and is the result of an extensive inventory conducted during the winter and spring of 2006. At the time, CAPC and CPNP projects across Canada were invited to submit the various tools they used in promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding with their participants, including locally made tools and resources.   More than 100 projects, from all provinces and territories across the country, submitted resources in both English and French.

The electronic versions of both newsletter and the catalogue are available from this site.   Please feel free to download and share with your coworkers and community partners.

Please note that all these resources are available in French and English. Click here to access the version en francais