LOCATION: Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

ORGANIZATION TYPE: Non-for-profit advocacy

FOCUS AREA: Children / Families, Food security / Nutrition, Health Care Delivery, Public Health, Public Policy

HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVES: - Advocating for increased food access in low income communities. - Documenting health disparities in breastfeeding in California Hospitals in a widely disseminated Annual Report Card and pushing hospitals to improve their cultural competency and early feeding services to low income mothers. - Documenting and advocating for improved lactation accomodation for working mothers in low-wage worksites. Advocating for healthier foods in neighborhood stores via the implementation of healther new foods in the WIC Program in 2009.