When using these, please acknowledge the facility (or person) from where the resource originated or obtain permission to use and adapt.

Committee resources

Breastfeeding pledge/policy to families-Poster

• St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton
• Toronto East General Hospital

Breastfeeding policies

• Centretown CHC
• Grand River Hospital
• PCMCH policy templates
  • for hospitals
  • for community health services
• Somerset West CHC
• Michael Garron Hospital

BFI work plans

• Centretown Community Healthy Centre BFI work plan
• Somerset West Community Health Centre work plan
• St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton BFI work plan
• Timiskaming Health Unit Logic Model
• Toronto East General Hospital Constant Vigilance checklist

BFI resource checklist

• Ottawa Public Health
• Toronto Public Health

Binder Contents, Hospital

• Toronto East General Hospital

External assessment

• Toronto Public Health “We are ready” poster
• Toronto Public Health “We are ready” questions and answers for staff working with breastfeeding families

Skin-to-skin

• Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre policy for skin-to-skin care
• Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre policy for skin-to-skin care in the OR

Teaching and evaluation resources

Audit tool

• Feeding and skin-to-skin: St. Joseph’s Healthcare BFI Feeding Audit worksheet

Breastfeeding management tools

• Breastfeeding management tools developed by Grand River Hospital (acknowledge Lisa Dawson RN, IBCLC)
  • For the latching newborn
  • For the non-latching newborn

Clinical observation

• Clinical observation assignment for breastfeeding basics

Evaluation tool

• Sample in-service evaluation

Hand expression

• TPH Hand expression crossword
• TPH Hand expression crossword blank
• TPH Hand expression crossword with question
• TPH Hand expression crossword with answers

Medical indications

• Medical indications fill-in-the-blank activity sheet – Toronto Public Health
• Medical indications to supplement word search – Toronto Public Health

Client-centred resources

Hand expression

• Diagrams from Trillium Health Partners

Informed consent tool

• Grand River Hospital Parent Information Sheet
• The Ottawa Hospital