Florida Association for Infant Mental Health

An invitation from our former Board Member, Allison Parish, and the FL Association of Healthy Start Coalitions:

In celebration of Black Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, we are partnering with The Children’s Movement of Florida for this exciting opportunity. We invite you, your community, friends and families to join us in watching the Chocolate Milk documentary and participate in a Facebook Live session. You won’t want to miss it!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chocolate-milk-documentary-screening-and-conversation-tickets-116764083517?aff=erellivmlt to receive a link on Friday, August 28, to access the film. You can watch it on your own time prior to the event.

On Monday, August 31, at 12:30 ET, we'll meet at https://www.facebook.com/ChildrensMovementFL/ for a conversation that centers on Black motherhood and illuminates the bold and courageous ways Black women have reclaimed and resisted a complicated history around breastfeeding and nursing.

8/13/20

FAIMH Vice President Jackie Romillo and Communications & Training Coordinator Christine Hughes Pontier were joined by Allen Yergovich of Kiwanis Florida at the United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education Demonstration School, where Congresswoman Donna Shalala donated a box of ClearMasks and our FACES ARE ESSENTIAL Kit.

This donation event, attended by several South Florida media outlets, was an exciting opportunity for FAIMH and our partners to share the importance of young children seeing the full faces of their caregivers. It also helps us spread the word to the community that this success of this program will depend on you! Our ability to raise the funds needed to donate ClearMasks + FACES ARE ESSENTIAL Kits to every child care program in the state will require each and every member and friend of FAIMH to donate and support us further by sharing this initiative with their network, friends and family.

Right now, tens of thousands of Florida's children are in the care of early learning teachers whose faces are mostly covered all day long, and that represents a threat to those children's healthy brain development and their lifelong mental health. FAIMH feels the urgency with which we must get these fully transparent masks to children--do you? Please help us by sharing our social media posts and emails about FACES ARE ESSENTIAL, and donate generously. 100% of funds donated go directly to this initiative. Every $75 will get 1 box of ClearMasks + a FACES ARE ESSENTIAL Kit to a child care program.

Learn more at faimh.org/faces

Donate by visiting faimh.org/donate or by texting FACES to 202-858-1233

If you represent an early learning program, you can get your program on our Priority List for donation.

If you represent a business or organization who wants ClearMasks for your own use, contact us about our Buy One, Give One program.