NATIONAL LACTATION CONSULTANT ALLIANCE
Safe, equitable clinical lactation care starts here.
Safe, equitable clinical lactation care starts here.
Advocating for patient safety in lactation care and equitable access to clinical lactation services, while supporting breastfeeding families and IBCLCs®.
Advocating for patient safety in lactation care and equitable access to clinical lactation services, while supporting breastfeeding families and IBCLCs®.
The Center for Lactation Equity (the Center) Announces a New Scholarship for 2025!
The Center for Lactation Equity (the Center) Announces a New Scholarship for 2025!
The Center works towards strategies that will build an inclusive lactation community that understands, appreciates, and values equity, diversity, and cultural humility. One of the methods through which the Center seeks to do this is through scholarship opportunities for IBCLC candidates who are part of populations that are under-represented in the clinical lactation care community.
What’s New at NLCA:
World Breastfeeding Week Wall of Gratitude
What’s New at NLCA:
World Breastfeeding Week Wall of Gratitude
At NLCA, we’re here for you—through advocacy, education, and connection. In line with the 2025 World Breastfeeding Week theme, “Prioritize Breastfeeding: Create sustainable support systems,” we’re celebrating those who’ve supported you.
From August 1–7, we’re reopening our Wall of Gratitude. For a $10 donation, post a personal note thanking an IBCLC® who’s made a difference in your journey. Your tribute will be featured on our website and social media—and your donation will help NLCA keep advocating for IBCLCs® at every level.
Let’s pay gratitude forward and build lasting support for the profession.
Click here to honor your IBCLC® today.
Center for Lactation Equity
Center for Lactation Equity
Center for Lactation Equity
The Center for Lactation Equity (the Center) is the cornerstone of all the work we do here at NLCA. We remain in constant conversation with the communities in which we live and the lactation consultants we serve in an effort to achieve the Center’s inclusion and equity plans. As part of this conversation, we welcome feedback at any time to continue to grow this inclusive community.
Latest Publications
Latest Publications
What makes NLCA unique?
- We are lactation consultants working for lactation consultants and the breastfeeding families we serve.
- We prioritize safety for breastfeeding families through advocacy, promotion and clarification of the role of the holders of the IBCLC® credential in providing professional clinical lactation care.
- We work so that all breastfeeding families may equitably access clinical lactation care.
Our values.
We are Inclusive, Bold, Clinically Competent Leaders Committed to the advancement of patient health and safety through clinical care by holders of the IBCLC® credential.
Do you want an association that advances patient safety through working solely for you and the clinical care you offer breastfeeding families? Then join us.
