NLCA advocates for patient safety in lactation care and equitable access to clinical lactation services, while supporting breastfeeding families and IBCLCs.®

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®.

Our mission.

To empower and advocate for the holders of the IBCLC® credential in the marketplace, in legislation, and in policy.

Our vision.

Advancing health and patient safety by ensuring access to clinical lactation care by persons holding the IBCLC® credential.

2024 fall workshop.

Ethic in Research and Mentorship will take place on Tuesday, November 12. Earn valuable CERPs and CEUs.

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.

When you partner with NLCA, you join with diverse, collaborative, experienced lactation consultants ready to make a difference.

Moving forward.

Moving forward.

When you partner with NLCA, you join with diverse, collaborative, experienced lactation consultants ready to make a difference.

Contact us.

Have a question? Want to get involved? We’re just a mouse click away.

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.

NLCA is an HP2030 Champion
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We’re an HP2030 Champion.

As a Healthy People 2030 Champion, the NLCA has aligned itself with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ vision of a society in which all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan.