1. Increase Champaign and Logan Counties breastfeeding/chest feeding duration rates to meet Healthy People 2030 goal of 42.4% exclusively breastfeeding through 6 months.
2. Increase breastfeeding/chest feeding as a health care intervention and disease prevention strategy in the state of Ohio, as it relates to infectious disease, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancers, etc.
3. Protect lactation as a natural civil right of parents, babies, and families.
4. Increase knowledge of the evidence-based role of breastfeeding/chest feeding in infant and maternal health, and the biological role of lactation in nurturing children