Our Mission
To develop and deliver learning opportunities in lactation and breastfeeding skills from novice to expert.
Our Vision
To contribute to the health of mothers and infants by training breastfeeding supporters to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding.
Our Core Values
We are committed to providing outstanding customer service, professional courtesy in our communications with others, and a dedication and commitment to helping students achieve their goals.
- We believe that every baby deserves human milk.
- We believe that every nursing parent deserves an empowering lactation experience.
- We believe equipped and motivated practitioners inspire parents to achieve their lactation goals.
- We believe it is our responsibility to apply evidence-based, relevant, and inclusive education techniques to train aspiring lactation consultants.
- We are committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity among nursing parents, our students, our staff, and instructors.
- We adhere to the International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes.
Commitment to You
At LER, our hiring practices are ethical and inclusive. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, ability, marital status, sexual orientation, military or socio-economic status.
In our coursework, we strive to provide diversity of thought, lived experiences, and perspectives in the carefully culled expert content that you have come to value and expect from us.
But that’s not enough. Our promise and commitment to you goes beyond that.
We believe that the lactation field is bettered by more and diverse voices representing the communities they support.
We believe that equity is an action word and we are devoted to living equity in the way that we do business and cultivate future leaders in the field.
We believe that dismantling systems of oppression requires the removal of barriers for the most marginalized students and communities.
That is our commitment to you. We promise to do better, to be better, and to better equip the field to avail human milk to every tiny human.
About Lactation Education Resources
Lactation Education Resources (LER) helps you be the best possible lactation consultant by teaching you the skills you need to provide high-quality, evidence-informed care.
LER has the most comprehensive, up-to-date online catalog of lactation courses available, bringing together the knowledge of highly experienced and cutting-edge instructors from around the globe. With options for beginning and advanced providers, LER supports your learning throughout your entire lactation consulting career.
Our friendly and responsive expert team is on hand to help you choose the right course for you, assist with your tech needs and answer your questions about the content, now in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese.
Offering credits for lactation consultants, nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, pharmacists and doulas.
Learn more here.
