2017 Business X-Change - 8/9

Description

BUSINESS X-CHANGE –  Wednesday, August 9, 2017
 
Business X-Change meets regularly throughout the year at the Portage County Business Council office. A roundtable series of meetings that allows business owners and their employees the opportunity to discuss pertinent topics, learn from local industry leaders and, most importantly, learn from each other. 
 
There is no cost to attend and a continental breakfast is included.
 
7:30-8:30 am in the Portage County Business Council Foundation Room


Topic: “The Business Case for Breastfeeding”
 
Presented by:
      
Mary Droske, RN, BSN
Community Health Nurse
Portage County Health and Human Services

Program Outline: Help your business increase employee loyalty and retention, reduce employee absences related to caring for a sick child, and lower health care and insurance costs by implementing breastfeeding friendly policies through worksite wellness programs.

At this X-Change participants will learn:

• The benefits of breastfeeding.
• Impact of returning to work for a breastfeeding employee. 
• Return on investment for businesses that support breastfeeding employees.
• Resources needed and available to begin and sustain a lactation support program at the worksite.

About Our Speaker: Mary Droske received her BSN from University of Oshkosh in 2008. She has worked in Hospice Care, Communicable Disease Control and Maternal Child Care.

What is the Business X-Change? A roundtable presentation which allows business owners and their employees the opportunity to discuss pertinent topics, learn from local industry leaders and, most importantly, learn from each other.  Business X-Change meets regularly throughout the year from 7:30 - 8:30am at the Portage County Business Council office. 
 
 

Special THANK YOU to Portage County Health and Human Services, a Division of Public Health
for their sponsorship of this program.