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Sheila Janakos Discusses The Benefits of Colostrum For Your Baby In a recent interview with online health platform Giddy* Sheila discusses the health benefits of colostrum for newborns. Click here to learn all about the many benefits of this perfect first food for babies. In a recent interview with online health platform Giddy*, Sheila discusses the health benefits of colostrum for newborns. Click here to learn all about the many benefits of this perfect first food for babies. *Please note that Giddy is an honest, candid and colorful sexual health on...

Cassi Janakos Works to Empower Women with UC Santa Cruz Legacy Endowment Cassi Janakos Works to Empower Women with UC Santa Cruz Legacy Endowment "To whom much is given, much is required" is a quote from John F. Kennedy that guides Healthy Horizons COO and Co-Founder Cassi Janakos as she works to help empower others. A 2011 University of California, Santa Cruz graduate, she created an endowment for the UC Santa Cruz feminist studies department to create her legacy endowment to her alma mater. Click here to learn more about Cassi and her gift for those i...

Sheila Janakos Featured in FemFounder’s “Your Story” Female Entrepreneur Series Sheila Janakos Featured in FemFounder’s “Your Story” Female Entrepreneur Series In a recent interview with FemFounder, Sheila spoke about her journey as Founder and CEO of Healthy Horizons. Thank you for your hard work and dedication, Sheila! Click here to read Sheila's advice to fellow entrepreneurs: "Don't be afraid to take a risk"

BASF and Emerson Join Businesses Providing Vital Employee Benefit BASF and Emerson Join Businesses Providing Vital Employee Benefit Healthy Horizons is proud to announce the grand prize winner of our 2021 Lactation Room Giveaway is BASF. Employee Janessa Dukes nominated their Freeport, TX location for the prize. BASF won a lactation room prize package of $5,000 from Healthy Horizons and our partnering brands. Click here to learn more.

Sheila Janakos on how Smart Companies Provide Lactation Rooms Sheila Janakos on how Smart Companies Provide Lactation Rooms Sheila Janakos, MPH, IBCLC wrote an article for HR Future Magazine’s February 2022 print edition on a vital benefit missing from most businesses across the country: a safe, clean and comfortable lactation room. As families assess returning to work after the birth of a child, or after remote work during the pandemic, a space to comfortably pump and store breast milk can be a factor in the decision making process.

How Employers and Employees Are Reworking Work Together: An Interview with Sheila Janakos, CEO of Healthy Horizons and Karen Mangia, VP of Salesforce Sheila Janakos was recently interviewed by Authority Magazine on the post-pandemic work environment. In the interview, Sheila discusses how the COVID-19 shut down has affected where and how we work, as well as how employers and employees need to find a middle ground to move forward in both the hybrid and in-person shifting work environment. Click here to read more of Sheila’s interview with Authority Magazine.

Virtual Support Groups for Moms Bolster Mental Health During Pandemic COVID19 Brings New Mental Health Challenges for New Moms. Healthy Horizons Launches Virtual Support Groups for Socially Distant Advice and Support. For 30 years, Healthy Horizons has been providing support groups for breastfeeding moms. When the pandemic hit, Healthy Horizons quickly transitioned their in-person support groups to a virtual format. “We knew that moms would need even more support during the pandemic crises,” said Healthy Horizons Founder and CEO Sheila Janakos. “We had to me...

Lactation Room Upgrade 2021 Nominate a Deserving Organization to Receive a Lactation Room Upgrade Worth $5,000+ Do you know of a workplace that needs a safe, clean space for working moms to pump breastmilk or feed their babies? Nominate them for Healthy Horizons 3rd Annual Lactation Room Upgrade. A deserving organization will receive lactation equipment, services and supplies valued over $5,000 from Healthy Horizons and our sponsors. Plus three families will receive prizes for breastfeeding mom worth $500. Nominate an ...

Healthy Horizons to Give $5,000 Lactation Room Upgrade to Support Breastfeeding Working Moms Nomination Period Opens for Healthy Horizons 3rd Annual Lactation Room Contest Prizes Valued Over $5,000 Will be Awarded Based on Positive Impact to Chest/Breastfeeding Employees. August 4, 2021 – San Francisco, Calif. – In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, Healthy Horizons, the Silicon Valley-based provider of Corporate Lactation Programs across North America, is accepting nominations for their annual Lactation Room Upgrade Contest. Healthy Horizons will award a deserving organization...

Healthy Horizons Donates Breastfeeding Classes to Benefit Stanford Bing Nursery School Healthy Horizons and the Stanford Bing Nursery School share a vision to help families with young children thrive. Healthy Horizons empowers breastfeeding parents to thrive at work and at home. The mission of the Stanford Bing Nursery School is to promote understanding of child development and improve the lives of young children. Earlier this spring Bing Nursery School hosted their 32nd Annual Harvest Moon Auction. All proceeds of the auction went to benefit the Bing Nursery School Schol...

Healthy Horizons Awarded 2021 Gold for Best Baby or Maternity Services by Bay Area Parent Magazine Healthy Horizons Receives Prestigious Award for Second Year in a Row San Francisco, CA - Healthy Horizons Breastfeeding Centers is proud to be the Best of the Best in the Bay Area Gold Winner for Baby or Maternity Services-Peninsula for the second year in a row. Bay Area Parent Best of the Best Awards are awarded annually and voted on by readers. Healthy Horizons is honored to win thanks to happy Bay Area families. “We are honored to be voted Bay Area Parents Best of the Best Baby and Mat...

Healthy Horizons Media Kit | 2021 About Healthy Horizons Healthy Horizons™ empowers breastfeeding and chestfeeding parents at work and at home. Healthy Horizons is the trusted corporate lactation partner of top workplaces, including Ford Motor Company and PayPal. Employers work with Healthy Horizons to provide safe, comfortable and inclusive workplaces for parents with growing families. Services include employee lactation benefits; on-site lactation rooms; parent education; and baby gift programs. Healthy Horizons also...

Healthy Horizons Stands in Solidarity with the AAPI Community Many of us at Healthy Horizons have been troubled by the recent rise in anti-Asian expressions of cruelty in our communities. We have team members who are members of the AAPI community and many of us live and work in San Francisco Bay area and other areas where our friends, neighbors and colleagues are experiencing violence and discrimination. It's not okay. We believe that a community is stronger when everyone thrives together. Let's supports one another in difficulty, defend t...

She set out to help breastfeeding moms but ended up helping corporations Silicon Valley Business Journal named Sheila Janakos to its esteemed circle of C-Suite Award honorees and featured her story to inspire others. An excerpt follows: The secret to Sheila Janakos’ professional success is part great idea, part need and part serendipity. When Janakos had her first child, she wanted to breastfeed her daughter but had some difficulties. Her doctor was not much help, her own mother had not nursed, and her search for professional guidance came up short. “I realized wh...

Breastfeeding cuts moms' risk of breast cancer, study shows San Francisco Gate's report of a Kaiser Permanente study of breastfeeding women in Northern California also included coverage of Healthy Horizons. According to the article "The research found that breastfeeding is not only good for babies but appears to be beneficial to mothers who are diagnosed with breast cancer later in life. Looking at the medical histories of more than 1,600 women diagnosed with breast cancer, researchers discovered that those who had breast-fed had a 30 percent ...

How Healthy Horizons Responded to COVID-19 and Won the Stevie Awards We are proud to share that last month Healthy Horizons won the Stevie Award for most valuable corporate response to COVID-19. This was a part of the 17th Stevie Awards for Women in Business: "Most Valuable Corporate Response" to COVID-19. This award was created to honor the contributions of individual women and women-led organizations that have worked valiantly over the past months to keep our community safe, healthy, employed, and informed. “Necessity is the mother of invention” bec...

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