Dear Friends:
    Back in the 1990s, there were plenty of non-peer  "peer counselors" at 
WIC. These were white women needing clinical hours to sit  the exam. While the 
advice and help they gave was useful, I always wondered what  the impact of a 
well-off woman (whose current concern was the state of the  renovations in her 
living room) was on a poor woman whose current concern was  having heat in her 
apartment. It wasn't truly peer counseling. There were plenty  of non-white, 
lower SES women who could have been peer counselors.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
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