WIC improves access to healthy food for eligible individuals and their families by providing additional resources to purchase healthy foods, breastfeeding support, and nutrition education support. WIC participants include:

Women

• Pregnant( during pregnancy and up to six weeks after the birth of an infant or the end of the pregnancy). 

• Postpartum (up to six months after the birth of the infant or the end of the pregnancy)

• Breastfeed (up tp the infant's first birthday) 

Infants (up tp the infant's first birthday) 

Children (up the the child's fifth birthday) 

All WIC recipients must be at or under 185% of the Federal Poverty Line and be at nutritional risk. 

More information on eligibility: https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/applicant-participant/eligibility 

WIC is an equal opportunity provider.

We've worked to engage community members and our local WIC staff in identifying strategic opportunities for high-impact improvements. These include strengthening partnerships that work to enroll pregnant women into WIC during their first trimester, identifying opportunities to retain participation among children after their first birthday, building a stronger community understanding around the impact of WIC, and increasing community-based referral partnerships. 

• The state has implemented changes to foster a more participant-friendly environment and support the ongoing modernization of WIC services to prevent a lapse in food benefit issuance during the certification period.
• We have worked to create an expedited process for temporary eligibility for pregnant women who are at an appointment in our Prenatal Clinic.
• WIC is now offering a late clinic twice a month until 7PM.