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What Does WIC Provide?
Health screening including:
- Weighing and measuring to monitor growth.
- Identifying health risks.
- Checking blood iron levels.
- Assessment of diet and eating patterns.
- How to use foods to improve your family’s health.
- Parenting, especially as it pertains to feeding your children.
- Healthy lifestyle choices - avoiding tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.
- Information about the unique benefits of breastfeeding.
- Information to help you decide if breastfeeding is right for you and
your baby.
- Information about how to continue breastfeeding when returning to work
or school.
- Encouragement and help to continue breastfeeding.
- Connecting with other breastfeeding moms.
Help getting other services including:
- Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF).
- Housing and energy assistance.
- Access to food via food banks, community meals, etc.
- Each client receives checks to buy $40-$50 worth of healthy foods each
month.
- Women and children receive checks to buy milk, cheese, cereal enriched
with iron and low in sugar, juice high in vitamin C, eggs, and peanut butter
or beans.
- Infants receive checks for juice and infant cereal. For infants
who are not breastfed, WIC provides checks for iron fortified formula.
- During summer months at participating WIC clinics, WIC clients can
receive packets of Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks that allow them
to purchase up to $20 per person ($40 per household) of Washington grown
fresh fruits and vegetables at authorized Farmers Markets. To read more
about the Farmers Market Nutrition Program, visit
http://nutrition.wsu.edu/markets/index.html
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