This combination of services is designed to create a support system that encourages families to feel confident in their own ability to maintain happy and healthy futures.
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The New Mexico WIC Program provides free healthy foods, ideas for healthy eating and maintaining good health habits, support for nursing families, and connects families with other community services. This page provides access to information about WIC for the public, WIC families, WIC Vendor Retailers, Health Care Providers, and Local Agency WIC Staff. Pregnant women with prior WIC participation receive prenatal care earlier. WIC improves the dietary intake of pregnant and postpartum women and promotes proper weight gain in pregnant women. WIC improves the growth of nutritionally at-risk infants and children. We provide healthy food at no cost, breastfeeding support, nutrition information, and referrals to about 35,000 people across the state each month. WIC reduces low birth weight rates and increases the duration of pregnancy. Arkansas WIC is a program within the Arkansas Department of Health. Welcome to the Nebraska WIC Program home page. WIC is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. See below for detailed information on WIC eligibility and income guidelines.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children – better known as the WIC Program – serves to safeguard the health of low-income pregnant, postpartum, and nursing (breastfeeding) women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating including nursing (breastfeeding) promotion and support, and referrals to health care. WIC clinics have procedures to help you get WIC benefits as quickly and safely as possible. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, & Children (WIC)