Families living with food allergies face many challenges accessing safe, affordable, and healthy food. On top of that, many disparities make these challenges worse for certain food allergy families. During today’s webinar, you will learn more about the health equity issues related to food allergy, including the racial differences between who develops food allergy and […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we deliver healthcare services indefinitely in the United States. As one example, telehealth rates have risen by as much as 1400% in healthcare settings. While breastfeeding and lactation support has predominantly taken place in-person, research shows that telelactation offers opportunities to increase access and convenience to breastfeeding support for […]
Renforcement de Capacites decisionnelles : Mere - Enfant (the Birth Empowerment Project) is an ongoing grant-funded project of the Opportunity Alliance WIC Program. Based on an initial series of multilingual, educational videos filmed in 2020, it seeks to empower pregnant and postnatal Portuguese, Lingala, and French-speaking WIC participants to utilize their voice and choice when […]
Updated every 5 years, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) play a pivotal role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of not just the public but WIC participants as well. Not only do they impact the nutrition education provided to participants but they're also a part of the science on which the WIC food package […]
This webinar will present findings from a multi-state survey conducted in 2021. The goal of the survey was to collect evaluate the impact of the increase to the cash value benefit for fruit and vegetables (CVB) in 2021. These preliminary results explore the relationship between the CVB increase and participant satisfaction and child fruit and […]
Introducing peanut foods to all babies in the first year has the potential to prevent tens of thousands of peanut allergies in participants of the WIC program every year. Yet, even after full support from the medical and expert community, there remains confusion and hesitancy to feed infants infant-safe peanut foods before 12 months of […]
On February 17, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an advisory warning consumers not to use certain powdered infant formula products produced by Abbott Nutrition. These products included Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare products produced in one of Abbott Nutrition’s facilities in Michigan, as well as their Similac PM 60/40. Join this webinar to hear […]
About 7.8 million children across the country live in households headed by grandparents or other relatives. Grandfamilies, or kinship families, are families in which children reside with and are being raised by grandparents or other extended family members or close family friends. Despite facing many barriers, children in grandfamilies are able to thrive. This session […]
Come learn about the WIC State Agencies participating in the USDA/Tufts Telehealth Intervention Strategies for WIC (THIS-WIC) grant opportunity and goals for the work. The Vermont (VT) WIC State Agency will also share their experience developing a new telehealth solution in the WIC setting. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded Tufts University a […]