Healthcare

Healthcare Providers Outreach Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help you connect and establish relationships with healthcare providers in your communities. Inside this document, you will find best practices, tips, and resources to make […]

Healthcare Provder Toolkit: Establishing Referral and Data Sharing Processes with Healthcare Providers

“As an evidence-based, targeted intervention associated with improved health outcomes forits participants, WIC is critical to strengthening the healthcare system’s efforts to improvematernal and child health. While many healthcare providers […]

WIC Health Care Partnerships

Health Care partnerships are vital for WIC as they enable the delivery of integrated care, preventive practices, and personalized nutrition services. These partnerships facilitate enrollment, enhance health care access and […]

Advancing Health Equity to Achieve Diversity and Inclusion (AHEAD) in WIC Case Study: Morrisania WIC

In 2019, the National WIC Association (NWA) received a grant from the Walmart Foundation to support a two-year project aimed at Advancing Health Equity to Achieve Diversity & Inclusion (AHEAD) […]

New Hampshire WIC Targeted Outreach to SNAP and Medicaid Recipients

New Hampshire WIC receives daily files from the SNAP and Medicaid programs that contain names and contact information for WIC-eligible households recently determined to be eligible for SNAP and/or Medicaid. The […]

Association of Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children With Preterm Birth and Infant Mortality

In December 2019, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a national-based cohort study from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The goal of the study was to […]

An Examination of Community Partnership and Strategies Used in Conducting Nutrition and Food Security Research With Low-Income Pregnant Women

Recruitment of low-income minority populations, particularly women, into health-based research has faced challenges related to transportation, time, and lack of child care. However, collaboration between researchers and community-based health provider […]

WIC Works: Addressing the Nutrition and Health Needs of Low-Income Families for 40 Years

Over four decades, researchers have investigated WIC’s effects on key measures of child health such as birth weight, infant mortality, diet quality and nutrient intake, initiation and duration of breastfeeding, […]

Assessing Child Health and Health Care in the U.S. Virgin Islands Using the National Survey of Children’s Health

Objectives To characterize the health and health care experiences of children in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), assess differences by household poverty status, and provide comparisons to the general U.S. […]