Percentage of Women Enrolled in Connecticut WIC who Gained Appropriate Weight during Pregnancy and Gave Birth during Federal Fiscal Year 2015 October 2014 – September 2015 a
This report identifies reasons why eligible women do not enroll in WIC during pregnancy and the characteristics of women reporting each reason in California.
Using the Maternal and Infant Health Assessment (MIHA) 2013-2014, this report presents key indicators of maternal and infant health for women who participate in the California Women, Infants and Children […]
The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is managing a small-grants research program, funded by USDA FNS. Through a competitive process, UCLA awarded seven grants in June 2012. The two-year projects to academic researchers, in partnership with WIC agencies, focus on the role that the WIC program is playing and can play in improving nutrition in pre-conceptional and periconceptional (between pregnancies) periods. FNS and UCLA anticipate that the grants will foster future collaboration and additional outside funding, along with findings that can inform WIC program development and nutrition education nationwide. Grantees presented their findings at a grantee conference in August 2015. Descriptions of the small grants awarded are available on the web at: https://www.fns.usda.gov/ops/role-wic-program-improving-peri-conceptional-nutrition-small-grants-program.
Pilot quality improvement intervention did not create sustainable change and did not improve eating or physical activity behaviors in WIC mothers
