Partnerships

Home Visiting Services

Webster County Health Department (WCHD) is located in rural Iowa and provides WIC services to a 5 county WIC service area. WCHD has integrated WIC certifications into the Maternal Health […]

Co-locating WIC and Healthcare

TrueCare is an FQHC Health Center that provides comprehensive healthcare in San Diego and Riverside Counties in California, including prenatal and pediatric healthcare as well as WIC services. TrueCare providers […]

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 […]

Formative research to examine collaboration between special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children and head start programs

WIC and Head Start (HS) programs both serve similar populations, and while HS is a day care program for low income children, it also provides nutritional services. Yet, limited overlap […]

Summary of WIC State Agency Strategies for Increasing Child Retention

During spring 2014, WIC State agencies were canvassed to obtain information on strategies that are used or planned to retain child WIC participants. It is currently estimated that only 53.6% […]

Proceedings: WIC Participant Retention Strategies: Pre-Conference Workshop

This resource includes presentations from the Pre-Conference Workshop on WIC Participant Retention Strategies. The workshop is summarized below: WIC caseload decline has been a concerning phenomenon for a number of […]

NWA’s Efforts to Recruit and Retain WIC Participants

“NWA’s Mission: The National WIC Association (NWA) provides its members with tools and leadership to expand and sustain effective nutrition services for mothers and young children. The WIC program is […]

WIC Outreach and Retention Survey Report

“The WIC program is facing caseload declines across the country. WIC participation has fallen from a high of 9.2 million participants in 2010 to a current participation level of around […]

Building Stronger Clinical and Community Partnerships

Gateway Community Action created this poster to highlight their local work encouraging breastfeeding friendly businesses and promoting healthcare referrals through the WIC Rx pad. This poster was developed as part […]

Making Americans Healthy in Every Hometown

As part of the CPHMC project, NWA and their partners on this initiative convened for an annual Training and Technical Workshop. After his participation in the April 2017 meeting Jay […]