This webinar presented an opportunity to learn about ongoing efforts to improve food access in New Jersey through healthy corner store programming. Presenters: Karin Mille, NJ DOH Community Health and […]
This webinar focused on three different strategies that document the many significant impacts of WIC program participation. The strategies were: 1. Maximizing the use of WIC EBT data 2. Using […]
The webinar provided an update on the status of the NWA’s national recruitment & retention campaign. Presenter: Hannah Shultz, National WIC Association
The study compares distances to outlets for obtaining healthy, affordable food in tribal areas to those for the general U.S. population, with implications for improving the health of tribal populations.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) distributes Federal grants to State agencies for providing supplemental foods, nutrition education including breastfeeding promotion and support, and health […]
This biennial census provides detailed information on the demographic characteristics, economic circumstances and health conditions of WIC clients, along with information on the operational characteristics of State and local WIC agencies. The data are used for policy development, budget projections and regulatory impact analyses. Information about WIC participation characteristics has been prepared biennially since 1992 from administrative records provided by State agencies.
In a joint project with the USDA Economic Research Service, CARRA has been integrating data from state government agencies with existing Census Bureau data to evaluate and enhance public assistance programs. In 2014, CARRA and the National WIC Association began discussions to conduct similar research for state WIC agencies. By linking WIC administrative records with individual-level data from the American Community Survey, CARRA is able to identify the population in a state that is modeled as eligible for WIC benefits, those who participate in the program, and individuals who are modeled as eligible but do not participate. This project aims to provide state WIC agencies with trends over time and rates of eligibility, participation, and non-participation by various demographic and economic characteristics that can be used to improve state outreach efforts and maximize program efficiency.
Approximately every ten years, FNS conducts a nationally-representative survey of the characteristics of WIC participants and State and local agencies. The NSWP Series provides USDA with national estimates of certification- related errors and improper payments for use in USDA’s required reporting under the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA). The NSWP series also collects information on State and local WIC Agencies’ certification-related policies and operations in order to better understand both the policies and their potential associations with error, provides statistical sample-based estimates of the size and characteristics of LWAs nationwide, and provides information from a nationally-representative sample of WIC participants about their experiences with the WIC program. The last study collected data in 2009 and was published in 2012. The next study in the series was awarded in September 2015. Data collection is anticipated to begin in 2017.
FNS awards WIC Special Project Grants to be used for "special State projects of regional or national significance to improve the services of the program." In order to meet the statutory objectives, Special Projects need to address issues of critical and timely importance to the WIC program.
This study is designed to provide information that will allow FNS to update WIC data reporting efforts in order to provide information to support more in-depth analyses of program management, program performance, program & participant characteristics, integrity and monitoring.
