Closing Health Insurance Gaps for Families: WIC Can Make It Happen An issue brief on how to improve health insurance coverage for low-income families and children through WIC referrals and partnership.
Transitioning to Obesity Prevention: Harnessing WIC’s Success for Healthy Eating and Active Living A brief focusing on the success of WIC as an antihunger program to address the crisis of child overweight and obesity.
Preventing Overweight in Children Birth to 5 Years: An Overview for Decisionmakers An overview on child nutrition programs, the obesity crisis, and strategies to prevent obesity.
Overcoming Barriers to Breastfeeding in Low-Income Women A policy brief on the importance of breastfeeding for low-income infants and children as a strategy for prevention of obesity and chronic disease.
Breastfeeding: The First Defense Against Obesity An issue brief on the importance of breastfeeding as an early strategy to reduce overweight and obesity with recommendations for the continuum of care.
Changing WIC Changing Live: Transitioning to Healthy Eating and Active Living A framework for activating obesity prevention strategies in CA WIC
Increasing Exclusive Breastfeeding in WIC: The Power of Peer Counseling Issue brief on success of WIC breastfeeding peer counselors, outcomes and opportunity to impact obesity.
Early Outcomes: Impacts of the New WIC Foods Early impacts on participation, shopping, feeding, and breastfeeding, includes next step recommendations.
WIC Works: WIC Infants Get New Tastes Jarred Fruits and Vegetables Food package changes include fruits and vegetables for infants.
