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The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Division administers the California WIC program. This program helps families across the state by providing nutrition education, breastfeeding support, healthy foods and referrals to health care and other community services.
- How Can I Get WIC
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- How Can I Get WIC
The way WIC works is that if you’re pregnant, or a caretaker of a child under age five, you may be eligible to receive free healthy food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and more. We’re here to help you through the WIC program, step-by-step.
California has, by far, the largest WIC program in the nation. It is a program of the California Department of Public Health which administers contracts with 84 local agencies – half local governments and half private, non-profit community organizations – which serve 1.46 million participants at 650 local sites statewide (The majority of ...
WIC is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, a 100% federally funded program providing nutritious food (via prescriptive checks), individual counseling and nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to other needed services to at-risk, low-to-moderate income (up to 185% of the ...
Since 1974, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has supported low-income women, infants, and children up to age five at nutritional risk through food prescriptions, breastfeeding support, nutrition counseling, and referrals to health and social services.
WIC is a Nutrition Program that serves people who are pregnant, who have recently been pregnant, infants, and children up to their 5th birthday. Moms, dads, grandparents, foster parents, other caregivers, and guardians may apply for the children they are raising.
California WIC is making steady progress to re-place paper food checks with the California WIC Card. The WIC Card is an Electronic Benefit Trans-fer (EBT) system that will provide an easier way to issue food benefits and will improve the shopping experience for WIC families and grocers.