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A WIC office in Santa Rosa, California in 2023.. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is an American federal assistance program of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for healthcare and nutrition of low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children under the age of five as part of ...
WIC program, the U.S. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children; Dutch West India Company, in the 17th and 18th centuries; West Island College, a system of three private schools in Canada; Western International Communications, a former Canadian media company
Painting by Carl von Bergen, 1904. In the United States, the Child Nutrition Programs are a grouping of programs funded by the federal government to support meal and milk service programs for children in schools, residential and day care facilities, family and group day care homes, and summer day camps, and for low-income pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children under age 5 in ...
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 participants are Latino (78%), Caucasian (8% ...
The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) is a United States federal law signed on October 11, 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.The Act was created as a result of the "years of cumulative successful experience under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) to help meet the nutritional needs of children."
The WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Act of 1992 (P.L. 102–314) established a program authorizing projects that provide participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) with food coupons that can be used to purchase fresh, unprocessed foods, such as fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets.
West India Company may refer to: . Danish West India Company, (1659–1776), Danish-Norwegian chartered company, also active in the slave trade; Dutch West India Company aka GWC or WIC (1621–1792), Dutch chartered company, with jurisdiction over slave-trade in the Atlantic, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America
In 1989, WIC state agencies began being required to spend funds targeted at breastfeeding support and promotion, including the provision of education materials in different languages and the purchase of breast pumps and other supplies. [7] In 1998, WIC state agencies were authorized to use funds earmarked for food to purchase breast pumps. [7]