• About WIC

WIC's Success in Improving Maternal and Child Health

WIC have the History of 32 Years on Buiding Healthier Families..EN ESPAÑOL

The health benefits from the WIC Program

The WIC Foods help kids grow healthy and strong

Welcome to WIC (PDF)

Prenatal care

Pregnancy & Cigarretes

The health benefits from Breastfeeding

"Breastfeeding the first hour"

The Food pyramid for kids

Finding the whole grains

Poor Diet and Bad Behavior

"Breastfeeding the first hour" in English and Spanish

Folic acid and Folate

Fruit and Vegetables for Better Health- PDF Englih and Spanish

WIC Have the History of 32 Years Building Healthier families

The creation of WIC was made by the Congress in response to the realization that hunger and poverty were widespread in the country and that inadequate nutrition poses real dangers and high health cost to the nation. WIC was proposed as a preventive program to improved access to health care in order to prevent nutrition-related health problems in pregnancy, infancy and early childhood.

“Since its beginning in 1974, the WIC program has earned the

reputation of being one of the most successful federally-funded

nutrition programs in the United States.saves lives and improves

the health of nutritionally at-risk

women, infants and children.”

In 1967 National Nutrition Survey revealed that many lower income children suffered from anemia and inadequate growth. These conditions can adversely effect brain size and cognitive ability. The study showed that children got off to a poor start both physically and mentally because they didn’t have enough to eat or they didn’t eat the right foods. Some children also suffered because mothers did not get adequate nutrition during their pregnancy.

WIC was authorized as a pilot program in 1972, but didn’t open its doors until two years later in 1974,when the first WIC clinic opened in Pineville, Kentucky.

Thirty-three years later, more than 8 million women, infants and children are participating in WIC and are receiving its benefits each month.

WIC is now in 2007 serving almost half of all infants and one-quarter of all children 1 to 5 years of age in the United States. their families into the broader health care system as well. As part of the WIC services provides, WIC clients have improves in their health by getting counseling, been screened and referred to other necessary health and social services, such as prenatal care, well baby care, and immunization services.