Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
WIC is a nutrition program that helps families feed their children healthy foods. WIC provides nutrition and breastfeeding information, healthy foods , and help accessing health care to families. The program is available to families with pregnant women, new mothers, and children under the age of five.
What Can WIC Offer My Family?
- Breastpumps to help you breastfeed even when you return to work.
- Benefits that can be used at the grocery store to buy healthy foods like milk, yogurt, whole grains, beans, juice, eggs, cheese, cereal, peanut butter and fruit and vegetables
- Help with breastfeeding your baby.
- Help in finding health care and other community services.
- Information about nutrition and health to help you and your family eat well and be healthy.
Can My Family Enroll In WIC?
WIC is for all kinds of families – families with married or single parents and those who are working or not working. WIC has different requirements than SNAP (Food Stamps) so even if you don’t qualify for SNAP, you may still qualify for WIC.