United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The USDA's Strategic Plan Framework includes a statement on improving nutrition and health by providing food assistance and nutrition education and promotion and enhancing food safety. Both of these goals are addressed in the working documents of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.
The 2010-2015 Strategic Plan includes the following strategies
One of the measures of WICs success is the increase in breast feeding rates of WIC mothers
From the Frequently Asked Questions about WIC page, here are some things that I did not know:
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The 2010-2015 Strategic Plan includes the following strategies
- Support tribal and State efforts to use electronic benefit transfer systems
- Strengthen breastfeeding promotion in both policy and program activities
One of the measures of WICs success is the increase in breast feeding rates of WIC mothers
- 48% breast fed in 2003
- 59% breastfed in 2008
- the goal set for 2015 is 65%.
From the Frequently Asked Questions about WIC page, here are some things that I did not know:
- To be eligible for WIC, women and children must meet income guidelines AND State residency AND independently be determined to be at "nutrition risk".
- Once a WIC office has met its maximum caseload new cases are added on priority levels.
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