•  Healthy Foods: WIC provides eligible participants with a variety of highly nutritious supplemental foods, including milk, cheese, eggs, peanut butter, beans, fruit juice and cereal. Breastfeeding moms get additional foods like tuna and carrots because of their increased nutritional needs. WIC encourages breastfeeding, since human breast milk is the best source of nutrition for infants, however, WIC also provides infant formula, as well as infant cereal and juice.
  
   Nutrition Information: Through the nutrition education offered by the WIC program, prenatals and mothers learn not only about their specific nutritional needs but also those of their infants and children. Participants are given menu and recipe ideas for well balanced meals as well as shopping tips. Individual nutrition counseling services are also provided.

Together, the  foods and nutrition activities will help you to have a healthier pregnancy, and will help your child grow up as healthy as possible. WIC can help women to have healthier babies; children who participate in WIC do better in school and have fewer medical problems.

•  Health Screenings: WIC provides free health screenings to all participants to determine nutritional risk. A nutritional risk is any problem, medical or dietary, which is caused by or is associated with what you eat. (Some examples: poor growth in a child, poor eating habits like picky eaters, and tooth decay.) WIC determines nutritional risk by measuring height and weight, doing a simple blood analysis, and reviewing each participant’s medical history and dietary intake.
  
   
• Health Care Referrals: WIC encourages and provides access to health care by providing participants with referrals to other community-based agencies and private providers. WIC staff are trained in community resources and can help participants find the help they may need.

• Pregnant women
   
• Women breastfeeding a baby less than a year old.
• Women who are not breastfeeding with a baby less than six months old.
   
• Infants
• Children up to the age of five.

In order to qualify, families are screened to determine nutritional risk and income eligibility. Moms, dads, or legal guardians can enroll infants and children in WIC.