ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL - JOY

ELIGIBILITY

The WIC program serves low-income, nutritionally at risk:

• Pregnant women (through pregnancy and up to 6 weeks after birth or after pregnancy ends).
• Breastfeeding women (up to infant’s 1st birthday)
• Non-breastfeeding postpartum women (up to 6 months after the birth of an infant or after pregnancy ends)
• Infants (up to 1st birthday).
• Children up to their 5th birthday.

DESCRIPTION

Program services provide:

• A minimum of 4 nutrition education encounters offered each year for each WIC client in the family
• Nutrition counseling sessions, given by a Registered Dietitian for all clients determined to be at “High-Risk” by the WIC Nutrition Specialist.
• Nutritious foods offered on a WIC EBT Card
• Breastfeeding support to all women, including free manual breast pumps, electric pumps available for free to working/moms attending school if exclusively breastfeeding and on loan and at discounted price.
• Iron-fortified infant formula for clients up to the infants first birthday
• Special infant and child formulas, if after an assessment by a WIC Nutrition Specialist or Registered Dietitian shows a nutritional need
• Hemoglobin testing on our pregnant, postpartum and children clients, along with education on how to increase low hemoglobin with nutrition.
• Lead poisoning education to parents/caregivers
• Referrals to other health and social service programs
• The ACC WIC Program has continued to offer clients the opportunity to register to vote

ACC has one Breastfeeding Specialist on staff and three other Breastfeeding Specialists located in their 6 WIC clinics. In addition to our Breastfeeding Specialist staff, ACC WIC currently has three Certified Lactation Specialists and a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) on staff.

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