 | | | New Social Media Toolkit: Nutrition Education WIC provides nutrition education tailored to the needs of families, offering practical guidance for healthy eating from pregnancy through early childhood. Through in-person and over-the-phone consultations with nutritionists and convenient online learning options, families can learn about essential nutrients, meal planning, shopping for WIC foods, kid-friendly recipes, creating positive food experiences for kids, and more. Our new social media toolkit, WIC Nutrition Education: Healthy Eating Made Easy for Families, can help you promote WIC’s nutrition education services, highlighting how it helps families develop knowledge and skills to make healthy eating easier and establish good nutrition habits that last a lifetime. |
| | | New Resources in Priority Languages Our new Get a Healthy Start with WIC flyer includes messaging about benefits and eligibility and is available in Arabic, Bengali, Simplified Chinese, French, and Haitian Creole. We’ve also added the following new resources to the WIC Resource Center: Visit the WIC Resource Center today to get these new resources and other materials to promote WIC to families in your community. |
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| | | Free Wanda Push Cards & WIC Factsheets WIC agencies and partners can connect families in their community to WIC using our Wanda push cards and WIC factsheets. Complete this order form to request free, professionally printed bulk orders of these resources in English and Spanish. Please allow 2-3 weeks for bulk orders to be printed and shipped. |
| | WIC Partners: Check Your Links to Wanda! Are you linking to Wanda on your website, in emails, or other communications? Please make sure you link to Wanda using WICHelpNY.org or https://hungersolutionsny.org/find-food-help/wic/. Other URLs, including shortened bitly links, are no longer operational and will not connect users to Wanda or WIC information. |
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| | Resource Round-Up A selection of resources from national partners and organizations committed to the health and well-being of young children and families. National WIC Association (NWA) NEW Center for Innovative Practices in WIC—NWA recently launched a hub for innovative strategies and solutions in WIC programs. WIC and Public Charge—NWA has updated a factsheet on WIC eligibility for immigrant and mixed-status families, as well as WIC's exclusion from the public charge test. Please share this resource with participants, colleagues, and community partners. (English) (Spanish) Championing Black Maternal Health - WIC As a Catalyst for Change—NWA explores the critical role of WIC in reducing Black maternal health disparities and leading the way in addressing racial and health inequities in nutrition, breastfeeding, and prenatal and postpartum outcomes. U.S. House of Representatives Black Maternal Health Caucus About Black Maternal Health—Information, data, research, and resources focused on elevating the Black maternal health crisis and advancing policy solutions to improve maternal health outcomes and end disparities. |
| | National Nutrition Month March is National Nutrition Month, an annual campaign established by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for everyone to learn about making informed food choices and developing healthful eating and physical activity habits. This year's theme is "Food Connects Us," focusing on how cultures, families, and friends impact our relationship with food and how what we eat affects our health. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics provides many educational materials in English and Spanish, weekly messages, and 50 ideas to get involved in National Nutrition Month. In addition, a social media toolkit is available with shareable graphics in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hindi. |
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