Connecticut WIC Program >> New Haven WIC Clinics >> Fair Haven Health Center WIC Program
Fair Haven Health Center WIC Program - New Haven WIC Clinics
- Name
- Fair Haven Health Center WIC Program
- Address
- 350 Grand Avenue
New Haven, CT 06513
- Phone Number
- (203) 733-5007
- Fax
- Operation hours
- Mon: 8:30am - 5:00 pm; Tues: 8:30am - 7:00pm; Wed: 8:30am - 5:00 pm; Thurs: 8:30am - 7:00pm; Fri: 9:
- Type
- Clinic/Application Site
- Web Site
- http://www.fhchc.org/
- Services Offered
- Nutrition education through consultations with a nutritionist; Breastfeeding education and assistance through consultations with a lactation consultant; Vouchers for the purchase of supplemental healthy foods. Infant formula supplements are also provided for babies who are formula fed; Referrals for health care and other social services
- Description
- Fair Haven offers the state and federally subsidized Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) supplemental food program. WIC provides nutrition counseling and helps low-income mothers and their children buy nutritious foods. WIC helps low-income pregnant and postpartum women, and children up to age five, to buy the extra foods they need during pregnancy, infancy, and young childhood. Women and children must be low income and have a nutritional risk such as poor diet, low weight gain, or anemia in order to be eligible.
- Phone 2
- Contact Person
- WIC Foods
- Eggs; Milk; Cheese; Tofu; Cereal; Fruit/Vegetable Juice; Baby Foods in Jars; Infant Formula; Infant Cereal; Fruits; Vegetables; Bread/Grain: 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Grain Bread, Whole Wheat Tortillas, Corn Tortillas, Brown Rice, 100% Whole Wheat Pasta/Macaroni Products; Peanut Butter; Beans; Peas; Lentils; Canned Fish
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WIC Resources
- WIC Breast Feeding Support
Breastfeeding is essential in infant development and is recommended by the Women, Infant, and Child Program to be the best way of feeding babies. - WIC Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for WIC benefits, applicants must meet Categorical, Residential, Income and Nutritional Risk Requirements.