California WIC Program >> Gilroy WIC Clinics
Below are WIC Clinics and Programs in Gilroy
WIC is a free supplemental nutrition program that provides nutrition education and breastfeeding support to help families eat healthy and stay well. WIC serves pregnant, post-partum and breastfeeding women, infants and children up to 5 years of age. Foster parents, step-parents, grandmothers and fathers with children can also apply…working families welcome! WIC follows a gross (before tax) income guideline. Working families can also apply.
Need help buying food? WIC is here to help! The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children - better known as the WIC Program - serves to safeguard the health of low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement diets, information on healthy eating including breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to health care. WIC is a Federal grant program for which Congress authorizes a specific amount of funding each year for program operations. The Food and Nutrition Service, which administers the program at the Federal level, provides these funds to WIC State agencies (State health departments or comparable agencies) to pay for WIC foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion and support, and administrative costs.