WIC is a federally-funded health and nutrition program. It improves the lives of nutritionally at-risk women, infants and children. It is well documented that WIC is one of the nation's most successful and cost-effective nutrition intervention programs.   WIC provides:

• Support and assistance during critical times of growth and development
• Promotes actions that improve health and support healthy lifestyles
• Provides access to foods that are high in nutrients that are commonly deficient in the diets of low-income women and children
• Reduced miscarriages
• Provide a healthier start for babies
• Improved infant feeding
• Premature births reduced
• Low birthrate reduced
• Long-term medical expenses reduced
• Improved cognitive development
• Decreased incidence of iron deficiency anemia in children
• Help achieve recommended weight gain throughout pregnancy
• Increased early prenatal care
• Improved utilization of immunization services by children