Health Care Reform
Harnessing the Power of WIC to Advance Health Care Reforms
The CalAIM initiative, California’s Medi-Cal transformation, provides opportunities for WIC and health care to be more closely aligned for whole person care with access to health care and social drivers of health. The resources here provide information on how WIC is a key partner in health care and the historic reforms taking place in California.
Our Work in Health Care Reform
Preventive Nutrition Services: Joining Health Care Reforms
In this brief, we recommend health reforms to improve nutrition access and education by linking services and programs among health providers, health plan administrators, and community organizers.
Perinatal Nutrition Counseling Services for Low Income Women in California
In this report, we focus on the vital role nutrition plays in perinatal and neonatal health and the benefits of higher-intensity perinatal nutritional counseling.
TeleWIC: Keeping Up With the Times
This report introduces videoconferencing as a way to bring WIC services into alignment with the expectations of participants.
Breastfeeding Support in Medi-Cal: Large Return, Small Investment
New opportunities for WIC and public health to join efforts are available now and unfolding in the future.
Charting a New Course to Improve the Quality of Prenatal Care
The journey toward ensuring optimal prenatal care is ongoing, with continual advancements and shifts necessary to meet the evolving needs of expectant mothers.
Impacts of Breastfeeding Support, Supplies, and Counseling on Health Insurance Premiums and Costs
New opportunities for WIC and public health to join efforts are available now and unfolding in the future.
Updating WIC for a New Generation
This brief summarizes demographic characteristics, market data, and provides a glimpse of some WIC-related millennial research.
Meeting Challenges, Managing Change: CA Hospital Breastfeeding Rates Fact Sheets
This policy update on California breastfeeding and hospital performance includes important data on exclusive breastfeeding by ethnicity and in-hospital and exclusive breastfeeding rates.
Using Data to Drive Change: California State Fact Sheets
Policymakers and advocates have relied on publicly reported data to guide, evaluate, and monitor initiatives aimed at increasing breastfeeding rates throughout our diverse state. And these efforts have led to a steady rise in in-hospital exclusive breastfeeding rates.
Bringing Breastfeeding Home: Building Communities of Care
Because hospitals may be the only places where mothers can access skilled support, many mothers struggle to meet their breastfeeding goals after they leave. Support must continue beyond the hospital walls.
Breastfeeding Support: Community Clinics and the ACA Requirement
New opportunities for WIC and public health to join efforts are available now and unfolding in the future.
Nutrition and Breastfeeding Interventions Under Health Care Reform
New opportunities for WIC and public health to join efforts are available now and unfolding in the future.
Closing Health Insurance Gaps for Families
For this report, The Children’s Partnership joined with CWA to determine the extent to which WIC sites can increase health insurance for their participants, and the most effective strategies for doing so.
