This report presents some forward-looking ideas in the areas of integrating WIC with current opportunities in health care reform and prevention and expanding the use of WIC clinics.
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Harnessing the Power of WIC to Advance Health Reforms: 2023
CWA is supporting the WIC staff and agencies in understanding and engaging in CalAIM reforms. Here are related resources.
WIC Tech: A Matter of Equity
Modern technology can reduce inequities that prevent access to the program by offering more ways to engage participants and meet diverse needs.
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.
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.
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.