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The purpose of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' WIC Targeting Project is to assist WIC agencies in improving the targeting of WIC benefits to participants at highest risk in their states. With the Targeting Project, the Center's goal is to highlight effective activities already being carried out in some states and to make recommendations that other states can use to improve the targeting of WIC benefits. The findings of this Project are presented in this report.
This book reviews the scientific basis for nutrition risk criteria used to establish eligibility for participation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The volume also examines the specific segments of the WIC population at risk for each criterion, identifies gaps in the scientific knowledge base, formulates recommendations regarding appropriate criteria, and where applicable, recommends values for determining who is at risk for each criterion. Recommendations for program action and research are made to strengthen the validity of nutrition risk criteria used in the WIC program.
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers of and their infants and young children. Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. To assure the continued success of the WIC, Congress mandated that the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reevaluate the program's food packages every 10 years. In 2014, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine to undertake this reevaluation to ensure continued alignment with the goals of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In this third report, the committee provides its final analyses, recommendations, and the supporting rationale.
Abstract: This report addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, discusses the need to improve management effectiveness and to make better use of limited resources in the Food and Nutrition Service's Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The report contains recommendations which are intended to help ensure that the funds made for WIC are directed first to those among the eligible population who are the most vulnerable and thus likely to benefit the most from WIC intervention. Recommendations given include: targeting the most needy population groups; using professional authorities to reassess WIC participation standards; focusing greater attention on income eligibility of participants; and establishing stricter and more comprehensive participant file records.
Abstract: This report addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, discusses the need to improve management effectiveness and to make better use of limited resources in the Food and Nutrition Service's Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The report contains recommendations which are intended to help ensure that the funds made for WIC are directed first to those among the eligible population who are the most vulnerable and thus likely to benefit the most from WIC intervention. Recommendations given include: targeting the most needy population groups; using professional authorities to reassess WIC participation standards; focusing greater attention on income eligibility of participants; and establishing stricter and more comprehensive participant file records.
Abstract: This report is based on the responses to the Select Committee on Hunger's questionnaire and a review of information currently available on WIC Program operation. Topics discussed are program participation rates and funding, barriers to participation, innovations implemented to expand participation, and recommendations for improvement and expansion of the program service.