WIC Program
Providing access to healthy foods and recommendations to keep you and your children healthy.
WIC Program
At Coastal Family Health Center, we’re committed to supporting the health and well-being of our patients and their families. That’s why we help eligible individuals enroll in programs like WIC, providing monthly food benefits tailored to your nutritional and medical needs. Our goal is to make sure no one has to compromise on healthy eating because of financial challenges.
Eligibility Criteria:
Applicants must meet all of the following eligibility requirements:
1. Target population:
- Pregnant women – during pregnancy and up to 6 weeks after the birth or the end of pregnancy.
- Postpartum women – up to the infant’s 5th week of life, or if
- breastfeeding, up to the infant’s 11th month of life.
- Infants – up to the infant’s 11th month of life.
- Children – up to the child’s 5th birthday.
2. Residence:
- Applicants must live in Mississippi.
3. Income:
- Applicants must have income at or below 185% of Federal Poverty Level
https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wpm-2019-4
4. Nutrition risk
- Applicants must be individually determined to be at “nutrition risk” by a health professional.
Learn more at http://www.msdh.state.ms.us/msdhsite/_static/41,0,128.html
WIC provides
- Monthly food vouchers
- Nutrition counseling
- Referrals for other health care services