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Family Health Services: WIC (Women, Infants & Children)


WIC is a well respected, federally funded program that gives children a healthy start by encouraging optimal nutrition during the critical stages of development.  WIC participants have access to many benefits, including vouchers for healthy foods, ongoing nutrition education classes, meal planning assistance and breastfeeding instruction and support.

Health benefits of WIC

  • Premature births reduced
  • Fetal death rate reduced
  • Low birth weight incidences reduced
  • Long-term medical expenses reduced
Each month Outreach Health Services offers WIC services to more than 33,500 clients in 59 Texas counties.  Participants include middle- to low-income women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, postpartum or have an infant and/or children younger than five years of age.  Additional requirements include a need for improved nutrition, residence in the county where WIC services are provided and household earnings within the WIC Income Guidelines.

Referrals

Outreach Health Services WIC clinics can also provide information on the following topics/services:

  • Food pantries
  • Child-support enforcement
  • Texas Health Steps (EPSDT)
  • Family planning
  • Head Start
  • Housing services
  • Job banks
  • Prenatal care
  • Parenting classes
  • Literacy programs
  • Licensed child-care facilities
  • Migrant health services
  • Medical and dental services
  • Medicaid, TANF and Food Stamps
  • School and summer lunch programs
  • Shelters for the homeless
  • Substance abuse programs
  • Early Childhood Intervention

How to become a WIC participant

To schedule an appointment at a WIC office, call (800) 200-7121 or CLICK HERE to visit the "Search for Location" page of this Web site to find out if a clinic is located in your community.

For more information about the WIC program, please visit the Texas Department of State Health Services -WIC Web site at http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/wichd/default.shtm

WIC is an equal opportunity program that does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability.

  
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