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Our
Mission
WIC provides easy access to a safe, family-friendly,
and participant centered program that provides education to promote
good nutrition, health and breastfeeding in a respectful and culturally-competent
manner.
Keeping mothers, mothers-to-be, and their young children
eating well and staying healthy!
What You Can Get at WIC:
• Special checks to buy healthy foods at local grocery stores and farmer’s
markets
• Information about nutrition and health to help you and your family
eat well and be healthy
• Support and information about breastfeeding
your baby
• Help in finding health care and other community services
• Children’s prizes for immunizing
WIC Can Help If You Are:
• Pregnant, breastfeeding, or just had a baby
• Children under 5 years old (including foster children)
• Families with a low to medium income. Working families may qualify.
How Do I Apply for WIC Services?
Call us to make an appointment and find out which documents you need
to bring with you. At your appointment, we will help you make sure
you and your family qualify.
Our bilingual staff is ready to help:
• Watsonville (831) 722-7121
• Santa Cruz (831) 426-3911
WIC Plus Programs:
Lactation Support:
WIC provides peer counselor breastfeeding support to prenatal and
post-partum women to answer common questions about breastfeeding,
provide anticipatory guidance for common breastfeeding problems
and to provide assistance and support to those experiencing problems.
Regalo de Amor, the WIC Lactation Center, offer breastfeeding
support services to all WIC participants by appointment. Breastfeeding
support is also available by phone at 722-7121 x 116. WIC offers
two breastfeeding support groups, called Club Bebes, to Spanish-speaking
mothers with infants up to 6 months of age. Club Bebes is offered
every Monday from 10:00 - 11:30 am in Santa Cruz, and every Friday
in Watssonville from 9:30 - 11:00 am. Moms may come as often
as they like.
Through a collaboration with Watsonville Community
Hospital, the peer counselor staff conducts bedside rounds to
early post-partum women in the hospital every Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and every other Thursday from 8 am - 12 pm to help
ensure that breastfeeding gets off to a good start. WIC's bilingual,
breastfeeding staff includes two Internationally Board Certified
Lactation Consultants and four peer counselors/breastfeeding
educators.
VENUS (Vaccinate Every Newborn Under the Sun): Get your child immunized
and receive a free prize for your child! A collaboration between
WIC and the State of California Department of Health Services,
this project aims to increase the immunization rates of children
under
two. We are also a member of All
Kids By Two,
the Santa Cruz County immunization program.
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WIC
provides easy access
to a safe, family-friendly,
and participant-centered
program.
"The
WIC staff is very kind and their information really helped
me with my pregnancy."
–
WIC client
Families
gain breastfeeding
support and immunizations
at WIC.
"The
WIC program helped me with my education and counseling so
my children can be healthier."
–
WIC client
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