WIC Breastfeeding Data Local Agency Dashboard

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) promotes and supports breastfeeding as an important part of the nutrition service benefits that the WIC program provides. The Child Nutrition Act requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to annually compile and publish breastfeeding performance measurements. The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service uses these data to monitor breastfeeding trends and to help identify exemplary performance of WIC state and local agencies in breastfeeding and make awards to such agencies, e.g., WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence and WIC Breastfeeding Performance Bonus Awards. 

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The FNS Central Analytics Team, housed in the FNS Office of the Chief Operating Officer, provides data management, visualization, and analytics leadership for FNS programs and offices in alignment with the USDA Data Strategy and Federal Data Strategy. The Central Analytics Team’s priorities include enabling FNS programs and operational divisions in the development of data visualization and analytics products to support informed decision-making, secure data automation and management to improve efficiencies, and federal employee training to cultivate a data-informed workforce and agency.