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Resource | Policy Memos Process for Funding WIC Management Information Systems (MIS)

This memorandum provides additional information on the new approval process and includes sample documents that will assist state agencies with their funding requests.

11/24/2010
Resource | Research Plans WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Study Final Implementation Report

Breastfeeding promotion and support is a central tenet of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The Loving Support Peer Counseling Program is an initiative designed to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration rates for WIC participants, as well as to increase community support for WIC participants who breastfeed.

06/01/2010
Resource | Research and Data | Breastfeeding WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Study Final Implementation Report

This study provides a comprehensive and systematic picture of the implementation of the Loving Support Peer Counseling Program. Phase I, the Implementation Study, describes the process of the Loving Support Peer Counseling Program implementation in those States that accepted breastfeeding peer counseling grants. Phase II, the Impact Study, will address the research question of what intensity of peer counseling is necessary to increase duration of breastfeeding once the program has met the standards of the FNS model.

06/01/2010
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2008

WIC Participant and Program Characteristics summarizes the demographic characteristics of WIC participants nationwide in April 2008, along with information on participant income and nutrition risk characteristics, a national estimate of breastfeeding initiation for WIC infants, and a description of WIC members of migrant farmworker families.

01/01/2010
Resource | Policy WIC Infant Formula Rebate Reviews

The purpose of this policy memorandum is to provide guidance concerning a state's responsibility to properly conduct rebate billing and collection activities and provisions which should be included in a state agency's RFPs or IFBs and contracts for infant formula rebates to avoid rebate billing discrepancies.

03/12/1996
Resource | Policy FNS Instruction 812-2: WIC Program Closeout Procedures: Unliquidated Obligations on the Final SF-269, Financial Status Report

WIC Program—Closeout Procedures:  Unliquidated Obligations on the Final SF-269,  Financial Status Report

08/03/1984
Resource | Guidance Documents Purchase of Medical Equipment (SNP)

FNS Instruction 815-1 Purchase of Medical Equipment 

07/13/1981
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