WIC Requests for Funding Proposals (RFP # 2012-0917)

RFP # 2012-0917 ADDENDUM

Deadline April 19, 2012 4:00 pm

Please call the closest WIC Office serving your area for an appointment to apply for WIC Benefits: WIC Program Local Agency Listing

Click on the following link for the Guide to Connecticut Breastfeeding Nondiscrimination and Workplace accommodation Laws: Answers to frequently asked questions regarding your right to breastfeed in Connecticut.

Click on the following link for the Connecticut WIC Approved Food list effective October 1, 2011 WIC Program Food List/Participant ID Booklet.pdf

Click on the following link for the Spanish version of the Connecticut WIC Approved Food list effective April 1, 2010 SPANISH WIC Program Food List/Participant ID Booklet.pdf

SPANISH ADDENDUM to Food List Booklet-Additional Product October 1, 2011

For information on the Connecticut Department of Public Health American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program for Women, Infants and Children click here: http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3115&q=436370

Fraud and Abuse

Connecticut WIC assistance is intended for those families most in need of nutritional support. Fraud and abuse take resources away from those who need them most. If you have information about a recipient, vendor or health care provider who may be committing fraud or abuse of the WIC Program, email wicfraud@ct.gov or call 1-800-741-2142 toll free.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children–better known as the WIC Program–serves to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk by providing nutritional assessment and education, referrals to health care and nutritious foods to supplement diets.

Who is eligible?

• Pregnant women (through pregnancy and up to 6 weeks after birth or after pregnancy ends).
• Breastfeeding women (up to infant’s 1 ^st birthday).
• Nonbreastfeeding postpartum women (up to 6 months after the birth of an infant or after pregnancy ends).
• Infants (up to 1^st birthday). WIC serves 45 percent of all infants born in the United States.
• Children up to their 5^th birthday (fathers, grandparents, foster parents or other guardians may apply for WIC for their children).

What are the eligibility requirements?

• Must meet the income guidelines, which are set at or below 185% of the federal poverty income limit (WIC counts an unborn infant as a household member). 
• Be at nutritional risk; WIC uses 2 broad categories of risk: medically based such as low birth weight and diet based, such as poor eating habits.
• Must live in Connecticut (WIC does not require proof of citizenship or alien status and participation in WIC will not affect your immigration or naturalization status).

Click here for the Connecticut WIC Outreach Brochure

Click here for the Spanish Connecticut WIC Outreach Brochure