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WIC: Improving the Nutrition and Health of Families' for Forty Years

Posted by Debra Whitford, FNS Director, Supplemental Food Programs Division in Food and Nutrition
Nov 10, 2014

For 40 years, WIC has been improving health outcomes for pregnant women, infants and young children.  Today, we are celebrating this important milestone by visiting the first WIC clinic in America to distribute WIC benefits, officially known as the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children.  Check out the video below to meet the amazing staff of Bell County Health Department, who made history by distributing the first WIC benefits in Pineville, Kentucky back in 1974.

Category/Topic: Food and Nutrition