Pregnancy related services, child care, early learning initiatives, child support
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Prevention, Retention, and Contingency (PRC) Program is designed to help families overcome immediate barriers to achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. Benefits and services are for needy and low-income families who need short-term help during a time of crisis.
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WIC: Women, Infants and Children
About
WIC is the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. WIC helps income eligible pregnant and breastfeeding women, women who recently had a baby, infants, and children up to five years of age who are at health risk due to inadequate nutrition.
The program improves pregnancy outcomes by providing or referring to support services necessary for full-term pregnancies; reduces infant mortality by reducing the incidence of low birth weight (infants under 5.5 pounds are at greater risk of breathing problems, brain injuries and physical abnormalities), and provides infants and children with a healthy start in life by improving poor or inadequate diets.
WIC provides nutrition education, breastfeeding education and support; supplemental, highly nutritious foods such as cereal, eggs, milk, whole grain foods, fruits and vegetables, an iron-fortified infant formula; and referral to pre-natal and pediatric health care and other maternal and child health and human service programs.