Highlighted Facts
- The USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, popularly known as WIC, provides foods, nutrition counseling, and access to health services to low-income women, infants, and children
- Louisiana WIC currently provides services to 125,000 participants a month through 130 clinic sites
- The impacts of WIC have been well documented and include: - 20 to 33 percent reduction in late fetal death rates - longer pregnancies leading to fewer premature births and reducing the number of low birth weight infants - each dollar spent on WIC represents savings in health care costs from $1.77 to $3.13
- Louisiana Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP), another USDA nutrition program, is designed to supplement the diets of low-income pregnant and post-partal women, children to the age of 6 and seniors over the age of 60 - One of 26 CSFP programs nationwide, Louisiana’s CSFP is the second largest with 76,000 participants
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