This institution is an equal opportunity employer and provider. 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 ½ 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, and iron-fortified infant formula; referral to prenatal and pediatric health care and other maternal and child health and human service programs (examples: Head Start, Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as Food Stamps). Thank you for being a fan of the Wood County WIC Program on Facebook. The Wood County WIC Program participates in Facebook in order to provide individuals, families, and partners with nutrition and breastfeeding news and best practices. While we encourage fans to share thoughts and opinions on our page, we expect that this will be done in a respectful manner. All links posted as comments on Wood County WIC Program’s page will be reviewed and may be deleted. A comment will be deleted if it contains:
· hate speech, profanity, obscenity or vulgarity;
· nudity (breastfeeding dyads excepted) in pictures;
· defamation, name calling and/or personal attacks to a person or people, or Wood County WIC Program employee;
· spam comments, such as the same/similar comments posted repeatedly on a profile;
· comments that would disclose protected health information;
· comments that include promotion of events, groups, pages, websites, organizations and programs not related to the promotion of healthy living, good nutrition, including breastfeeding or improved parenting; and
· other comments that Wood County WIC program director deems inappropriate. Violations of Wood County WIC Program’s comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from all Wood County pages. Information posted on any of our social media platforms should not be considered medical advice and should not replace consultation with a healthcare professional including an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant for breastfeeding issues or a Registered, Licensed Dietitian for nutrition questions. Wood County WIC Program will make reasonable efforts to monitor and/or moderate content posted on its social media platforms; however, we may not always respond in as timely a manner to online requests for information as you might require. For more immediate attention, call the Wood County WIC Program at 419-354-9661. By submitting content to Wood County WIC Program’s page, you understand and acknowledge that this information is available to the public. Please note that other participants may use your posted information beyond the control of Wood County WIC program. If you do not wish to have the information you have made available via this site used, published, copied and/or reprinted, please do not post on this page. All links to other websites linked from Wood County WIC program’s social media sites are provided as a service to readers, but such linkages do not constitute endorsement of those sites by Wood County WIC program or the State of Ohio and as such Wood County WIC Program is not responsible for the content of external websites. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
