The WIC program in Ohio helps provide supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding postpartum women. The Van Wert 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 Van Wert County WIC Program 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 Van Wert 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 Van Wert County WIC Program director deems inappropriate. Violations of Van Wert County WIC Program’s comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from all Van Wert County WIC grantee 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 nutritional questions. Van Wert 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 Van Wert County WIC Program at 419-238-5886. By submitting content to Van Wert 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 Van Wert 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 Van Wert 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 Van Wert County WIC program or the State of Ohio and as such, Van Wert County WIC Program is not responsible for the content of external websites.
