The Daviess County Health Department announces the receipt of additional funding in the amount of $7,000 to improve its local WIC clinic. The funds will be used to enhance efforts to provide better service to clients. The Health department will receive two work stations, refinish and upholster lobby chairs, paint for the lobby area, digital baby scales and standing adult scales, educational toys, easel and a locking cabinet printer stand.
This website brought to you in part by the following sponsor:
Find out how to advertise here - Email us! [email protected]
The White House Office of Management and the Budget has released WIC’s Program Assessment tool used by staff to assist them in making budget assessments and recommendations. WIC has received the highest rating a program can achieve.
OMB’s rating of effective found that: · WIC has a positive impact on key health outcomes. Evaluations provide strong evidence that WIC has a positive impact on (1) the incidence of low birth-weight, and other key birth outcomes, and that these positive effects lead to savings in Medicaid costs and (2) children’s intake of key nutrients and immunization rates.
· Available program funds are utilized efficiently to maximize service to eligible participants. Over the last 15 years the national average WIC food package cost has increased at a rate below the general rate of food inflation. · While WIC is largely meeting its long-term performance goals, challenges remain. As the proportion of children who are overweight or at risk of overweight has grown in both the WIC and non-WIC population, combating childhood obesity remains a challenge.
At the same time, OMB and USDA have indicated that WIC is taking the following actions to further improve the performance of the program:
· Initiating changes to the food package to reflect current nutritional guidelines, promote breastfeeding, and better address the health risks facing WIC population, including childhood obesity. ·Monitoring State food package cost and cost containment efforts to promote continued cost efficiencies. · Promoting efforts to address childhood obesity by supporting special state projects, which will build on previously developed WIC specific obesity prevention interventions. For more information or to set up a WIC appointment please call 660-663-2414 or Toll Free at 866-663-2414. WIC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer: services provided on nondiscriminatory basis.