WIC Center - Women, Infants and Children Program

Contact

718.250.8126

Locations

Downtown Campus

121 DeKalb Avenue Ground Floor (Main Entrance), Brooklyn, NY 11201

718.250.8126

 

Coney Island

485 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11218

718.282.8904 ext. 221/222

 

Bedford Stuyvesant

1606-1608 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11213

718.774.6701/6300

 

Crown Heights

495 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY 11225

718.467.0010

Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a health care intervention program that provides nutrition education and professionally prescribed food packages to eligible individuals. WIC creates a productive interplay between our health care center and the food consumption patterns of mothers and young children with inadequate diets.

WIC Services

     - Healthy Lifestyle Program – Improving nutrition, setting
       target goals, and Enhancing Physical activity (INSTEP)
     - Quality nutrition education and services
     - Breastfeeding education and support through Peer Counselors
     - Monthly supplemental nutritious foods at no cost to
       participants
     - Linkage to prenatal and pediatric health care services
     - Smoking cessation education
     - Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) – offering fruit
       and vegetable vouchers

Patient Enrollment Information

WIC Outcomes