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Alameda County Public Health Department - Hayward Wic
Location: Hayward, CA - 94544
Contact Phone: (510) 595-6400
Details: WIC (Women, Infants & Children) is a national nutrition education program that promotes healthy eating. Clients get nutrition advice, help with breastfeeding, referrals to other community services. They also get special checks to buy healthy food items such as fruits and vegetables, milk, cheese, whole grains, cereals, pure juice, and eggs. Studies show that clients who get WIC have healthier pregnancies and healthier children. WIC serves pregnant and breastfeeding women and parents raising infants or children under the age of 5 years. Foster parents, guardians and single fathers who have custody of their children can also get WIC. You must be low income to get WIC. WIC looks at your family income before taxes, and your family size. Working families can get WIC.

Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center Inc. - Hayward Wic
Location: Hayward, CA - 94531
Contact Phone: (510) 471-5913
Details: Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a supplemental nutrition and education program that helps families to stay healthy. WIC serves women, infants and children up to five years of age. Foster parents or legal guardians and migrant families with children below 5 can also apply. WIC provides nutrition education, breast feeding support and referrals to other community services. Participants receive checks for healthy food items that are very important sources of nutrients for optimum growth and development, especially for children and expectant mothers during the early part of their pregnancy. They can get vegetables, fruits, eggs, beans or peanut butter, milk, cheese, cereals, whole grains, juice, and formula.