The SDSU Research Foundation WIC Program is the 6th largest WIC agency in California and serves over 43,000 participants every month. We would would like to thank you for allowing us to share information on how the WIC Program can benefit your patients. The program provides:
- Individual nutrition counseling in addition to group classes.
- Supplemental foods that support the nutrition education messages.
- Breastfeeding education and support. Download SDSU WIC Breastfeeding Services HERE.
- Referrals to healthcare and social services.
As a healthcare provider, you are a key partner in helping WIC participants make healthy choices. Here you'll find WIC medical request forms, breastfeeding promotion materials, and other resources.
WIC needs your help to reassure new mothers and honor their decision to breastfeed. Your referrals to WIC for breastfeeding support are invaluable as is your reassurance to mothers that:
- breastfeeding is a normal process;
- it is normal for newborn infants to sleep often and for brief periods; and
- babies cry for many reasons other than hunger.
What can WIC do for you?
- Reinforce and expand on your nutrition recommendations to help keep your patients at lower risk for health complications.
- Provide your patients with WIC checks for specific nutritious foods such as vegetables and fruits, whule grains, beans milk and eggs.
- Exclusively breastfeeding mothers also receive an enhanced food package, in addition to other breastfeeding services listed HERE
- Make appropriate inter-community referrals for your patients.
- WIC encourages all new moms to breastfeed. For those who don't exclusively breastfeed, WIC provides supplemental amounts of WIC contract formula. Most infants who are not breastfed will need more formula than WIC is able to provide each month.
- Issuance of any therapeutic formulas, or medical foods, or WIC foods in addition to therapeutic formula to WIC participants requires medical documentation every 3 months by a healthcare provider with prescriptive authority.
Who does WIC Serve?
- Pregnant Women
- Breastfeeding women for up to one year after delivery
- Postpartum women for up to six months
- Infants
- Children under the age of five, including foster children
What are the eligibility requirements?
- Participants must be in a category served by WIC
- Participants must reside in California
- Participants must meet the WIC income guidelines. Please refer all of your low-to-moderate income families to WIC and the WIC staff will determine income eligibility at no cost.
How you can refer your patients to the WIC Program:
- Download a WIC referral form from this web site and fill in the required information:
- Pregnant Women
- Postparturn/Breastfeeding Women
- Pediatric
- Click on the link for the Referral Form you desire. A PDF document should begin to download immediately.
- Adobe Reader Required -Download Here
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- Include the following patient information in a prenatal booklet or on a prescription pad:
Name Height Birth Date Weight EDC Hemoglobin or Hematocrit results Documentation of any medical/nutritional risk factor
- Include your clinic address, sign and date the form.
Instruct your patient to call the SDSU Research Foundation WIC Program, Toll Free at 1-888-999-6897, for more information about WIC. Your patient will be referred to the WIC agency that best fits her needs. - Women wanting to remain on the WIC Program after their pregnancy will need to bring health information from their six-week postpartum check-up. A postpartum form can also be downloaded from this web site.
How to request additional information?
- If you would like more information on the WIC Program, please do not hesitate to contact our Outreach coordinators at (888) 999-6897 or contact us by
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- We are also available for presentations that will describe the WIC referral process and the benefits the WIC Program can provide to your patients.
- We at WIC look forward to working with you in providing services to WIC-eligible families.