This program provides supplemental nutrition to low-income, pregnant, lactating, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five.

The program is designed to improve health outcomes and influence lifetime nutrition and health behaviors in a targeted, at-risk population. This is done through:

• Nutritional screening, education, and counseling to improve eating behaviors and reduce or eliminate nutrition problems in persons identified at 185% of the federal poverty level or below
• Monitoring growth patterns of infants with a focus on the first year of life and continues through five years of age
• Providing access to preventative health programs and referrals to private or public health care providers
• Providing checks for the purchase of selected foods to supplement diets lacking in nutrients needed during critical growth and development
• Providing blood lead screening of all pregnant women and enrolled children as well as any resident in Butte-Silver Bow referred by a local physician or health care provider
• Referring clients with elevated blood lead levels to the Residential Metals Abatement Program

 Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services WIC webpage