The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Maine DHHS) received an $839,478 Formula Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service on May 23, 2023 to provide services under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) through September 30, 2027. As the designated state agency to administer the WIC program, Maine DHHS will deliver supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and...
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services will receive $257,219 under a Formula Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The grant period is from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. Funding will support the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557) to provide low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five who are nutritionally at-risk with...
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services was awarded a $268,088 Formula Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to provide nutrition education and breastfeeding peer counseling services from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. Specifically, the Maine DHHS will use the funding to support similar nutrition education and counseling services delivered by nine...
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services will receive $750,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557) from September 2022 through September 2024. The funding will support the WIC program's goal of providing supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and...
This federal Formula Grant award of $11,140,716.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557) provides funding to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to deliver supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to health and social services for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as...
This Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service provides $6,647,523 to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The funding supports the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) CFDA #10.557. WIC aims to provide low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five determined to be at nutritional risk with supplemental...
This $271,966 federal Formula Grant award is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program (CFDA 10.557). The grant will fund the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to provide supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to health and social services for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum...
This federal Project Grant award for $2,248,934.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the WIC Grants to States (CFDA 10.578) program. The grant will fund the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to make improvements and enhancements to the delivery of benefits and services for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition assistance program. Specific objectives include updating management information systems, enhancing technology...
This $6,532,608 Formula Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), CFDA 10.557. The grant supports administrative expenses and program implementation for the WIC program, which provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, and health care referrals to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age five...
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services received a $101,583.93 Formula Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The grant funding supports the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) for the period of October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The WIC FMNP, as outlined in the CFDA 10.572 program, provides fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables and herbs to women, infants, and children participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition...