The Department of Agriculture Pennsylvania received a $100,403 Formula Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service on May 15, 2023 to support the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) through September 30, 2024.
As the state-level agriculture department, Pennsylvania Agriculture will administer the WIC program objectives of providing supplemental nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services for low-income pregnant and postpartum women as well as infants and children up to age five who are nutritionally at-risk. The Department will leverage the grant funding to deliver these services across the state in alignment with the goal of the WIC program to safeguard the health of vulnerable populations as outlined in the program description for CFDA 10.557.
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