This $17,403,355.00 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service supports the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in the state of South Carolina. The grant, issued on October 1, 2024 with a completion date of September 30, 2025, funds administrative expenses for the WIC program, which provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding promotion, and referrals to health and social services for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five who are at nutritional risk. The South Carolina Department of Public Health, the state's centralized public health agency, will administer the WIC program and utilize the grant funding to deliver these critical nutrition services to eligible residents across the state.
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