WIC breastfeeding peer counselors(o)

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded $187,114 to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services on October 1, 2025, under the WIC Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557) to fund breastfeeding peer counselors. The award carries a period of performance through September 30, 2027, and performance takes place in New Hampshire.

The WIC program provides federal grants to state agencies for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education, including breastfeeding promotion and support, for income-eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five determined to be at nutritional risk. This formula grant is one component of New Hampshire's WIC funding stream, which the state agency distributes to local agencies to support program operations. The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services administers entitlement and discretionary federal funding programs across health, human services, nutrition assistance, child welfare, homelessness prevention, and aging services, with the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service among its top funding sources by award count.