Project Grant 258KS100W5413

The Kansas Department of Health & Environment received a $156,434 WIC National Infrastructure grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (CFDA 10.578) awarded on September 30, 2025, with a completion deadline of September 30, 2027. This project grant supports infrastructure improvements to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program delivery in Kansas. Based on the WIC Grants to States program parameters, the funding likely supports one or more of three eligible infrastructure objectives: enhancing program integrity and reducing waste, enabling WIC cash benefits at farmers markets, or modernizing management information systems (MIS) or electronic benefits transfer (EBT) technology to improve participant access and customer experience.

The award aligns with Kansas's established WIC administration portfolio, which currently manages $27.1 million in annual food expenses, $16.6 million in administrative costs, and $653,000 in breastfeeding peer counselor services. This infrastructure grant represents a targeted investment in operational enhancements to support more efficient and effective delivery of WIC benefits and services to eligible pregnant women, postpartum women, infants, and children across the state. The two-year project period allows for implementation and evaluation of the selected infrastructure improvement initiative.