Mon Valley Community Health Services, Inc.

Mon Valley Community Health Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides health services to the community. According to the federal award history, Mon Valley Community Health Services, Inc. has received multiple federal grant subawards from the Pennsylvania Department of Health to provide nutrition services, breast pumps, and peer counseling through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). They have also received subawards from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to operate the WIC program at the local level.

The federal subawards received by Mon Valley Community Health Services, Inc. have supported the provision of nutrition services, breast pumps, peer counseling, and administration costs related to their operation of the WIC program. The WIC program provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and healthcare referrals for low-income pregnant and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age 5. Based on the subaward descriptions, it appears that Mon Valley Community Health Services, Inc. serves as a local WIC clinic, providing these types of WIC services to eligible participants in their community. The prime grantees for these awards have been both the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, which oversee the WIC program at the state level.