National
WIC Association (NWA)
Founded in 1983, the National WIC Association
(NWA) is a voluntary, non-profit membership organization that represents
90 Geographic, Territorial and Native American State Agencies and
more than 2,000 Local Agencies that together provide quality nutrition
education, breastfeeding support, health care and other referral
services to over 8.00 million at-risk women, infants and children
in over 10,000 WIC clinics nationwide.
NWA's efforts on behalf of the WIC Program have been effective
in gaining bipartisan support of the US Congress, the support of
successive Administrations and a broad coalition, including advocacy
groups, health care and religious organizations and the CEOs of
several Fortune 500 corporations.
The NWA mission is to provide leadership in... |
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- Promoting quality nutrition services
- Advocating services for all eligible women, infants, and children;
and
- Assuring sound, responsive management of the Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
The NWA / Scholastic Partnership
Scholastic is pleased to partner with the National WIC Association
to provide great books at low cost to WIC programs across the country.
Our book selections are designed to inspire a love of reading across
generations while reinforcing WIC’s essential message to parents:
Your Child Has You. You Have WIC. |
