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WIC Grants to States (WGS)
10.578
To assist WIC State agencies, through grants and cooperative agreements, in making improvements and/or enhancements to the delivery of program benefits and services to participants. These grants and cooperative agreements include the following: 1. WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling Grants (discretionary) are provided to WIC State agencies to implement or maintain effective breastfeeding peer counselor programs. Combining peer counseling with the on-going breastfeeding promotion and support efforts in WIC agencies has the potential to significantly impact breastfeeding rates among WIC participants. The Food and Nutrition Service’s long-range vision is to institutionalize peer counseling as a core service in WIC. A portion of these funds may be used to award breastfeeding performance bonuses. These incentives build upon WIC’s longstanding efforts to promote and support breastfeeding and are intended to recognize and award State agencies that have demonstrated successful breastfeeding promotion and support efforts. 2. WIC Infrastructure Grants (discretionary) are provided to WIC State agencies for infrastructure projects that support national and regional priorities to improve the delivery of program benefits and services to participants. 3. WIC Implementation of Breastfeeding Support Campaign Project to provide technical support for the implementation and evaluation of the updated USDA National Breastfeeding Promotion Campaign WIC Breastfeeding Support, Learn Together. Grow Together. State agencies can use funds to implement and evaluate the updated Campaign to increase the knowledge of and to promote behavior change about breastfeeding among WIC staff and participants. 4. WIC Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) and Management Information System (MIS) Grants were provided to WIC State agencies for the implementation of WIC EBT systems and/or to transfer a viable MIS. These grants included: (1) WIC EBT Implementation (non-competitive) Grants to support EBT planning or implementation projects through the Advanced Planning Document (APD) process; (2) WIC State Agency Model (SAM) Amendments (non-competitive) Grants to support WIC State agencies in the SAM Users Group; (3) WIC SAM Transfers Grants (non-competitive) to complete planning activities and have an approved Alternatives Analysis document justifying a SAM as their choice of system transfer; (4) WIC Management Information Systems (MIS) Implementation (non-competitive) Grants to implement a transfer MIS or are upgrading or enhancing their current MIS; (5) WIC SAM Product Management Office (PMO) (non-competitive) and SAM Maintenance and Enhancement (M&E) Grants for the support and management of the SAM change control process, including prioritization of enhancements, User Group governance, and maintenance and operation of the State agency MIS core code.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
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No Current Data Available. 84 Breastfeeding Peer Counseling grants, 8 Breastfeeding Performance Bonus awards were awarded; Special Project Infrastructure Grants: 4 full grants and 2 mini-grants focusing on Child Retention were awarded; University of Minnesota was awarded a cooperative agreement to administer the Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course. University of Minnesota Maternal Intensive Course was held July 27-29, 2016
79 Breastfeeding Peer Counseling grants, 6 Breastfeeding Performance Bonus awards were awarded; Special Project Infrastructure Grants: 2 full grants and 2 mini-grants focusing on improving the delivery of WIC services were awarded. University of Minnesota was awarded a cooperative agreement to administer the Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course. University of Minnesota Maternal Intensive Course was held July 16-18, 2017.
72 Breastfeeding Peer Counseling grants totaling $59,900,000 were awarded. Grants ranged from $18,000 to $ 8,373,735. The remaining $100,000 in Breastfeeding Peer Counseling funds were awarded as Breastfeeding Performance Bonus awards to 2 large (>1000 participants) and 12 small (<1000 participants) State agencies shown to have greatest percentage increase of the number of fully breastfed infants than in the previous fiscal year. Awards ranged from $500 to $57,098.
17 General Infrastructure grants totaling over $7,000,000.
51 WIC State agencies, delivering benefits to over 61% of participants, have successfully implemented EBT projects statewide; as of the end of Fiscal Year 2019, 20 State agencies were in the planning phase for EBT; 19 WIC State agencies were in the implementing phase for EBT.
68 WIC State agencies, delivering benefits to over 90% of participants, have successfully implemented EBT projects statewide; as of the end of Fiscal Year 2020, 8 State agencies were in the planning phase for EBT; 13 WIC State agencies were in the implementing phase for EBT.
Technology grant funding provided in support of WIC State agencies’ EBT and MIS projects. Other grant funding to WIC State agencies to improve, innovate, and/or enhance services of the WIC program.
77 WIC State agencies, delivering benefits to over 92% of participants, have successfully implemented EBT projects statewide; as of the end of Fiscal Year 2021, 12 WIC State agencies were in the implementing phase for EBT.
Technology grant funding provided in support of WIC State agencies’ EBT and MIS projects. Other grant funding to WIC State agencies to improve, innovate, and/or enhance services of the WIC program.
77 WIC State agencies, delivering benefits to over 92% of participants, have successfully implemented EBT projects statewide; as of the end of Fiscal Year 2021, 12 WIC State agencies were in the implementing phase for EBT.
Technology grant funding provided in support of WIC State agencies’ EBT and MIS projects. Other grant funding to WIC State agencies to improve, innovate, and/or enhance services of the WIC program.
The 15 State agencies with the greatest improvements in the rates of fully breastfed infants were awarded a total of $2 million in Breastfeeding Performance Bonuses. All WIC State agencies have implemented EBT statewide.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
