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Breastfeeding Promotion in WIC:
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CITATION |
PROVISION |
246.2 |
Definitions. Breastfeeding women means women up to one year postpartum who are breastfeeding their infants. |
246.3(e)(4) |
State
staffing standards. |
246.4(a)(9) |
State
Plan. |
246.7(e)(1)(iii)
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Certification
of Participants. Nutritional risk priority system. Priority I: pregnant women, breastfeeding women and infants at nutritional risk as demonstrated by hematological or anthropometric measurements or other documented nutritionally related medical conditions which demonstrate the need for supplemental foods. |
246.7(g)(1)(iii) |
Certification
Periods. |
246.10(c)(7) |
Supplemental
Foods. |
246.11(c) 246.11(c)(3) |
Nutrition Education. State agencies shall perform the following activities in carrying out nutrition education responsibilities: Provide training on the promotion and management of breastfeeding to staff at local agencies who will provide information and assistance on this subject to participants. Identify or develop resources and educational materials for use in local agencies, including breastfeeding promotion and instruction materials; taking reasonable steps to include materials in languages other than English in areas where a significant number of or proportion of the populations needs the information in a language other than English. Establish standards for breastfeeding promotion and support which include, at a minimum, the following: (i) A policy that creates a positive clinic environment which endorses breastfeeding as the preferred method of infant feeding; (ii) A requirement that each local agency designate a staff person to coordinate breastfeeding promotion and support activities; (iii) A requirement that each local agency incorporate task-appropriate breastfeeding promotion and support training into orientation programs for new staff involved in direct contact with WIC clients; and (iv) A plan to ensure that women have access to breastfeeding promotion and support activities during the prenatal and postpartum periods. Participant
Contacts. |
246.14(b)(1)(iii)
246.14(c)(1) 246.14(c)(10) |
Program
Costs. Specified allowable nutrition services and administration (NSA) costs. Each fiscal year, each state agency must spend, for nutrition education activities and breastfeeding promotion and support activities, an aggregate amount that is not less than the sum of one-sixth of the amount expended by the State agency for costs of NSA and an amount equal to its proportionate share of the national minimum expenditure for breastfeeding promotion and support activities. The national minimum expenditure for breastfeeding promotion and support activities shall be equal to $21 multiplied by the number of pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Program, based on the average of the last three months for which USDA has final data. On October 1, 1996 and each October 1 thereafter, the $21 will be adjusted annually using the same inflation percentage used to determine the national administrative grant per person. Costs of breastfeeding aids which directly support the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding are allowable. |
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