Our Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide leadership in...

  • 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)

Our Breastfeeding Statement:

The National WIC Association (NWA) endorses the American Academy of Pediatrics' Policy Statement on “Breastfeeding and the Use of Human Milk” (2005), which states, “Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development, and all other short-and long-term outcomes.” NWA promotes exclusive breastfeeding for infant feeding through the first year of life and beyond, with the addition of appropriate complementary foods when the infant is developmentally ready, usually around six months of age. All WIC staff have a role in promoting and providing support for the successful initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.



History
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.


Contact Us
NWA welcomes your participation and interaction.  Your concerns, questions, comments and ideas are important to us.  If you cannot find the information you need on this website, don't hesitate to contact us directly.

Cecilia Richardson Staff/Nutrition
Programs
Director

 crichardson@nwica.org 

 

DuWvaughn P. Francois Executive Assistant/Events Coordinator
 dfrancois@nwica.org 
  Membership/
Web Coordinator
 Membership@nwica.org 
Douglas Greenaway Executive
Director
 douglasg@nwica.org 
Tae Chong Public Policy Nutritionist tchong@nwica.org  

STATE WIC ASSOCIATIONS



Web Site Policies
Web Site Privacy Policy

The National WIC Association is committed to protecting the privacy of it’s members who utilize the NWA website.  To serve that goal, NWA has adopted this privacy policy.

NWA collects information and utilizes different kinds of information from users of the NWA website.  Like most websites, NWA uses “cookies” for several legitimate purposes.  These include remembering user names and passwords and differentiating between repeat and new users.  It is the policy of NWA that data generated by cookies will be used for internal purposes only (e.g., to improve the site and site-related services for users).  The data compiled via cookies is considered confidential and will not be sold to entities outside of the organization.

We may ask for your phone number, and/or e-mail address when you place an order for an NWA product or service, when you complete a survey, register for a conference; apply for membership, or on other occasions.  In each case, our objective is to have your contact information so that we can serve you better.

From time to time, we may use your address, phone number or e-mail address to provide you with other information that we believe may be of interest to you.

We collect the e-mail addresses for those who communicate with us via e-mail and for those who register for certain sections of the site.  We do not currently sell e-mail addresses to any third parties.  We may aggregate information on what pages users access.  NWA uses this information to enhance our online offerings information and services.

We also collect information and/or site registrations.  This is kept confidential by NWA and, again, is used for internal purposes.

 

Links within the NWA web site
The National WIC Association (NWA) maintains this Web site to enhance public access to NWA and WIC related information. This is a service that is continually under development. We will make every effort to keep this site current and to correct errors brought to our attention.

The documents on this site contain hypertext pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. Please be aware that we do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information. Further, the inclusion of pointers to particular items in hypertext is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed or products or services offered by the author of the reference or the organization operating the site on which the reference is maintained.

Translation of any materials into language other than English is intended solely as a convenience to the non-English-reading public. We have attempted to provide an accurate translation of the original material in English, but due to the difficulties of translation slight differences may exist. References identifying the original document in English are available in most non-English documents.


Security
NWA undertakes reasonable efforts to ensure that all personally identifiable information collected on our site remains secure.  NWA staff is trained to treat member and customer information confidentially.

Questions
Questions about the NWA privacy policy should be directed to the NWA offices via mail, phone or by sending an e-mail to the webmaster. 


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