National WIC Association

Health Equity

All content tagged with the term "health-equity".


  • Ruby Ferguson, Health Equity Champion

    August 28, 2020 - News & Blog
    As a collective, we are all not truly healthy until every citizen on this planet has the choice of good health. When we keep the goal of health equity at the core of our work, WIC has the capacity to empower communities to attain their fullest health potentials.  


  • Maddie McKinney, Health Equity Champion

    August 27, 2020 - News & Blog
    A professional goal for my work this year is to present my local staff with a series of diversity and inclusion in-services, focusing on serving ALL of our clients with compassion, respect, and care. BIPOC issues, language and immigration barriers, and LGBTQA+ concerns are among the areas I plan to open up a discussion with my staff and see how we can move our services forward. 


  • Tonce Jackson, Health Equity Champion

    August 26, 2020 - News & Blog
    As Health Equity Manager, I have led our agency in a series of trainings, including equity, diversity, and inclusion, conversations on race, micro-aggressions, and implicit bias.


  • Adela Garcia, Health Equity Champion

    August 25, 2020 - News & Blog
    In July of 2019, I took a different path in my healthcare journey and joined the WIC program of the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. Shortly afterwards, I developed a strategic action plan to collaborate and increase awareness of our WIC program in the Hospital.


  • Diane Landy, Health Equity Champion

    August 21, 2020 - News & Blog
    My health equity achievement is a literacy based event which targets WIC participants and potential WIC participants. It promotes the WIC program, the importance of reading to infants shortly after being born using dialogic reading techniques, an awareness of healthy foods, and has long-term potential to reduce health disparities.


  • Adrianna Bradley, Health Equity Champion

    August 20, 2020 - News & Blog
    I am honored to have been selected as a Health Equity Champion for the National WIC Association’s Advancing Health Equity to Achieve Diversity & Inclusion (AHEAD) in WIC project. Health equity is about making sure that all people have the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.


  • Introducing NWA's Health Equity Champions

    August 19, 2020 - News & Blog
    The Champions come from five of the seven USDA-FNS regions and have direct experience coordinating and implementing health equity projects within WIC. The group also has expertise in a wide range of WIC professional roles. Throughout the next two weeks, we will highlight each of the seven Champions on our blog and social media.


  • Stacy Davis, Health Equity Champion

    August 19, 2020 - News & Blog
    As a former WIC participant and current WIC professional, I am able to apply personal experience, education, and technical knowledge and skills to cultivate quality breastfeeding programs. Since June 2016, I have had the privilege to hold the title as the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services WIC Division’s Regional Lactation Consultant for the Metro (Detroit) region- serving Macomb, Oakland and Wayne Counties.


  • World Breastfeeding Week: Support Breastfeeding for a Healthier Planet!

    July 24, 2020 - News & Blog
    Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week with National WIC Association! Every year around the world, individuals and organizations celebrate WBW from August 1-7.  With this year’s theme of Support Breastfeeding for a Healthier Planet!, learn about the affordability and sustainability of breastfeeding and how breastfeeding translates to responsible consumption.


  • Urgent Action is Needed to Dispel Racism and Safeguard Black Lives

    June 2, 2020 - News & Blog
    George Floyd’s brutal death – in plain view for all Americans to see – is not an isolated circumstance. Countless others, including Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, James Scurlock, and Elijah McClain, have been taken from us too soon as a result of shameless and systemic violence targeted at the Black community. Too often, society looks away as figures of authority – including police – abuse the public trust and exert unnecessary force at the expense of Black lives. Our silence and avoidance are older than our nation’s history. To these, we say: no more.