WIC Voices Guide

Realizing that stories and testimonials are a powerful advocacy tool, the National WIC Association partnered with local and state WIC agencies across the country to create the WIC Voices Project. Photo and video testimonials were shaped and developed to highlight the WIC program’s impact on communities across the country.

This guide walks you through the process of developing and managing the project. Raise your WIC voice by creating your own storytelling project!
 

• WIC Voices: An Introduction: Describes the rationale for developing this guide and stories practical application to WIC work
• How to Tell Your WIC Story: Provides guidance for effective WIC storytelling, through verbal and written stories as well as photography and videos.
• Snapshot: The Original WIC Voices Project: Explains the nuts and bolts of the original WIC Voices Project.
• Steps in Implementing A Story Collection Project: Lists step-by-step directions that provide a roadmap for replicating the WIC Voices storytelling project at the federal, state or local level.
• Advice and Help from the WIC Voices Story Team Members: Shares challenges, successes, lessons learns and resources from local WIC agencies who participated in the original WIC Voices Project

WIC Voices Video

WIC is an asset to communities across the United States, serving all fifty states, Native American Indian tribes, and U.S. territories. This video montage includes first person testimonials from WIC participants and local WIC agency staff and highlights innovative community health projects coordinated by local WIC agencies to build a culture of health.
 

Explore more WIC stories and photos at our Faces of WIC and WIC Testimonials pages on our WIC Hub. 

NWA staff is here to help. Please direct your questions to Quinney Harris, Director of Health Equity & Community Partnerships, at qharris@nwica.org.

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to the following state and local WIC agencies who contributed photos and videos: American Samoa WIC, Cameron County DHHS WIC (Texas), Crescent City WIC (Louisiana), Cumberland Plateau Health District (Virginia), District Health Department #10 (Michigan), Louisiana WIC, Maternal and Family Health Services (Pennsylvania), Panhandle Health District (Idaho), PHFE WIC (California), Shasta County HHSA WIC (California), St. Lucie County WIC (Florida), St. Tammany Parish Hospital CWC (Louisiana), Tri-County Health Department (Colorado), Visiting Nurse Association Health Group WIC (New Jersey), West Virginia WIC, Westbay Community Action WIC (Rhode Island), and Wood County WIC (Wisconsin). The David and Lucile Packard Foundation provided funding for the project.