This senator sponsored legislation in 1972 authorizing the pilot program for WIC.
Who is Hubert Humphrey
100
This acronym - LARC - is used for a required position in a WIC agency. Solve the acronym.
What is Local Agency Retail Coordinator?
100
Name the State Plan chapter that lists information needed for determining participant eligibility.
What is Chapter 5?
100
This is the major goal of the WIC program.
What is improving health outcomes of participants?
100
Adjusted net income is used for those participants who are in this class of employment for income eligibility.
What is self-employed?
200
This is the year that WIC was required to start promoting breastfeeding.
What is 1989?
200
The acronym CPA is a term used in the WIC agency to describe this professional position.
What is Certified Professional Authority?
200
Name the five categories that meet the definition for eligibility in the WIC program.
What is a pregnant woman, breastfeeding woman, post-partum woman, infant or child?
200
This is the mineral that WIC supplemental nutrition program foods include to improve levels in the blood that is considered lacking in low income diets.
What is iron? (preventing anemia is a major goal of WIC)
200
With the current monitoring standards in place for Montana WIC, this is the percentage needed to be included as a TIER ONE clinic.
What is 80% or above?
300
WIC is USDA's third largest supplemental food program. Name the two larger programs.
What are SNAP and the School lunch program?
300
WIC is the acronym used for this Federal government sponsored nutrition program.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children?
300
This term is defined as automatic income eligibility for applicants or participants who report they are enrolled in a qualifying State or Federal program in Montana.
What is "Adjunctive Eligibility"?
300
This WIC goal is one that offers access to more than nutritious foods for participants.
What are referrals? (Providing information and connecting participants to preventive health programs and providers)
400
This is the benefit that sets WIC apart from other government Food Assistance Programs.
What is nutrition education?
400
VENA is an acronym used to describe a process that helps clarify participant information in an interactive manner.
What is Value Enhanced Nutrition Assessment?
400
This is the number of days allowed after initial contact is made with a pregnant woman to determine her eligibility or ineligibility for the WIC program.
What is 10 days?
400
This is an essential part of local agency program work that gets the word out about what WIC is and the benefits it offers to qualified members of the community.
What is outreach? (outreach plans are written and available at the local clinic and updated annually)
500
This acronym is used for what was formally known as the Food Stamp Program.
What is SNAP - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
500
This is the maximum percentage income allowed over the U.S. poverty income guidelines for applicants to be considered eligible for WIC.
What is 185% of poverty?
500
This program within WIC is specifically designed to encourage and assist new mothers in providing the best nutrition for the first six months of their child's life.