WIC Miscellaneous
WIC Lingo
Rules and Regulations
What appointment is that?
100

Nutrition education, specific prescribed food package, referrals, and breastfeeding support.

What are core WIC services?

100

YAB

What is a yellow alert baby?

100

Document that must be signed and filed when a cert/recert/pcert results in a short cert.

What is an SDS?

100

Can be completed independently by participants. 

what is a class appointment?

200

Process required to modify infant feeding choice.

What is a BF status change. 

200

POP

What is proof of pregnancy?

200

Document that MUST be discussed and signed at every cert/recert/pcert.

What is an R&R?

200

Last contact for a post-partum mom.

What is an HNU-Post-partum exit counseling?

300

Can be used for a certification 

What is triple issuance 

300

POC

What is the plan of care?

300

Used to transfer current certification when moving in/out of state.

What is VOC?

300

Completed no earlier than 5 months of age.

What is an infant midcert?

400

Qualifying a newborn based on mom having active Medi-Cal while pregnant.

What is deemed eligibility?

400

 VBW

What is verbal birth weight?

400

Protocol requiring two staff to complete an appointment. 

What is SOD?

400

To determine continued eligibility in the WIC program.

What is a recert appointment?

500

Assessing adjunctive eligibility for WIC by means of a non-WIC participant. 

What is confer function?

500

GWG

What is gestational weight gain?

500

Temporary authorization allowing remote certs/recerts/pcerts.

What is a presence waiver?

500

Follow up on pending information.

What is the HNU-short cert appointment?