WIC: Women, Infants, & Children

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WIC is a free, supplemental nutrition program that helps pregnant women, new mothers, and young children eat well and stay healthy.

What Can You Get at WIC?

Information about nutrition & health to help you and your family eat well.
Support & information about breastfeeding your baby.
Special checks to buy healthy foods such as milk, juice, eggs, cheese, cereal, dry beans and peas, peanut butter, infant formula, and baby cereal. Exclusively breastfeeding women receive extra food checks.
Help in finding health care and other community services.
Free electric breast pump loans (available on a limited basis).

Who Can WIC Help?

Women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or recently have had a baby
Infants under 12 months old
Children under 5 years old (including foster children)
Fathers: Men can apply for WIC benefits for their children.

WIC helps families with limited income. Many working families qualify.

How Do You Apply for WIC Services?

Call one of our WIC offices and make an appointment. The staff will tell you what paperwork to bring for your first appointment. At the appointment, WIC staff will check to see if you and your family qualify.

All WIC services are free of charge. Citizenship is not required. Receiving WIC will not affect one's immigration status. WIC is not a public charge.

Standards for participation in the program are the same for everyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, political beliefs, sex, age, or handicap. If you have been discriminated against, you should write to: Director, Supplemental Food Program Division, Food and Nutrition Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC 20250.

Where Can You Find WIC?

WIC has local offices all over California and throughout Contra Costa County.

Concord WIC
2355 Stanwell Circle
Concord, CA 94520
925-646-5370
Hours: Monday-Friday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Languages available: English, Spanish, Farsi and Croatian

Richmond WIC
39th & Bissell
Richmond, CA 94805
510-231-8600
Hours: Monday-Friday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Languages available: English, Spanish, Laotian, Tagalog, Igbo and Arabic

Pittsburg WIC
2311 Loveridge Road
Pittsburg, CA 94565
925-431-2460
Hours: Monday-Friday
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Languages available: English and Spanish

Brentwood WIC
171 Sand Creek Road, Suite A
Brentwood, CA 94513
925-427-8640
Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Also open two Mondays per month (varies)
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Languages available: English & Spanish

General WIC Information in Contra Costa County
1-800-414-4WIC or 1-800-414-4942

Services are available in many languages by appointment.

WIC: Women, Infants, & Children

What Can You Get at WIC?

Who Can WIC Help?

How Do You Apply for WIC Services?

Where Can You Find WIC?

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