WIC Weekly Update List

April 2026 WIC Weekly Updates

WIC Weekly Update - April 29, 2026

• Staff Burnout training
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinars

WIC Weekly Update - April 22, 2026

• Revised shopping guides available to order
• Meaningful minutes: WIC skills in 10
• Neurodivergence and Disordered Eating: Part 2
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar

WIC Weekly Update - April 15, 2026

• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• Reminder: WIC grant applications due
• Updated tool to introduce food package changes
• New Weekly Update webpage format
• Minnesota WIC participant advisory group - recruitment
• No local agency outreach or breastfeeding project grants this year
• WIC advisory group meeting
• New recorded training webinars available!
• Measles information

WIC Weekly Update - April 8, 2026

• Reminder: WIC grant applications due
• Medical assistance and SNAP texts to be delivered Monday, May 4
• WIC hardware transition reminder
• Help Me Connect MN resource mailing
• Meaningful Minutes - new training available
• 2026 state sponsored lactation courses!
• Tip of the Month: Closing conversations in Mobile Management
• Lessons in WIC: Case Studies

WIC Weekly Update - April 1, 2026

• Reminder: WIC grant applications due
• Additional WIC grant funding letters
• New Infoview template - Not issued juice or eggs
• Local Agency Portal - Reports and data page updates
• Temporary CPA staff list
• Policy Update: Separation of Duties
• 2026 Coffective coaching and grants for up to $5,000 available
• 2026 state sponsored lactation courses
• Topic of the month - no new April topic
• Perinatal HIV in Minnesota
• Shopping experience training
• Tax resources
• Perinatal health data dashboard

WIC Weekly Update - March 25, 2026

• FFY 2026 additional WIC grant funding notification
• March local agency call minutes
• New tool to introduce food package changes!
• Yogurt and tofu changes - effective April 1
• Questions and answers WIC and peer grant applications
• Shopping experience training
• Staff burnout training
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar

WIC Weekly Update - March 18, 2026

• New translations available: MN WIC Rights and Responsibilities (Amharic and Oromo)
• 2026 Coffective coaching and grants for up to $5,000 available
• Reminder: Neurodivergence and disordered eating

WIC Weekly Update - March 11, 2026

• Milk clarification
• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• Potential WIC phone call scam
• Save the date for lactation skills days in 2026
• Welcoming a new peer breastfeeding counselor?
• Remote Nutrition Education
• Lessons in WIC: Case Studies
• Minnesota innovations in perinatal health RFP

WIC Weekly Update - March 4, 2026

• WIC food package changes - phase 3
• Enfamil Neuropro Gentlease - out of stock
• WIC grant request for proposal and application now available
• Order WIC cards now!
• New look to MDH WIC webpages
• Local Agency Portal - Reports and Data page updates
• WIC hardware transition reminder
• Happy International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) Day!
• Failure to thrive - topic of the month
• Perinatal HIV in Minnesota

WIC Weekly Update - February 25, 2026

• 2026 Minnesota WIC Facts available
• February local agency call minutes
• Meaningful minutes: WIC skills in 10
• Breastfeeding encouragement stickers
• Neurodivergence and disordered eating
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinar
• 2025 Outreach Grant project summary

WIC Weekly Update - February 18, 2026

• Celebrate National Nutrition Month in March
• Shopping experience training
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar
• Feedback needed for infant abuse prevention messaging

WIC Weekly Update - February 11, 2026

• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• WIC program grant application
• MDH WIC staff announcements
• Tip of the month - whole grains update
• Neurodivergence and disordered eating: Part 2
• Staff burnout training
• Lessons in WIC: Case studies
• Recorded webinars not for credit
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinar
• Protecting kids starts here - new webpage on environmental hazards
• Opportunity for older youth (ages 14-18)

WIC Weekly Update - February 4, 2026

• Federal Fiscal Year 2025 final WIC grant payments
• January advisory group meeting notes
• Topic of the Month -February
• Options for shopping for WIC foods - translated PDF's online
• Save the dates: Neurodivergence and Disordered Eating, Staff Burnout

WIC Weekly Update - January 28, 2026

• Options for shopping for WIC foods
• January local agency call minutes
• Quarterly text messages
• At a glance food package exhibits revised
• Meaningful minutes: WIC skills in 10
• Sue Gerval's retirement
• Perinatal HIV in Minnesota
• Mental health services

WIC Weekly Update - January 21, 2026

• Reminder: Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder training
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar
• Cannabis and Substance Misuse Prevention Program

WIC Weekly Update - January 14, 2026

• Use Infoview to identify participants issued incorrect whole grain quantities
• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• WIC advisory group meeting
• Policy update: Exhibit 2-C has been revised
• What to do if WIC translated videos play in English
• Tip of the month - Baby behavior video clips
• Lessons in WIC: Case studies
• Supporting children during immigration enforcement operations
• Neurodivergence and disordered eating: Part 1

WIC Weekly Update - January 7, 2026

• Gold Star Distribution recall
• Applying for continuing education credits
• Federal Fiscal Year 2026 Supplemental Clinic Travel Funding
• Income verification using tax return forms
• Welcome 2026 WIC advisory group members
• Updated guidance: LanguageLine voice of the customer
• Champions calls discontinued
• WIC hardware transition reminder
• Staff burnout - Topic of the month
• Minnesota infant safe sleep programs virtual listening sessions

WIC Weekly Update - December 17, 2025

• WIC participation
• Food package
• Holiday schedule for Abbott, Mead Johnson, Nestle, and Nutricia
• Holiday schedule for Weekly Update
• New Cultural Toolkits: Latin American and Mexican
• Meaningful minutes: WiC skills in 10
• Lessons in WIC: Case studies
• Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder training
• March trainings
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar
• Virtual film screening and discussion: The FASD Project
• Food recall resources
• Paid leave is coming to Minnesota

WIC Weekly Update - December 10, 2025

• Tip of the month - Delete unwanted columns or tabs in Infoview 4.3
• 2026 WIC advisory group openings-applications due Friday, Dec. 12
• Peer breastfeeding program live orientation
• Error: Paid leave for new and expecting parents webinar date
• Holiday schedule for weekly update
• Vaccination education resources
• Hepatitis B vaccine

WIC Weekly Update - December 3, 2025

• Order WIC cards now!
• Infoview 4.3 update rescheduled
• WIC hardware
• WIC card changes
• Local agency portal - reports and data page updates
• 2026 WIC advisory group openings - applications due Friday, Dec. 12
• Food package updates starting Jan. 12, 2026
• NOW OPEN! Apply for the WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence
• Peer breastfeeding counselor live orientation
• Involving Kids in the Kitchen - Topic of the Month
• 2025 monthly champions call

WIC Weekly Update - November 24, 2025

• November local agency call minutes
• MOM Policy update: revised breastfeeding coordinator resource
• Sandy Sather - MDH WIC retirement

WIC Weekly Update - November 19, 2025

• Infoview unavailable starting 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19
• Local agency feedback during shutdown
• Medical assistance and SNAP texts resume Monday, Nov. 24
• 2026 WIC advisory group openings - applications due Friday, Dec. 12
• Lessons in WIC: Case Studies
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder Training
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar
• Paid Leave is coming to Minnesota
• Resource: Acetaminophen use in pregnancy

WIC Weekly Update - November 12, 2025

• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• LanguageLine update: Use one phone number for all calls
• MN WIC App message - shutdown funding update
• Food resource for families
• Multistate outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula
• Addressing Muslim concerns on use of pasteurized donor human milk
• Tip of the month - Quality nutrition education documentation
• Think small parent powered text program
• Infant Safe Sleep Week

WIC Weekly Update - November 5, 2025

• Funding update
• Local agency portal - reports and data page updates
• Topic of the month
• 2025 monthly champions call

WIC Weekly Update - October 29, 2025

• Reminder: LanguageLine codes changing Nov. 1
• Federal government shutdown WIC updates - latest information
• Reminder: Oct. 30 shopping experience webinar - canceled
• 2026 WIC advisory group openings - applications due Friday, Dec. 12
• Spots still available for in-person certified lactation specialist course in Bemidji
• Disability History in Minnesota: A Conversation with Colleen Wiech

WIC Weekly Update - October 22, 2025

• WINNIE news: How heard about WIC - new option in dropdownlist
• WINNIE news: Nutrition assessment questions in WINNIE - updated
• Food package update - whole grains
• No quarterly MA or SNAP texts in Nov.
• Communication update to participants
• Oct. 30 shopping experience webinar - canceled
• Oct. 27 advisory group meeting - canceled
• Meaningful minutes: WIC skills in 10
• WIC breastfeeding award of excellence
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder Training
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar

WIC Weekly Update - October 15, 2025

• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• Federal government shutdown
• MN WIC fact sheet: Anemia in pregnant and postpartum women
• WIC Advisory Group meeting
• Meaningful Minutes: WIC Skills in 10
• Apply for the WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence
• Lessons in WIC: Case Studies

WIC Weekly Update - October 8, 2025

• Reminder: Minnesota WIC services will continue during federal government shutdown
• LanguageLine access codes changing Nov. 1
• Reminder: WIC foods and shopping experience training
• In-person Certified Lactation Specialist course available in Bemidji
• Tip of the month - store shopping help
• 2025 monthly champions calls
• Great lakes breastfeeding webinar

WIC Weekly Update - October 1, 2025

• Minnesota WIC services will continue during federal government shutdown
• LanguageLine access codes changing Nov. 1
• Local agency portal updates
• Free prenatal vitamins for Minnesotans
• Topic of the month - Food Insecurity
• Quarterly medical assistance and SNAP text reminder
• Betty Hubbard Maternal and Child Health Leadership Award call for nominations

WIC Weekly Update - September 24, 2025

• September local agency call minutes
• New features for wichealth staff accounts
• Minnesota Department of Health Learning Center
• MDH WIC staffing update

WIC Weekly Update - September 17, 2025

• WIC initial and closed-out monthly participation
• Annual security training - revised
• Perinatal substance use workforce development project e-modules
• Great Lakes breastfeeding webinar
• Preventing workplace violence webinar recording

WIC Weekly Update - September 10, 2025

• Order WIC cards now!
• Welcoming a new peer breastfeeding coordinator
• Tip of the month - Finding training opportunities for staff
• MN StoryCollective launches Version 3 of its story collection tool!

WIC Weekly Update - September 3, 2025

• Join free workshop - sharing baby's behavior to promote parent confidence and breastfeeding duration
• Welcoming a new peer breastfeeding counselor?
• Fiber - Topic of the Month
• 2025 Monthly Champions calls
• September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Month

WIC Weekly Update - August 27, 2025

• Closeout procedures and deadlines FFY 2025
• WIC participant data confidentiality
• Your input needed: Help shape our new mini trainings
• August local agency call minutes
• Artificial intelligence (AI) powered note taking assistants - guidance for meetings
• Wichealth.org - exciting changes coming soon!
• Exclusively breastfeeding posters - moved to Brush Art

WIC Weekly Update - August 20, 2025

• Reminder: Mobile app survey - complete by August 22
• New Cultural Toolkits: Karen and Nigerian
• Last call: National WIC Association participant satisfaction survey
• July advisory group meeting notes
• Visit the TPT Nursing Nest at the State Fair
• Congratulations - peer programs awarded the Breastfeeding Award of Excellence
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinar

WIC Weekly Update - August 13, 2025

• Mobile App survey - complete by August 22
• Upcoming MN WIC App messages
  • Hy-Vee online shopping
  • TodaysBaby resource promotion
• Your input needed: Help shape our new mini trainings
• Breastfeeding Awareness Month
• Tip of the month - Quickly identifying active participants in participant search
• Preventing workplace violence webinar

WIC Weekly Update - August 6, 2025

• Hy-Vee online shopping update
• Food allergies - Topic of the Month
• Visit TPT Nursing Nest at the State Fair
• Update: National WIC Association participant satisfaction survey
• National WIC Association - WIC technology, innovation, and vendor management conference in Minneapolis
• 2025 monthly champions calls
• Cannabis materials webpage

WIC Weekly Update - July 30, 2025

• WIC and federal public benefits notice
• Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies survey

WIC Weekly Update - July 23, 2025

• WIC benefits unavailable July 29, 1-5 a.m.
• Breastfeeding Awareness Month - communications resources
• Southwest Health and Human Services retirement news
• National WIC Association - WIC technology, innovation, and vendor management conference in Minneapolis
• WIC foods and shopping experience
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinar

WIC Weekly Update - July 16, 2025

• WIC advisory group meeting
• Reminder: WIC foods and shopping experience
• Preventing workplace violence webinar
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding webinar

WIC Weekly Update - July 9, 2025

• MNbenefits project expanding statewide - August 1
• Data updates on the WIC website and local agency portal
• Cannabis and your baby
• Presumptive eligibility vs. pending eligibility
• I Matter Project - first learning lab session

WIC Weekly Update - July 1, 2025

• New nutrition education plan - available July 7
• National WIC Association participant satisfaction survey
• Quarterly medical assistance and SNAP texting reminder - August
• Participant Centered Services regional workshops
• Great Lakes Breastfeeding Webinar
• Resource for parents

WIC Weekly Update - June 25, 2025

• WIC Local Agency Conference Call
• Food package policy updates
• New income guidelines - effective July 1
• Anemia in Minnesota WIC children fact sheet and talking points
• Newcomer education for wellness text messaging education series
• Holiday schedule for formula companies

WIC Weekly Update - June 18, 2025

• MNbenefits WIC messaging to expand to all local WIC agencies August 1
• Register now! Level 4 lactation skills day in Marshall
• Preventing workplace violence webinar
• Enhancing your skills with interpreters

WIC Weekly Update - June 11, 2025

• Tip of the month
• State WIC sponsored lactation courses - seats still available

WIC Weekly Update - June 4, 2025

• Milk purchasing
• Food package updates begin June 9
• Order WIC cards now!
• Local agency portal user access
• Peer counselor orientation
• Topic of the month - Gestational diabetes
• TodaysBaby program and research studies
• Participant-centered services regional workshop
• 2025 monthly champions calls
• Register now for 2025 level 4 lactation skills day!

WIC Weekly Update - May 28, 2025

• WIC card orders are due 6/15/2025 - action required
• Federal Fiscal Year 2025
• Local agency call
• And Justice for All posters - no new version available
• 2025 National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course

WIC Weekly Update May 21, 2025

• Food package changes - vendor communication
• National WIC Association participant survey
• WIC shopping videos - all translations available
• Peer counselor contact calculator
• Updated PCS webpage
• State-sponsored breastfeeding trainings-register now!

WIC Weekly Update May 14, 2025

• Food package guidance
• April advisory group meeting notes
• Coffective app
• Virtual lunch and learn series on fathers
• Great Lakes breastfeeding webinar

WIC Weekly Update May 7, 2025

• Risk factor policy updates
• TodaysBaby programs and research studies
• 2025 Title V needs assessment community input survey
• Minnesota WIC designated breastfeeding expert practice group - no meeting in May due to Memorial Day
• Peer breastfeeding webpage and resources
• Topic of the month - Supporting sensory-friendly nutrition for autistic children
• Register now for 2025 state sponsored lactation courses