WIC Weekly Update List

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December 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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

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November 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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

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October 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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

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September 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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

August 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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

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July 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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

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June 2025 WIC Weekly Update

• 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!

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