WIC Application Assistance
UI Health - Mile Square Health Center helps households complete applications for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) supplemental nutrition assistance program. The WIC program provides healthy eating classes, breastfeeding support, and food vouchers to eligible pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children up to age 5. In order to be eligible for this program, households must meet income guidelines and also be at nutritional risk as determined by a health professional. Nutritional risk recognizes medically-based risks such as anemia and diet-based risks including poor nutrition.
Date of Last Formal Update
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211 Metro Chicago
Location
1220 South Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60608
Voice
Voice
Hours
Mon 8:00am - 5:30pm; Tue 9:30am - 5:30pm; Wed 8:00am - 5:30pm; Thu 8:00am - 5:30pm; Fri 8:00am - 5:30pm; Sat 8:00am - 12:00pm;
Application process
Walk-ins Accepted--
Languages
English
Service area
IL, United States
Agency info
UI Health
UI Health provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a 462-bed tertiary care hospital, 26 outpatient clinics, and 13 Mile Square Health Center facilities, which are Federally Qualified Health Centers.