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WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence Awardees

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Each year the Food and Nutrition Service, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children announces the WIC Breastfeeding Award of Excellence program, formerly known as the Loving Support Award of Excellence. The award program was established to recognize local WIC agencies that have provided exemplary breastfeeding promotion and support activities. The intent is to provide models and motivate other local agencies to strengthen their breastfeeding promotion and support activities and ultimately increase breastfeeding initiation and duration rates among WIC participants.

The award is given at three levels of performance that build on one another: Gold, Premiere, and Elite. This approach recognizes three groups of agencies that include those that are demonstrating model practices, as well as those who are at varying stages of implementing exemplary breastfeeding promotion and support practices.

In 2023 there were: 111 Gold Awards, 13 Premiere Awards, and 1 Elite Award. 

Click on any state below to view 2023 awardees in that region.

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Mid-Atlantic Region (MARO)

Gold Awards (9) Premiere Awards (2) Elite Awards 
District of Columbia
  • Unity Health Care WIC Program

Maryland

  • Baltimore County WIC Program

New Jersey

  • Burlington County WIC
  • Plainfield WIC Program
  • Passaic WIC Program
  • St. Joseph WIC Program
  • The City of East Orange WIC Program

West Virginia

  • Central WV WIC
  • Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department WIC
 Maryland
  • CCI – Montgomery County WIC

Pennsylvania

  • Hope Enterprises Inc. Bi-County WIC
  

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Mountain Plains Region (MPRO)

Gold Awards (25) Premiere Awards (3) Elite Awards
Missouri
  • Carroll County Health Department
  • Family Care Health Centers
  • Stone County Health Department
  • University Health WIC

Northern Arapaho Tribe

  • Northern Arapaho Tribe WIC Program

South Dakota

  • Aurora County
  • Butte County - Belle Fourche
  • Charles Mix County - Wagner
  • Charles Mix County - Platte
  • Clark County
  • Deuel County - Clear Lake
  • Edmunds County Public Health
  • Hanson County
  • Lawrence County - Deadwood
  • Lawrence County - Spearfish
  • Lincoln County - Canton
  • Lake County - Madison
  • McCook County WIC
  • Meade County Community Health
  • Minnehaha County - Sioux Falls
  • Miner County Community Health
  • Oglala Lakota County - Pine Ridge
  • Pennington County - Rapid City
  • Day County

Rosebud Sioux Tribe

  • Rosebud Sioux Tribe WIC Program
 Colorado
  • Jefferson County Public Health WIC

Missouri

  • Saline County WIC Program

Montana

  • Ravalli County WIC
  

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Midwest Region (MWRO)

Gold Awards (17) Premiere Awards (2) Elite Awards
Iowa
  • Broadlawns WIC Program
  • HACAP

Illinois

  • Crawford County Health Department
  • Champaign-Urbana Public Health District
  • VNA Health Care
  • Peoria City/County Health Department
Indiana
  • Centerstone, Inc. WIC Agency 20
  • Vanderburgh County WIC

Michigan

  • Detroit Health Department WIC Program
  • District Health Department 4
  • Shiawassee County Health Department

Minnesota

  • Polk-Norman-Mahnomen CHB-WIC

Ohio

  • Crawford County WIC
  • Delaware Public Health District
  • Franklin County WIC
  • Erie Huron County WIC

Wisconsin

  • St. Croix County WIC
 Indiana
  • Elkhart County Health Department, Healthy Beginnings

Michigan

  • Health Department of Northwest Michigan
  

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Northeast Region (NERO) 

Gold Awards (15) Premiere Awards (2) Elite Awards (1)
Connecticut
  • Day Kimball Hospital WIC

Massachusetts

  • Springfield North WIC
  • Franklin/Hampshire/North Quabbin WIC
  • Taunton/Attleboro WIC

New York

  • Anthony L. Jordan Health Center WIC
  • Commission on Economic Opportunity for the Greater Capital Region
  • Community Action Partnership for Madison County WIC
  • Coney Island Hospital WIC Program
  • Essex County WIC Program
  • Morrisania Diagnostic & Treatment Center WIC
  • Research Foundation of SUNY Stony Brook
  • Tompkins County WIC Program
  • Urban Health Plan WIC Program
  • Whitney M Young Jr Health Center

Rhode Island

  • Scalabrini Dukcevich Center WIC Program
 Vermont
  • Vermont Department of Health - Barre District Office
  • Vermont Department of Health - St. Johnsbury District Office
 Vermont
  • Vermont Department of Health - Morrisville WIC Program

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Southeast Region (SERO)

Gold Awards (24) Premiere Awards (2) Elite Awards
Florida
  • Hernando County WIC
  • Okaloosa County WIC
  • Pasco County WIC

Georgia

  • District 2 - Gainesville

Kentucky

  • Allen County Health Department
  • Bell County Health Department
  • Lake Cumberland District Health Department
  • Martin County Health Department
  • Whitley County Health Department

Mississippi

  • District 2-Alcorn County Health Department
  • District 2-Lee County Health Department
  • District 3-Attala County Health Department
  • District 3-Bolivar County Health Department
  • District 3-Sunflower County Health Department

North Carolina

  • Appalachian District Health Department
  • Catawba County Public Health - WIC
  • Granville Vance Public Health
  • Haywood County WIC
  • Iredell County Health Department
  • Piedmont Health Services WIC Program

South Carolina

  • Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Services
  • Pee Dee Public Health Region, DHEC

Tennessee

  • Knox County Regional Office
  • Madison County Health Department
 North Carolina
  • Buncombe County WIC
  • Pender County WIC
  

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Southwest Region (SWRO)

Gold Awards (12) Premiere Awards (1) Elite Awards
Arkansas
  • Arkansas WIC Program

Arizona

  • Cochise County WIC Program
  • El Rio Health WIC
  • Mountain Park Health Center WIC Program
  • Navajo County WIC Program
  • Pima County Health Department

Citizen Potawatomi Nation

  • Citizen Potawatomi Nation WIC - Oklahoma City Southside Office

Oklahoma

  • NSO WIC
  • Oklahoma City-County Health Department WIC
  • WCD WIC Program
  • Variety Care WIC

Utah

  • Weber-Morgan Health Department
 Arizona
  • Yavapai County WIC
  

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Western Region (WRO)

Gold Awards (9) Premiere Awards (1) Elite Awards
California
  • County of Alameda
  • Native American Health Center
  • Northeast Valley Health Corporation
  • PHFE WIC
  • Shasta County WIC

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

  • CNMI WIC Program

Hawaii

  • Kokua Kalihi Valley WIC

Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada

  • Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada WIC

Oregon

  • Multhnomah County Health Department
 Washington
  • Sea Mar Community Health Centers WIC
  

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Updated: 09/26/2023