Administrative Address
5985 10th Avenue North
Greenacres, FL 33463
Tel: (561) 357-6022
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Eligibility Determination:
WIC
serves infants, children up to 5 years, pregnant women, breast-feeding women, and women in the first 6 months after giving birth. Participants must meet liberal income guidelines or
participate in Medicaid, Food Stamps, or WAGES/TANF. Applicants are required to show current proof of income, identity, and address.
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Food Assistance:
 WIC provides
eligible participants with checks for supplemental nutritious food. Women and children receive checks for milk, cheese, eggs, fruit or vegetable juice, iron-fortified cereal, and beans or
peanut butter. Women who exclusively breast-feed also receive carrots and tuna. Non-breast feeding infants receive iron-fortified formula.
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Group Classes:
WIC offers free
interactive nutrition education and parenting classes in all service locations. Classes offered include: feeding infants 3-5 months old and 8-10 months old, healthy snacks, reading
food labels, economical food shopping, nutrition and pregnancy, breast-feeding, how to use your WIC foods, feeding toddlers, overweight children, and nutrition for 3-5 year olds.
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Nutrition Assessment and Counseling:
WIC provides individual nutrition and diet assessment and counseling to all applicants. Participants and caretakers are counseled on health
risks related to nutrition, either preventive or therapeutic. Infant and child participants are also screened and referred for immunization services.
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WIC Sites
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C.L. Brumback
(Belle Glade) Health Center
(561) 996-1635
Fax 561-992-8363
(Google
Maps) |
Jupiter Health Center
(561) 746-0782
Fax (561) 743-4639
(Google
Maps) |
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Delray Beach Health Center
(561) 274-3112
Fax (561) 276-8518
(Google
Maps) |
Greenacres WIC Center
5985 10th Avenue North
Greenacres, FL 33463
(561) 357-6000
Fax (561) 357-4885
(Google
Maps) |
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Lantana Lake Worth Health Center
(561) 547-6812
Fax (561) 233-4684
(Google
Maps)
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West Palm Beach
Health Center
(561) 514-5350
Fax (561) 514-5542
(Google
Maps) |
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WIC Administration
5985 10th Avenue North
Greenacres, FL 33463
Tel: (561) 357-6022 |