The not-for-profit North East Community Action Corporation (NECAC) has been awarded a contract to provide Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program services in Warren and St. Charles counties.
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The not-for-profit North East Community Action Corporation (NECAC) has been awarded a contract to provide Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program services in Warren and St. Charles counties.
NECAC has contracted with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to provide $268,162 of WIC services for fiscal year 2020, which began Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30, 2021. The agency expects to serve 15,334 clients in the program during the year.
WIC is a supplemental USDA food program that provides free nutritious foods and nutrition education to pregnant, breast-feeding and postpartum women and teens, infants and children up to age five. Participants must meet WIC income guidelines and be determined by a health professional to be at nutritional risk.
NECAC was also approved for the seventh straight year as a Breastfeeding Friendly WIC Clinic and awarded $13,000 for staff support. NECAC was one of more than 40 local WIC contracting agencies that received the designation.
NECAC is a 12-county area social service, community health and public housing Community Action Agency that contracts with federal, state and local governments, private businesses and other not-for profit organizations to operate and administer self-sufficiency service programs for the low-income, elderly, youth, disabled and disadvantaged population. The agency’s Central Administration Offices are located in Bowling Green, with NECAC Service Centers operated in each county.
The WIC program is overseen by NECAC Deputy Director for Community Health Programs Brenda Fuqua and Director Claudia Timbrook, a Registered Nurse and a Family Nurse Practitioner. Also on the staff are Registered Dietician Nutritionist Jackie Brown and Clerks Gina Stockmann and Ashley Beard.
In Warren County, WIC sessions are held from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays at the NECAC Warren County Service Center at 120 E. Main in Warrenton.
In St. Charles County, WIC is offered from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays at the NECAC St. Charles County Service Center at 3400 Meadow Pointe Drive in O’Fallon.
Appointments for these hours are encouraged by calling (636) 456-2933 in Warrenton and (636) 240-7350 in O’Fallon.
