Nevada WIC will participate in learning collaborative sessions, benefit from technical assistance, and work together with GSCN to evaluate the outcomes and lessons learned during the online ordering project. GSCN will use program data to create a results-based report for WIC that includes a set of recommendations to potentially increase the availability of, and support for, WIC online ordering across the United States. Magee and Associates’, known as JPMA, Inc., through this exploratory project. The Nevada WIC program will be partnering with Save Mart and James P. The goal of the online shopping grant is to improve the WIC shopping experience with WIC approved vendors utilizing the already established WICShopper app. WIC participation is not required for the app, although certain features will not function without an active WIC EBT card number. The WICShopper app is available free for download on both the Apple Store and Google Play. The app, which was introduced in 2017, can be used on a smartphone to check WIC food benefit balances, scan food items, allow the shopper to determine what food items are available to them, find recipes and cooking tips to help save time and money and to provide nourishing foods to families using WIC. The Nevada Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, better known as Nevada WIC, has received one of four nationally grant funded awards from the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition to test the integration of WIC online ordering using the WICShopper app.
of Health and Human ServicesĬARSON CITY, Nev.
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