The Henry & Stark County Health Department, alongside First Choice Healthcare’s WIC program, is enhancing services for families in Henry, Stark, Marshall, and Putnam Counties. In-person appointments have fully resumed, with the convenience of an online application still available. A new Illinois WIC EBT Card streamlines grocery shopping for participants, replacing multiple checks with a single card reloaded every three months. Expanded WIC hours now better accommodate busy families. The program offers nutritional support, supplemental foods, and education for eligible pregnant women, infants, postpartum and breastfeeding women, and children up to age five. More details are available at henrystarkhealth.com.
Heather Aldred, RN, Maternal and Child Health Services Supervisor with the Health Department, states, “Henry, Stark, Marshall and Putnam County residents have fully returned to only in-person “Face to Face” appointments and services delivery. We do, however, still offer an online application feature to the program. We are thrilled to once again have the chance to offer these important and vital family services directly to our participants. In addition, we remind those who may be interested in taking advantage of all that WIC offers, that the New Illinois WIC EBT Card is available to all WIC participants! This makes WIC Services even more easy for area families to use.”
Aldred adds, “All current WIC participants and households are now issued just one Illinois WIC EBT Card with all the food benefits on this one card; no more handling multiple checks for different members of your family. The WIC process remains the same, benefits are reloaded on your card every three months after contacting and checking in with our WIC Staff.”
Aldred adds, “We are so excited about this new WIC EBT Card, sometimes referred to as eWIC. Participants now have the ease of taking their shopping list to the store and then buying the food they need when they need them.”
For more information on the department’s WIC and case management services, call the department at (309) 852-5272 (Kewanee) or 792-4011 (Colona), or visit our website to apply at www.henrystarkhealth.com./WIC. For more information, you can also visit www.fns.usda.gov/wic.
