INDIANAPOLIS — More Indiana families may be eligible for nutrition benefits through the Women, Infants and Children program under revised federal poverty guidelines for 2016. WIC is a supplemental nutrition program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and managed by the Indiana State Department of Health. It provides healthy foods, breastfeeding support and nutrition …read more.

WARSAW — The Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club recently donated $500 to the Young Entrepreneurs Academy. Through various fundraising activities during the year, the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club raises nearly $30,000 to donate to youth oriented activities. The club also recently donated $1,000 to the Kosciusko County WIC program. Through various fundraising activities during the year, the Warsaw Breakfast Optimist Club raises …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — No medicine works for premature infants like human milk, but many infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit don’t have access to this resource. The Milk Bank, a nonprofit serving NICUs across the Midwest, is now expanding into Northern Indiana so more families can be part of this lifesaving mission. They are …read more.

Since 1996, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Woman, Infants and Children, often referred to as WIC, has been one of Cardinal Services’ most highly utilized programs. As Cardinal Services celebrates its 60th anniversary year, the national WIC program is turning 40. It was then that WIC began providing funding to aid low-income pregnant and …read more.