Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a supplemental nutrition program that serves to safeguard the health of income-eligible women, infants and children up to age five who are at nutritional risk.
Beginning in October, the Oklahoma Women, Infants and Children Program will be transitioning from Gerber to Similac brand. Infants previously receiving standard Gerber brand formula benefits will automatically be changed to the most comparable Similac brand infant formula. If you have concerns during the transition, please contact your WIC Clinic or your child’s health care provider. View a transition guide.
This is an application for the Oklahoma Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Completion of the application does not guarantee you will receive WIC benefits, but it will make it possible for the WIC program to contact you to complete the eligibility process over the phone rather than in person. This application requests that you upload documents such as identification, income information, and address. These can be photos of the documents.
More than 7.5 million people benefit from WIC each month. Services include: Nutrition education for families, referrals to various social service agencies, and issuance of food benefits that can be used at various grocery stores for health foods such as milk, cheese, eggs, fruits, vegetables, beans, peanut butter, infant foods and formula, juice and cereal.
Applicants must live in the state in which they apply and meet income guidelines. WIC is a program of the Food and Nutrition Service, a federal agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is not an entitlement program, but rather a federal grant program for which Congress authorizes a specific amount of funds annually.
Please call 918-582-9355 for more details regarding what to bring with you to appointments.
The neighborhood WIC site is one of the few places that young families visit regularly from birth to age 5. Therefore, families can benefit from school readiness interventions that begin long before school-age. All THD WIC clinics feature an early literacy program for clients.
The Little by Little School Readiness program is designed to provide the knowledge and resources to families so they can begin to foster and support early literacy habits within their home on a daily basis. During the course of their visits to WIC, program participants receive:
Families eligible for WIC who are interested in the program can call 918-582-WELL (9355) to learn how to enroll. Seed funding for the development of the Little by Little School Readiness program was provided by First 5 LA. Funding for the THD’s Little by Little program is provided by the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
Breastfeeding promotion is an integral part of the WIC program. Its goal is to promote and support breastfeeding statewide.
We have 10 locations across Tulsa County that offer a variety of services to help you and your family stay healthy.
