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Health Department WIC Program Provides Nutritional Support during Pandemic

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The Hamilton County Health Department’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program has continued to support qualifying mothers and children with healthy nutrition, nutritional education, and breastfeeding support throughout the pandemic.

Any mothers with children under the age of five, who are experiencing financial hardship, are urged to apply for these benefits.

“We want eligible families to know we are here for them during these difficult times,” said WIC Regional Manager Angie Gross. “For the safety and convenience of our clients, we offer enrollment and ongoing services by phone, so it couldn’t be easier to be a WIC client right now.”

The Tennessee WIC program provides food assistance, nutrition education, and breastfeeding support to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding women, infants, and children until age five. WIC has proven to be effective in preventing and improving nutrition related health problems.

Does your family qualify for WIC? Call the number closest to you and speak to one of the Health Department’s nutrition specialists to find out. For safety and convenience, all appointments are over-the-phone.

  • Birchwood* — 423-209-8220
  • Ooltewah Health Center* — 423-713-6177
  • Sequoyah Health Center— 423-713-6153
  • Family Health/Pediatrics (3rd St. location) 423-209-8050
  • Dodson Avenue (an Erlanger Community Health Center)— 423-209-8220

Please note, Health Department clinics marked with * are not open for other services, but these phone numbers will connect you with staff who handle WIC clients in those parts of the county.

More about WIC eligibility can be found on the Health Department’s WIC webpage.

Additional Health Department information may be accessed here:

 

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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