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    Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Authorized Vendors

    Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

    This dataset contains the vendor name and location of all currently active vendors authorized to offer supplemental foods to participants for redemption with WIC food instruments and vouchers.

    The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program is a federally-funded health and nutrition program that provides assistance to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under age five. WIC helps California families by providing food instruments and vouchers that can be used to purchase healthy supplemental foods from over 4000 WIC-authorized vendor stores throughout the State. WIC also provides nutritional education, breastfeeding support and help finding healthcare and other community services. Participants must meet income guidelines and other criteria. Currently, 84 WIC agencies provide services monthly to over 1.45 million participants at over 650 sites in local communities throughout the State.

    For a mobile friendly site on WIC vendors and other WIC-related information visit: https://m.wic.ca.gov/

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
    Publisher California Department of Public Health
    Maintainer
    Identifier 0f63ceef-ed21-4f11-98b0-3f0b0f8c96cd
    Data First Published 2017-06-16T22:20:21.523057
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-20T12:03:12.891596
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 0564e78e-135b-493b-b0e4-7749b36fb465
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 76b6488ef5b6435c4684cc8e27ee85f3ece75b92580d4b30f33ef2ecbff150eb
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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