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Women, Infants & Children Program
Celebrates Opening of New Fountain Valley Center
(Fountain Valley/Huntington Beach)
– The Orange County Health Care Agency’s Women, Infants & Children (WIC)
Supplemental Nutrition Program will celebrate the opening of a new WIC
center in Fountain Valley at an open house on October 29 from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. The new center located at 8570 Warner Street will offer services to
the Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach communities. Guests at the open
house will tour the new center and have the opportunity to meet WIC staff
to discuss the program’s services.
Prior to the new center, the WIC Program provided services for the Oakview
neighborhood/community at the Oakview Family Resource Center (FRC) and at
the Jeanne Hardy Head Start Centers in Huntington Beach. Having
limitations to expand at the Huntington Beach locations and the need to
accommodate eligible participants, the WIC program moved into a larger
space close to the Oakview community.
WIC is now able to accommodate and serve more participants, both from
Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley, as well as provide a more accessible
location to better serve its clients. WIC will continue to serve Oakview
residents at the Oakview FRC located at 17261 Oak Lane in Huntington Beach
once a month.
The WIC Program serves pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women, as
well as infants and young children, up to five years of age, who meet
nutritional need and income criteria. WIC’s mission is to prevent health
problems and to improve the health of program participants through
nutritional education and supplemental foods during critical times of
growth and development. Other WIC centers are located in the cities of
Buena Park, Santa Ana, Westminster, Costa Mesa, San Juan Capistrano and
Anaheim. For more information about WIC and the Fountain Valley Center
Open House, call
(714) 834-8333. Information is also available online at:
www.ochealthinfo.com/public/nutrition/wic.htm.
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