WIC

About WIC 

Proudly serving Sullivan County residents for over 30 years, WIC makes sure that your family has help to live a healthy life. 

WIC provides a supplemental food package filled with healthy foods that ensures your family is getting the nutrition they need. Foods such as milk, eggs, juice, peanut butter, cereal, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains are made available for your family.

But that’s not all. The WIC Program also provides nutrition and health education and breastfeeding support as well as other services to pregnant women, postpartum women, infants, and children up to the age of five.

WIC is for all kinds of families: married and single parents, working or not working. If you are a father, mother, grandparent, foster parent or legal guardian of a child under five, you can apply for WIC.

What WIC Provides

The WIC program offers a variety of benefits, including:

  • Nutritional education for families
  • Breastfeeding education and support
  • Referrals to resources throughout the community
  • Health assessments
  • Supplemental foods such as milk, cheese, eggs, fruits and vegetables, beans, peanut butter, juice, cereal, and infant formula and foods

How You Qualify

Check out the income guidelines to find out if you qualify for WIC.  If your family receives less than the amount listed, you may be eligible.

Healthy Beginnings

The WIC program is more than just a voucher system.  It is a program built to provide a healthy start for your little ones, from the womb until the age of five.

WIC Department Clinic Hours

  • First Tuesday of the month, 8:30am to 4:30pm,
  • Thursday (the next week after the first Tuesday), 8:30am to 4:30pm,
  • Third Tuesday of the month, 9:00am to 6:00pm, then
  • Wednesday (the next week after the third Tuesday of the month), 9:00am to 5:00pm
  • Other hours may be available upon request. 

For more information or to schedule an appointment, call your Sullivan County WIC Department at 660-265-4141.

Registered Dietician available on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month.

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Nondiscrimination Statement

https://www.fna.usda.gov/civil-rights/nds

For Immediate Release (10-22-2026)

Sullivan County Health Department continues WIC contract.

Milan, MO – The Sullivan County Health Department announces the signing of a contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to continue providing WIC services for the federal fiscal year 2027.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides services to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children up to their fifth birthday based on nutritional risk and income eligibility. The primary services provided are healthy, supplemental food; risk assessment; nutrition education and counseling; breastfeeding promotion and support; and health screening and referrals to health care. To be eligible for WIC, applicants must have an income at or below 185 percent of the poverty level and be at nutritional risk.

WIC supplemental food packages are specially chosen to provide foods high in protein, iron, calcium and vitamins A and C. Eligible women and children receive fortified milk and cheese, eggs, whole grain bread products, hot and cold cereals, 100 percent fruit juices and fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables. The WIC program recommends breastfeeding and provides breastfeeding support, baby foods and infant cereal. For women who cannot or choose not to breastfeed, infants may receive supplemental, iron-fortified formula. WIC participants obtain their food benefits by using their WIC cards to purchase specific items at participating local grocery stores and pharmacies.

Studies confirm that pregnant women who enroll in WIC during the early months of pregnancy have fewer low birth weight babies, experience fewer infant deaths, see the doctor earlier in pregnancy and eat healthier.

WIC is administered in Sullivan County by the Sullivan County Health Department. Persons interested in applying or needing more information should contact the Sullivan County Health Department at 660-265-4141. WIC clinics are offered at the following location(s):

  • Sullivan County Health Department 101 Hawthorne Dr. Milan, MO 63556
    • Clinic hours of operation each month:
      • First Tuesday of the month, 8:30am to 4:30pm,
      • Thursday (the next week after the first Tuesday), 8:30am to 4:30pm,
      • Third Tuesday of the month, 9:00am to 6:00pm, then
      • Wednesday (the next week after the third Tuesday of the month), 9:00am to 5:00pm
      • Other hours may be available upon request. 

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the state or local agency that administers the program or contact USDA through the Telecommunications Relay Service at 711 (voice and TTY). Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf and at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:

(1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Mail Stop 9410, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;

(2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or

(3) email: program.intake@usda.gov.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

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For more information, contact the Sullivan County Health Department at 660-265-4141.