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Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

WIC is a supplemental food and nutrition education program that provides vouchers to
purchase specific foods. It provides nutrition counseling to pregnant, postpartum, or
breastfeeding women, infants, and children under age five with nutritional and financial needs.
Your child’s doctor or EPSDT screening providers must refer eligible infants and children to the
local health department for additional information and a WIC eligibility determination.
The Virginia Department of Health's Nutrition Services Team is committed to practicing and
promoting good health. Contact the Nutrition Services Team at 1-888-942-3663.


Head Start

Head Start is a federally funded pre-school program that serves low-income children and their
families. Contact your local school division for more information.

Healthy Start

Some areas in Virginia have high amounts of babies born with low birth weights, late-term
miscarriages, infant deaths, and births to teenage mothers. Pregnant women in these areas
are often unable to see doctors because they do not have insurance or enough insurance. The
Virginia Healthy Start Initiative (VHSI) is designed to reduce infant deaths in these urban and
rural areas and small towns: Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth, and Westmoreland County.
Information about Healthy Start can be obtained by contacting the Healthy Start Program
Coordinator at the VDH Division of Women’s and Infant’s Health at 804-864-7764.

Early Intervention Program

Early intervention services, also known as “Part C” of the Individuals with Disabilities Act
(IDEA), are available throughout Virginia to help infants and toddlers from birth through age
two who are not developing as expected or who have a medical condition that can delay
normal development. For more information, visit the Early Intervention Program website at
www.infantva.org or call the toll-free number 1-800-234-1448.

Resource Mothers Program

Teenagers are a group at high risk for poor birth outcomes, both medically and socially. The
Resource Mothers Program trains and supervises laywomen to serve as a social support for
pregnant teenagers and teenage parents of infants. The program helps low-income pregnant
teenagers get prenatal care and other community services, follow good health care practices,
continue in school, and encourage the involvement of the infant’s father and teens’ parents to
create a stable, nurturing home. For further information, contact the Division of Women’s and
Infants’ Health, Virginia Department of Health at 804-864-7768