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Steps to Participate in the WIC Pilot
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WIC Pilot Overview
Since 2015, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in Texas has joined with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) in the WIC Pilot program to increase Texas children’s access to healthy meals during the summer. The WIC Pilot is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Initiative that allows eligible Summer Meal Programs sponsors to provide no cost meals to children in designated WIC clinics. WIC Pilot clinics serve no cost summer meals to WIC participants 18 and younger, enrolled students under 21 years old with disabilities, and any children 18 and younger attending WIC appointments.
The information below outlines steps for eligible CEs to participate in the WIC Pilot in 2025. Guidance only applies to CEs that have been invited to participate in the WIC Pilot by TDA.
If you have any questions, please contact TDA at summermeals@texasagriculture.gov.
Follow these Steps to Participate in the WIC Pilot in 2025
TDA will not be matching CEs with WIC clinics for summer 2025. CEs will be responsible for contacting the eligible WIC clinic(s) that they can support as meal sites this summer.
Step 1: Click here to review the list of eligible WIC clinics that need a summer sponsor. CEs can sort the data by site city or zip code to find if there are WIC clinics near them that need a sponsor.
Step 2: Contact the WIC clinic(s) to discuss summer meals logistics and determine if you can support the WIC clinic(s) as a summer meal site. Once you have confirmed that you will partner with one or more WIC clinics in summer 2025, move to Step 3.
Step 3: Click here to fill out this short survey to notify TDA and Texas WIC that you plan to participate in the WIC Pilot and include the name(s) of the WIC clinic(s) your school/organization will support in summer 2025. TDA will use the survey answers to update data on this spreadsheet and remove WIC sites that have been matched with a CE. Survey data will let TDA and TX WIC know which WIC clinics still need a CE. It will also help TDA review site applications to ensure they are filled out correctly.
Step 4: Fill out a site application in TX-UNPS for each WIC clinic.
- On the site application in TX-UNPS, the site name should be preceded by the word "WIC."
- On the site application, in TX-UNPS, enter WIC Pilot site types as “Open Restricted” in the SFSP application or “Restricted Open” in the SSO application.
Step 5: Follow all other Summer Meal Programs requirements (provide site training, conduct site visits, etc.). Review additional WIC Pilot specific requirements below.
WIC Pilot CE Requirements:
WIC Pilot Approved Menus and Meal Guidance:
Foods that are Not WIC Allowable Items:
- Flavored milks
- Juices with added sugar
- Bologna or turkey bologna
- Chips, nuts in fruit breakfast bars, hard raw vegetables, whole uncut apples, hot dogs, bone-in meat (choking hazard)
- Peanut butter (allergen)
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Assistance available in English and Spanish. Please call 877-TEX-MEAL (877-839-6325) for help. Additional translations services available as well.
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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 on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.
Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.
To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:
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1. Mail:
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
2. Fax: (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or
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