Project UP: WIC and Medicaid Resources
In early 2024, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) launched Project UP — Unlocking the Potential of WIC and Medicaid to Improve Nutrition and Health — to promote Medicaid and WIC policies designed to increase WIC enrollment. The project will support state-level advocacy to increase WIC take-up, identify and share promising practices with national groups and state stakeholders, and publish resources on promising strategies.
Intro to WIC
- CBPP
Policy Basics: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
- NWA
- CBPP
WIC’s Critical Benefits Reach Only Half of Those Eligible | Appendix | State Fact Sheets
- CBPP
- USDA
- USDA
Breastfeeding Promotion in WIC: Current Federal Requirements
- CBPP
Infant Formula Shortage Highlights WIC’s Critical Role in Feeding Babies
- USDA
WIC Eligibility Requirements to Bid on State Agency Infant Formula Contracts
Intro to Medicaid
- CBPP
- MAPCAC
- MACPAC
- MACPAC
- The Commonwealth Fund
The Road to Maternal Health Runs Through Medicaid Managed Care
WIC effectiveness research
- CBPP
- USDA
Reviewing the Evidence for Maternal Health and WIC
Report to Congress
- USDA and AHRQ
- NWA
- USDA
WIC certification streamlining
- CBPP
State WIC Agencies Continue to Use Federal Flexibility to Streamline Enrollment
Compilation of state WIC certification streamlining policies
- CBPP
Assessing Your WIC Certification Practices
WIC certification streamlining toolkit
- CBPP
Streamlining and Modernizing WIC Enrollment
WIC certification streamlining case studies
- USDA
WIC Policy Memo #2023-6: Streamlining Certification Documentation Guidance
- USDA
WIC Certification and Eligibility Resource and Best Practices Guide
Health and nutrition outcomes
- CDC
- CDC
- CDC
- CDC
- KFF
State Health Facts: Health Status
Summarizes health metrics including births, low birthweight, infant mortality, and maternal mortality
- KFF
- The Commonwealth Fund
The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Continues to Worsen: An International Comparison
- National Governors Association
Tackling The Maternal And Infant Health Crisis: A Governor’s Playbook
- USDA
Health-related social needs
- CBPP
States Can Use Medicaid to Help Address Health-Related Social Needs | Blog
- State Health & Value Strategies
Addressing Health-Related Social Needs Through Medicaid Managed Care
Toolkit with state examples
- Center for Health Care Strategies
Expanding the Menu: Opportunities for Medicaid to Better Address Food Insecurity
- Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
- Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation
The evolution and scope of Medicaid Section 1115 demonstrations to address nutrition: a US survey
In partnership with Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute and University of Massachusetts Medical School Department of Population Health and Quantitative Sciences
- National Health Law Program
- CMS
- CMS
- HHS
HHS Call to Action: Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Communities Across the Nation
- White House
- White House
Biden-Harris Administration National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
- White House
White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis
Cross program collaboration
Medicaid and WIC
- CBPP
State Medicaid Agencies Can Partner With WIC Agencies to Improve the Health of Pregnant and Postpartum People, Infants, and Young Children | Blog | Brief | One-pager
- CBPP
- CBPP
Toolkit: Increasing WIC Coverage Through Cross-Program Data Matching and Targeted Outreach
- CBPP
Using Data Matching and Targeted Outreach to Enroll Families With Young Children in WIC | Brief
- CBPP
Matching Data Across Benefit Programs Can Increase WIC Enrollment | Brief
- CBPP
Targeted Text Message Outreach Can Increase WIC Enrollment, Pilots Show | Brief
- FRAC
- USDA
WIC Policy Memorandum #2023-5: Data Sharing to Improve Outreach and Streamline Certification in WIC
SNAP and WIC
- APHSA
Coordinating SNAP and Nutrition Supports Cohort 1 Case Studies and Impact Reports
WIC data
- USDA
National and State Level Estimates of WIC Eligibility and Program Reach in 2021
- USDA
- USDA
Administrative program data