{"id":12884,"date":"2012-03-28T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T23:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cap4kids.org\/columbus\/2012\/03\/28\/323180710\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:32:32","slug":"wic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wic\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Infants &amp; Children (WIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free program for income-eligible pregnant and breastfeeding women, women who recently had a baby, infants, and children up to 5 years of age regardless of citizenship status. Provides nutrition education, breastfeeding education and support, formula, and food vouchers. They provide a WIC Nutrition (EBT) Card to use at grocery stores. Call or visit the websites below for program details and to schedule an appointment at a WIC office near you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>City of Columbus<\/strong>: (614) 645-7280<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbus.gov\/Services\/Food-Protection-Program\/WIC-Program\">columbus.gov\/Services\/Food-Protection-Program\/WIC-Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nationwide Children&#8217;s Hospital WIC Office<\/strong>: (614) 722-2685<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationwidechildrens.org\/family-resources-education\/health-wellness-and-safety-resources\/resources-for-parents-and-kids\/nicu-resources\/general-information\/wic\">nationwidechildrens.org\/family-resources-education\/health-wellness-and-safety-resources\/resources-for-parents-and-kids\/nicu-resources\/general-information\/wic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ohio Department of Health<\/strong>: (844) 601-6881 or (614) 644-8006<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/odh.ohio.gov\/know-our-programs\/women-infants-children\/resources\/women-infants-children-description\">odh.ohio.gov\/wps\/portal\/gov\/odh\/know-our-programs\/women-infants-children\/resources\/women-infants-children-description<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/odh.ohio.gov\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/gov\/59b49d9d-d0cb-470b-8e3b-61213d5b3f02\/Ohio+WIC+Clinic+Locations.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&amp;CONVERT_TO=url&amp;CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_JQGCH4S04P41206HNUKVF31000-59b49d9d-d0cb-470b-8e3b-61213d5b3f02-pv5RZv9\"><strong>Click here for a list of Ohio WIC Offices by County (updated 2025)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>More information about Ohio benefits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/benefits\/\">cap4kids.org\/columbus\/benefits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free program for income-eligible pregnant and breastfeeding women, women who recently had a baby, infants, and children up to 5 years of age regardless of citizenship status. Provides nutrition education, breastfeeding education and support, formula, and food vouchers. They provide a WIC Nutrition (EBT) Card to use at grocery stores. Call or visit the websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,393,571,446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breastfeeding-and-nutrition","category-food","category-help-pay-for-food","category-pregnancy-resources-and-infants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43077,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/43077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cap4kids.org\/columbus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}