Counseling and Education Guides

Nutrition Care Process: Success in WIC
This slide presentation [PDF] and toolkit [PDF] discuss using the Nutrition Care Process when counseling WIC clients. This information was presented at the National WIC Meeting in 2009 by Anne Bennett, Director of Nutrition Services at Tri-County Health Department, Greenwood Village, CO.

Nutrition Education Materials
This Web site from Texas includes a collection of fact sheets, handouts, lesson plans and modules that can be used for nutrition education in WIC.

Participant-Centered Nutrition Education Toolkit
This toolkit was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on behalf of the State WIC Programs in the Western Region. It was developed to assist states with the assessment of PCE readiness and provide guidance and resources for the planning and implementation of the PCE model.

Talk, Listen, Connect [PDF]
This guide for facilitating nutrition education sessions with WIC participants was developed by New York with funding from the Food and Nutrition Service. Information is provided on conversation starters, icebreakers, and how to apply the "Talk, Listen, Connect" technique in different situations.

Transition to Talk, Listen, Connect [PDF] is an activity that can be used to assess staff interest and/or readiness to incorporate facilitated discussion as a method of nutrition education.

Touching Hearts, Touching Minds Web site

Touching Hearts, Touching Minds
This Web site of nutrition education materials developed by Massachusetts WIC highlights the emotion-based benefits of making eating and activity changes in addition to the logical, rational benefits of taking action. Also available in Spanish.

WIC Facilitated Group Discussions Guidelines
These education and training materials were developed to help Louisiana WIC implement facilitated group discussions during secondary nutrition education contacts.

WIC Facilitated Group Discussion Guidelines

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