The schedule of classes changes every quarter.  Effort is made to meet your scheduling needs by offering each class on different days of the week and at different times of the day.  Simply call your nearest WIC clinic for the days and times that each class will be offered.

Class Schedule through September 2010 

October-December

Your Guide to WIC Foods: This lesson discusses all of WIC’s New Food Packages. 

January-March  

I’m Not a Baby Anymore: Tips for feeding Toddlers:  This lesson explores common toddler feeding behaviors. Common sense advice is provided to parents to deal with the challenging situations related to feeding a toddler and is appropriate of children 12-to-24 months. 

Understanding Super-Sized Portions: This lesson gives strategies to help families to reduce portion sizes when eating out in order to maintain a healthy weight. 

April-June

What To Do, I Have a Picky Eater: This lesson focuses on feeding the picky eater. 

Understanding Super-Sized Portions: This lesson gives strategies to help families to reduce portion sizes when eating out in order to maintain a healthy weight. 

July-September

Mealtime is Family Time: Mealtime Matters: This is an excellent discussion lesson where parents learn about their division of responsibility as a parenting technique to avoid common mealtime struggles such as picky eaters and food jags. 

Tips for Making Family Life Easier:  Lesson identifies the advantages for eating meals together as a family and how to handle their children’s request for chips, sodas and sweets. 

Effortless Healthy Eating:   Discusses how to eat healthy for life. 

Group Classes Taught All Year 

A Healthy Body Suits Me: Breakfast Is for Champions:  Lesson encourages eating breakfast every day for a better start. Discusses the benefits of eating breakfast. Gives ideas about foods that are easy to eat for breakfast and making time for breakfast.  

Lilly Does Lunch: Nutrition at Noon: Discusses healthy food selections for lunch. 

Baby First Spoonful: Tips for Starting Solids: Lesson discusses tips for starting babies on solids and telling when babies are developmentally ready.  

Feeding Your Infant: 8 to 12 months: Lesson discusses developmental feeding cues that infants exhibit from 8 to 12 months of age and the appropriate parental responses to those cues. 

Childhood Nutrition:  Feeding Your Baby: Lesson demonstrates age appropriate food choices for 1 to 12 month old infants.  The class illustrates the importance of positive, nurturing eating experiences.  During the class parents or caregivers will learn about the importance of breastfeeding, reading hunger cues and fullness cues, introducing solid foods, self-feeding and family meals. 

Feeling Great:  Weight Control Strategies for New Mothers: Lesson for postpartum women discusses weight-control strategies.   

Your New Baby and Your Budget: Discussion lesson identifies ways breastfeeding can reduce the costs associated with a new baby.  Teaches the proper preparation of formula.    

The Best Thing: Breastfeeding and Returning to Work: Motivational and instructional lesson encourages pregnant moms to breastfeed.  Discussion covers benefits of breastfeeding and informs moms about who they can talk to if they have questions or concerns about breastfeeding. 

To Baby With Love: Overcoming Breastfeeding Barriers: Motivational lesson appropriate for pregnant women, expecting fathers, and other family and friends of the pregnant participant.  It covers many of the common barriers to breastfeeding such as pain, embarrassment, and lack of support from family and friends. 

A More Comfortable Pregnancy: This discussion lesson is written in a flexible format. There is an option to discuss different complications of pregnancy; morning sickness, constipation, heartburn or prenatal depression.    

WIC also offers Web Lessons:  Please ask your local WIC office for more information regarding web education!