Participant Centered Services

Participant Centered Services Toolkit

The following assessment tools have been developed to assist local WIC agencies in creating a system-wide participant-centered WIC program.

• Iowa WIC Clinic Assessment Form (Fillable)
• Iowa WIC Clinic Assessment Form 

Participant Centered Websites

The following websites are being shared to assist local WIC agencies in providing nutrition education in a participant centered manner.

• Heart Button Counseling

Head Start Verification Form

The following forms can be used for adjunctive eligibility for families who have been income certified in the Head Start/Early Head Start Program.

• HS/EHS Program Verification Form
• HS/EHS Program Verification Form-Fillable

Culture Toolkit

According to Merriam Webster, Culture is the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also: the characteristic features of everyday existence (such as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time.  In other words, it’s what you grow up with.  Culture can be both surface level or embedded.  In order to learn about the embedded culture of others, we must be willing to ask questions and learn about experiences.  The Iowa WIC Program serves thousands of participants from all races, ethnicities, and backgrounds and employs well over a hundred local agency staff. Rather than waiting for each individual staff person to meet and learn from their own interactions and experiences with people from different cultures, we have provided the following resources and information for the 21 most prevalent racial and ethnic cultural groups in Iowa.  Our goal is that this toolkit helps our local WIC staff be culturally competent so they can provide the best nutrition services possible to the diverse group of participants we serve.

• African American Culture | References African American
• Burmese Culture | References Burma
• Chinese Culture | References Chinese
• Congolese Culture | References Congolese
• El Salvadorans Culture 
• Ethiopian Culture | References Ethiopia
• Guatemalan Culture | References Guatemala
• Indian Culture | References India
• Japanese Culture (References Japanese)
• Kirundi Culture | References Kirundi
• Laotian Culture | References Loa & Hmong
• Mexican Culture | References Hispanic
• Micronesian Culture | References Micronesia
• Orthodox Jewish Culture | References Orthodox Jewish
• Other Pacific Islander Culture | References Pacific Islander
• Somalian Culture | References Somali
• South Korean Culture | References South Korea
• Sudanese Culture | References Sudanese
• Swahili Culture | References Swahili
• Ukrainian Culture 
• Vietnamese Culture | References Vietnam