Tag: WIC

  • Voices: Identifying Barriers to Health Faced by City Heights Immigrants

    Overcoming Barriers to Health is a collaboration between The AjA Project and UCSD’s Center for Community Health. The young women that participated ranged from 12 to 17 years old and were first- and second-generation East African refugees and immigrants. Through photography, participants collectively identified health issues and then used their images to create a dialogue…

  • Healthy Eating Benefits Waistline And Wallets For Low-Income Families

    By Peggy Pico The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program provides low-income families who qualify with food vouchers. Those vouchers will soon have double value when used to buy healthy foods, like fresh fruit and vegetables. The incentive idea comes from the California Endowment, a statewide health foundation. Tony Iton, M.D., J.D., is senior vice…