Examples of Activities for WISE Report Categories

General Administration:

• General management (majority of the local agency director’s salary)
• Salaries of accountant, program specialist, and ADP specialist for time spent on general admin activities
• Outreach
• Program reporting
• Vendor contracts/evaluations
• Vendor monitoring
• Food instrument security and accountability
• Food instrument reconciliation
• Payroll and employee time accounting
• Personnel counseling, performance evaluation, monitoring
• Accounting, audits, self audits (not NE or BF portion)
• Financial or legal services
• Clerical support for accountants program specialists, director
• Prevention of fraud
• Office equipment, furnishings, supplies used to support general admin activities
• Data processing (ADP) costs, associated with general admin activities
• Portion of office space/utilities, telephone, fax services, postage/freight & travel to support general admin activities

Client Services:

• Obtaining/assessing height, weight, and blood samples for certification
• Obtaining/assessing diet recall information
• Explanation of eligibility to applicants
• Issuance of food instruments
• Training participants on how to use their food instruments
• Referrals to other health care and social services
• Coordination with other agencies/programs to obtain services for WIC clients
• Participation in activities which promote a broader range of health and social services for participants
• Participation in surveys/studies which evaluate the impact of WIC on its participants
• Medical supplies and equipment necessary to conduct required diet and health assessments
• Portion of office space/utilities, phone, fax services, postage/freight & travel used to conduct clients service activities
• Clerical support for clinic operations associated with serving clients
• Scheduling of appointments
• Income screening and verification

Nutrition Education:

• Teaching nutrition education classes (not BF)
• Individual counseling (not BF)
• Documenting NE contracts
• NE portion of self audit
• Preparation/planning for NE classes or individual counseling sessions
• Developing and providing NE materials
• Attendance of NE training sessions (to include travel, course fees, tuition)
• NE training of other staff
• Completing NE modules
• Interpreter/translator services to facilitate NE
• Enclosure of NE materials in advance/triple envelopes
• Scheduling of NE classes
• Equipment and furnishings used to conduct NE activities
• NE supplies/materials such as brochures, incentive items of nominal cost, demonstration food item
• Evaluation or monitoring of NE
• Portion of office space/utilities, telephone, fax services, postage/freight & travel used to conduct NE activities
• ADP services which provide nutrition education (multi-media units), track nutrition risk or NE contacts

Breastfeeding:

• Teaching, planning and preparing for BF classes
• Individual counseling on breastfeeding
• Interpreter/translator services to facilitate breastfeeding education
• Peer counseling to include scheduling and coordination
• Developing and providing BF materials
• Breastfeeding materials/supplies such as brochures & breastfeeding aids used in BF promotion and support
• Attendance of BF training sessions (to include travel, course fees, tuition)
• Self audit to assess adherence to BF policies
• Scheduling of BF sessions
• Evaluation or monitoring of BF
• Portion of office space/utilities, telephone, fax services, postage/freight & travel used to conduct BF activities
• Equipment and furnishings used to conduct BF activities
• ADP services which track breastfeeding rates

Note: these examples are not all inclusive