In addition to the health benefits, WIC saves money. At the breakfast, women and children who participated in WIC joined Senators, Congressional staff and WIC leaders from across the country for a nutritious WIC breakfast. The gala reception in the evening brought together the WIC community, members of the House of Representatives and their staffs. As part of the 25th Anniversary Celebration, FRAC will release a report later this spring with state by state data on participation in the WIC program by women, infants and children since the programs inception. For example, the Mount Pleasant Freedom School in Kansas City, MO uses SFSP to feed participants a healthy breakfast.
Breakfast is a popular option with sponsors.
In fact, 21.8 percent of the meals and snacks served through SFSP in 1998 were breakfasts. The Freedom School is able to use SFSP to serve breakfast because of a partnership between the City of Kansas City Neighborhood and Community Services Department and the Kansas City School District. Last summer, the Neighborhood and Community Services Department sponsored 57 summer feeding sites, including the Freedom School, and it will be sponsoring the program again this summer. The Kansas City School District in Missouri vends the meals and delivers them to each site every day. The Mount Pleasant Freedom School is operated by the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church.