Winter Garden WIC moves to new home

The Florida Department of Health in Orange County Winter Garden Women, Infants and Children office is relocating to a new site.

The Winter Garden WIC office moved Aug. 26, from 1210 E. Plant St. to 13275 W. Colonial Drive and will share space with Community Health Centers Inc., which offers other family medical and dental care.   

The move will improve accessibility of services for many clients, because the office is closer to a Lynx bus route. Also, WIC program services will be provided where many existing clients receive their healthcare. 

WIC is a federally funded program that provides healthy food, as well as breastfeeding education and nutrition counseling to families in need. Florida’s WIC Program operates 220 sites throughout the state. In Orange County, the average annual value of WIC foods received by WIC clients is $27.7 million. Currently Orange County provides WIC services to more than 33,000 participants monthly in eight permanent locations.  

For more information, visit orchd.com/personalHealth/wic.