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WIC Food Benefits
The food benefits provided support WIC's nutrition education messages, support successful long-term breastfeeding, and provide more variety of foods. Food benefits are tailored to a participant's needs, age, and breastfeeding level. For example, a woman who is fully breastfeeding her baby receives different types and amounts of foods than a one-year-old child.
Contact WIC
To apply for WIC, submit the form below. A WIC staff member will call to set up your first appointment.
General question about WIC or to contact someone at the state WIC agency, complete the form below.
Current WIC participant with a question about your benefits or to set up an appointment, please call your local WIC office.
Workplace
Substance Use Prevention at Work
When much of our time is spent at work, it makes sense that the environment we work in can impact on our heath, and also on our choice of where to work.
Investing in workplace wellness is good for employee retention and for your bottom line. It costs an average of $4,000 to hire a new employee. Make the most of that investment for long term business and community success. Learn how a team's health and wellbeing can be protected.
Stimulants
Stimulants are a broad class of drugs that increase the activity of the central nervous system and speed up messages traveling between the brain and body.
Opioids
What are Opioids?
Opioids are medications prescribed by doctors to treat pain. Opioids are prescribed to relieve pain from conditions such as dental procedures, injuries, surgeries, cancer.
Prescription opioids are strong medications, which include:
Infectious Disease Materials
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We are currently working on bringing back the ability to order print materials. In the meantime, you can email healtheducators.cdc@maine.gov for print materials or download materials below. Note: not all materials are available in physical form.
Drinking Water System Changes
Before modifications are made to any existing public water system in a manner which may affect the quality of water produced, that system must submit an application detailing the proposed changes to the Drinking Water Program for approval.
The Public Water System Change Application is used to capture information necessary for DWP staff to review and approve proposed construction, addition, or alteration at a Public Water System involving the source, treatment, or storage of water.
Capacity Development
System Capacity refers to the technical, managerial and financial resources of a water system that are necessary for the system to consistently provide safe drinking water for its users.
Each capacity element noted below overlaps and consequently supports the others. Likewise, any weakness or failure of an individual element can lead to the collapse of the others. It is the intent of the Capacity Development Program to prevent the creation of nonviable public water systems, to identify systems at risk and to assist system to acquire and enhance and maintain system capacity.
Financial Resources
The Drinking Water Program has a number of funding programs available to help public water systems improve operations and management. Click on the links below for more information about each funding program available.