Women, Infants and Children

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Olmsted County Public Health Services

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: County of Olmsted, MN ; Olmsted County Community Services ; Olmsted County Public Health Services

Potential Collaborators: Christmas Anonymous

Related Projects

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Basic Needs

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Basic Needs, Food, Governance/Public Policy

Level 2: Financial Stress/Homelessness, Food, Governance/Public Policy, Health & Wellness

DMC Impacts:

Community Health Impacts:

Financial Stress/Homelessness

Type of Project

WIC serves babies and children up to age 5, pregnant women, and new mothers. Dads, grandparents, foster parents of young children, and working families are welcome at WIC too!

WIC is a health and nutrition program for growing families. Choosing healthy foods while you're pregnant, learning how to breastfeed and taking care of you and your family's nutrition is a big job. WIC is here to support you. We help families by providing nutrition education, breastfeeding support, healthy foods, and referrals to healthcare and other community services."

The benefits of the WIC Program include: 

• Nutritious foods, such as milk, whole grains, cereal, eggs, fruits and vegetables, peanut butter or beans.
• Breastfeeding information, support and breastfeeding counselors
• Infants who are partially or not breastfed may receive iron-fortified formula
• Nutrition and health information
• Referrals to health and social services when appropriate

To find out if you qualify or to find out more information, call us at 507 328-7555.  Our staff can help answer your questions and schedule your appointments.  If participants do not understand English well, let our staff know and we can schedule an interpreter to be with you at your appointments.

If you do not live in Minnesota or Olmsted County call 800 WIC-4030 to find the WIC clinic closest to you.

Mayor Communications  

City of Rochester Mayor Kim Norton to attend the National League of Cities (NLC) 2025 Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C. from March 8-12, 2025.

City of Rochester Mayor Kim Norton to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) 93rd Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.

DMC Feb 2025 Board Meeting Memo 

City of Rochester Receives $84.92 Million Federal Grant for Transformative Link Bus Rapid Transit Project

LINK Progress Report to City Council 

Rochester eyes TIF to support Transit Village, Public Parking

March 2, 2025 Update per PB Reporting

The City of Rochester and Mayor Kim Norton are excited to once again participate in the League of Minnesota Cities’ (LMC) annual Mayor for a Day Essay Contest.  

Feb 3, 2025 City Council Proceedings

PB Reporting  

Video Recording Link

Presentation

Collaboration Commitment

Results Report

City Council Study Session

Annual Report; Metrics and Accountability; 2nd Street SW Public Realm Enhancement; Public/Private Collaboration to advance City for Health brand; Video Recording

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

 PB Reporting regarding TIF $14M Requests (Sherman and Prairie Ridge) 2024-12-14 

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

PB Reporting on Referendum Efforts and Results

Support for: Drug and Alcohol Response Team (DART), CredibleMind, "Be in the Know Olmsted" Campaign

City Council Oct 2024 on DMC 2025 Budget

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.  

Post Bulletin Reporting

United Way 2024 ALICE  (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Report 

July 17, 2024 City of Rochester: Adopting a Resolution authorizing an amendment to the Development Assistance Agreement and the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants to revise the affordability covenants related to the 80% Units.

March and May 2023 reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations. 

June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough 

Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec