Meaningful Minutes - WIC Skills in 10

Each Meaningful Minutes training is designed to increase CPA knowledge for assessing nutrition risk and to build counseling skills for a specific nutrition topic. New trainings will be added regularly and will be announced in the Weekly Update. Join us for 10 minutes of learning and skill building!

Action steps:

• Watch the short, on-demand video. (To view, scroll down to the ‘Training Videos and Worksheets’ section.)
• Check out the resources.
• Discuss the questions on the staff worksheet to enhance learning and build skills!

Time spent viewing the video and discussing the staff questions can be included in the hours required for the CPA Section 4.5: Staff Training annual Continuing Education (PDF).

Meaningful Minutes training videos:

• Preventing Anemia in Children
• Preventing Anemia in Women
• Preventing Anemia in Infants
• Assessment of Infant Growth and Intake
• Part 2: Typical Infant Growth Patterns
• Developmental Readiness of Infants for Solid Foods
• Introduction of Potentially Allergenic Foods
• Advancing Textures Part 1

Introductory videos

Meaningful Minutes: WIC Skills in 10 Intro Video

Meaningful Minutes: Dodge County Story of Low Hemoglobin

Training videos and worksheets

These videos are listed with the newest videos on top, descending through previously posted videos.

Meaningful Minutes - Advancing Textures Part 1

Resources

• Staff Worksheet Advancing Textures Part 1 (PDF)

Meaningful Minutes - Introduction of Potentially Allergenic Foods

Resources

• Introduction of Allergenic Foods - Staff Worksheet (PDF)
• National WIC Association Practical Food Allergy Prevention: Applying Currently Available Guidelines to WIC Families
• American Academy of Pediatrics: When to Introduce Egg, Peanut Butter & Other Common Food Allergens to a Baby
• Solid Starts: Food Allergies and Babies: Introducing Allergens
• Fleischer, D.M., et al. (2019) Guidelines for Early Food Introduction and Patterns of Food Allergy Pediatrics, 143(4)
• Greenhawt. M., et al. (2025) Encouraging Trends in Peanut Allergy Prevention: Real-World Impact of Prevention Guidelines. Pediatrics.

Meaningful Minutes - Developmental Readiness of Infants for Solid Foods

Resources

• Developmental Readiness of Infants for Solid Foods Staff Worksheet (PDF)
• WIC Risk Code 411
• Live Well WIC - Understanding Your Older Baby
• HealthyChildren.org - Starting Solid Foods, Tips for Introducing Solid Foods, Heavy Metals in Baby Food
• Solid Starts - Allergies and Babies Resource
• Healthy Eating Research - Feeding Guidelines Brief (PDF)
• Gerber Medical - Patient Resources
• Minnesota WIC - Introducing Solid Foods (PDF)

Meaningful Minutes - Part 2: Typical Infant Growth Patterns

Resources

• Part 2: Typical Infant Growth Patterns Worksheet(PDF)
• WIC Risk Code 135: Slowed/Faltering Growth Pattern (Justification)
• Michigan DHHS - Feeding your baby: Birth to 6 months (PDF)
• Paced Bottle Feeding (PDF)

Meaningful Minutes - Assessment of Infant Growth and Intake

Resources

• Assessment of Infant Growth and Intake Staff Worksheet (PDF)
• Guidance for WIC Nutrition/Breastfeeding Cards
• The First 3 Months Nutrition Ed Card (PDF)
• The First Months Nutrition Ed Card (PDF)
• Paced Bottle Feeding Nutrition Ed Card (PDF)
• MN WIC Baby Behavior Education (YouTube)
• WIC Baby Behavior Brochure (PDF)
• Hungry of Full Know Baby's Cues wichealth to go (PDF)
• Tips for Bottle Feeding wichealth to go (PDF)
• Feeding Your Newborn Lesson in wichealth.org

Meaningful Minutes - Preventing Anemia in Infants

Resources:

• Anemia in Infants Staff Worksheet (PDF)
• WIC 201 Low Hematocrit/Low Hemoglobin
• American Academy of Pediatrics: Diagnosis and Prevention of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in Infants and Young Children (0-3 years of age)
• Infant Cereal: Topic of the Month (PDF)
• Anemia Resources
• WIC Infant Food Recipes
• WIC 411 Inappropriate Nutrition Practices for Infants, Justification for risk code
• WIC 411 Inappropriate Nutrition Practices for Infants, Justification for risk code 411K

Meaningful Minutes - Preventing Anemia in Women

Resources:

• Preventing Anemia in Women Staff Worksheet (PDF)
• WIC 201 Low Hematocrit/Low Hemoglobin
• WIC 427 Inappropriate Nutrition Practices for Women
• Nausea and Vomiting During Pregnancy (PDF)
• Prenatal Vitamins (PDF)
• Eating More Iron (PDF)
• Anemia Resources
• Google Drive 2025 COWIC Prenatal Postpartum Module (PDF)

Meaningful Minutes - Preventing Anemia in Children

Resources:

• Meaningful Minutes: Preventing Anemia in Children (PDF)
• Preventing Anemia in Children Staff Worksheet (PDF)
• How to Eat More Foods with Iron (PDF)
• New features for wichealth staff accounts (PDF)
• Eating more Iron (PDF)
• Anemia Resources