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Program Functional Area 3: FOOD DELIVERY AND FOOD INSTRUMENT ACCOUNTABILITY

Goal 3: To improve food delivery operations at the state and local agency level.

Objective: 3.1 Improve functionality of the Nutrition Module in CT-WIC. Objective: 3.2 Follow up on participant shopping experience project. Objective: 3.3 Cross training of staff on vendor and nutrition modules. Objective: 3.4 Support of Department of Agriculture in electronic Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP). Objective: 3.5 Make changes to food packages and eligible foods in response to Final Rule for Revisions in the WIC Food Packages.

Objective Strategies/Activities Baseline Indicators Progress 3.1 Improve functionality of the Nutrition Module in CT- WIC.

Utilize redemption data to determine the status of authorized vendors in meeting the competitive pricing criteria. October 2022 Manual exports are needed to obtain the data. Prices collected during monitoring visits do not reflect items that participants are purchasing. Competitive pricing report is now being tested in the SSRS reporting portal and will be used monthly to determine if vendors are competitively priced. Correct the functionality of UPC Upload for batch uploading into the APL. October 2018 CT-WIC errors occurred when uploading text file. WIC IT staff make batch changes in the database. Will explore in Q1 of FY25 how to populate the database using a spreadsheet with new APL items. Assess NTE Modeling enhancement and develop cat/subcat max price report in reporting portal. August 2021 Reports in SSRS reporting portal utilize data from CTWIC. Updates were made to the cat/subcat report in February 2024 and is available in the SSRS reporting portal. CT WIC is using the 97% of Max Price report to assess high