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Objective Strategies/Activities Baseline Indicators Progress • MCH Block Grant Provide data and narrative for annual reports.

Continue to support WIC & Head Start Better Together Collaboration at 9 local agencies in FY24 via NSA funds and existing contracts.

• Sustaining State level activities include Liaison visits, bi-annual survey, and inclusion of Better Together objectives in LAP Outreach Plans.

• Sustaining local level activities include co-location, collaborative nutrition and outreach, monthly meetings and

As resources allow, continue SNAP-Ed/WIC Program Collaboration to complement WIC nutrition education efforts. Coordinate with SNAP-Ed as needed with local agency workshops that include taste testing and cooking demonstrations at selected sites. Incorporate routine use of SNAP-Ed recipes in WIC education/resources used.

Continue participation in both the Women and Children’s Health Committee and Connecticut Perinatal Quality Collaborative (CPQC). Work with both groups to better coordinate hospital and community messaging about breastfeeding to high-risk populations.

Executed updated MOU with OEC, CT-Head Start Association and 9 local grantees.

SNAP-Ed evaluations and feedback from SNAP-Ed/local agencies/students SNAP-Ed Recipes utilized at local WIC agencies.

Record of Women and Children’s Committee and CPQC meetings.

continues to work collaboratively (monthly check-ins) with OEC to pilot a centralized process for WIC and home visiting referrals in the Bristol/New Britain area. In FY 2024, local four new Head Start program signatories were added to Head Start data sharing MOU. A joint letter was sent to WIC and Head start Programs about reviving the WIC & Head Start Better Together Collaboration post pandemic. In FY 2025, State-level engagement is planned for those areas with new Head Start signatories.

See attached summary of SNAP-Ed/WIC activities.

The State agency did not participate in CPQC this year. Will remove this strategy in FY 2026.