The WIC Program provides supplemental foods and nutrition education, including breastfeeding promotion and support: Through local agencies at no cost to eligible individuals; and To pregnant women, postpartum women, breastfeeding women, infants, and children, who are from families with income below a certain established amount and who are determined by a competent professional authority or a competent paraprofessional authority to be at risk with respect to their physical and mental health by reason of inadequate nutrition or health care, or both. The WIC Program serves as an adjunct to good health care during critical times of growth and development in order to prevent health problems and improve the health status of participants.