Texas WIC News, Volume 18, Number 6, November/December 2009 Page: 6
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Provides New
WIC Certification
Training to Local
Agencies
by Tonia Swartz, R.D., L.D.,
WIC Clinical Nutrition Specialist
Tara Ray, M.A., Lorna Reutner, M.A., and
Carol Spaulding, Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Austin, WCS TeamIs there aWIC certification spe-
cialist in your future?
Does your local agency need the
services of aWIC certification
specialist (WCS)? Have you put off
training a specialist due to the work
and resources involved in developing
your own training and materials? It
will be easier now, thanks to a new
training program.
In collaboration with The University
of Texas at Austin, the WIC Clinical
Services Branch is currently
developing a competency-based
training certification program that
may be used by local agencies
interested in implementing a WCS
program.
Why is the certification training
being developed?
Currently, there is no official training
curriculum available for local agen-
cies to use as a model for develop-ing their own training program for WCS candidates. This new
program provides standardized training to help ensure that all
candidates go through the same consistent and reliable training
program. Local agencies no longer have to devote valuable time
and resources to developing their own programs. The new train-
ing program will replace existing WCS programs currently in use
by local agencies and will be utilized by any agency approved
for starting this program. New candidates starting the training
program at an already approved WIC certification specialist lo-
cal agency will be required to use this new program.
In addition, if a certified WIC certification specialist moves from
one agency to another, the hiring agency will be reassured to
know that the specialist has been thoroughly trained by a stan-
dardized, competency-based program.
What does the training cover?
The new certification program is a self-paced manual that con-
sists of eleven modules covering the following competency areas:
VENA skills: rapport building, communication and critical
thinking.
Professional skills: program delivery, ethics and professional-
ism, customer service and group education.
Clinical skills: anthropometric and biochemical data collection,
health assessment and individual counseling.Texas News
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