40 YEARS OF WOMEN, INFANTS AND CHILDREN

A ROMANCE

The story of WIC and Burger, Carroll & Associates, Inc.

In 1974 WIC Began, and …

Julie Carroll was raised in Iowa, the daughter of a USDA Extension Agent and a school teacherIn 1974 she enrolled in a Home Economics degreeprogram at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

And …

Art Burger enrolled in a political science/public administration program at the University of California, Riverside

And We Learned About WIC

Julie went on to grad school at the University of Arizona and majored in Nutrition Science and began working as a extension aide where she saw first hand the early work of the WIC Program

Art went on to grad school at the University of California and majored in public law and administration and while working on an NSF study of intergovernmental relations and learned about the growth of the new categorical grant called WIC

After Graduating They Both Went to Work in WIC

• Julie went to work as the WIC Nutritionist for the White Mountain Apache program

• Art went to work as the manager of the first national study of fraud and abuse in the WIC Program (e.g. Analogs Study)

They Met at the National WIC Conference in 1984, when Julie was the New Mexico

State WIC Director and Art had begun advising WIC Technology Projects

In 1988

• Julie entered the Nutritional Epidemiology doctoral program and UC Berkeley

• Art and Julie got married

• And in January 1989 they started Burger, Carroll & Associates, Inc.

Twenty Five Years of the Family Business

• Between 1989 and 2014 4 Burgers, 5 Carrolls, 4 former WIC directors, 2 former WIC nutritionists and 2 former WIC vendor managers worked for BCA

• BCA assisted WIC through 4 generations of technology, including all 3 SAMs, assisted SNAP and early WIC EBT implementations, and conducted numerous evaluations of cost containment, administrative funding, vendor management, nutrition education, and breastfeeding promotion and support programs

From Alaska to Puerto Rico to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, all states in between and on to Europe and Asia

A Lasting Legacy• Carroll, J. Stein, C., Byron M, and Dutram K. “Using Interactive

Multimedia to Deliver Nutrition Education to Maine’s WIC Clients” in Journal of Nutrition Education, Volume 28 Number 1(p. 19-25).

• Carroll, J., Saunders, S., and Johnson, C., BREASTFEEDING: A Problem-Solving Manual, Essential Medical Information Systems, Inc., Durant, Oklahoma, Fourth Edition, 1995.

The Next Generation

What Are We Doing Now• Project Manager Nebraska WIC MPSC Transfer and EBT Planning

Project (Doug Burger, PM) • Quality Assurance Contractor for Mississippi transfer of SPIRIT

(Lisa Cwanger-Ichilov, PM)• EBT Planning Contactor for Alaska WIC Program (Art Burger, PM)• EBT Planning Contactor for South Carolina WIC Program (Lisa

Cwanger-Ichilov, PM; Lyn VanRaden, Sr. SME)• Chair of Advisory Panels for USDA/FNS Studies of Cost

Containment & High Risk Detection in WIC EBT (Art Burger, PM)• Feasibility Study of Prepaid Debit Solutions for Wisconsin Child

Care and TANF Programs (Art Burger, PM)• Several IV&V engagements for New Mexico Cabinet agencies

(Nick Behrmann, PMP, PM)

You Never Know Where WIC Will Take You

But we sure intend to stick around for the next 40 years to find out