South End Location
\n<\/strong>Dickson said she finds joy in welcoming all cultures and nationalities. Employees at her office are fluent in French Creole and Spanish as a second language, and\u00a0employees at other locations speak Cantonese, Vietnamese, French,\u00a0Cape Verdean Creole, and Portuguese – all with\u00a0efforts to better service residents in the community seeking\u00a0WIC services.<\/p>\n“We do a lot of education around how to prepare certain foods. New cultures come into Massachusetts so we learn about their culture and diet. People have gone through many changes, we don\u2019t want people to think they cannot have the foods they’re used to eating,\u201d Dickson said.<\/p>\n
Wanda Medina, Program Assistant\u00a0for 15 years at the South End WIC office, said the best part of her job is working with the people in the community. “It\u2019s a great job; listening to them and making them stronger,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Joanne Dorgilus is a WIC nutritionist who worked at the South End office for a year.\u00a0\u201cWe are here to help you, not only to give you supplements like milk and cheese, but also to give you nutritional council,\u201d Dorgilus said.<\/p>\n
April 2017 marks Dickson’s\u00a040th year at WIC. She said she wants to continue to make sure she’s there for people in the community for years to come. “I want to keep on doing this because people need us,” Dickson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Video by Mukala Kabongo and Dalinda Ifill-Pressat) By Mario D. Zepeda Rhonda Dickson said she’s never been more concerned about\u00a0the financial stability\u00a0of social service programs in Massachusetts, such as WIC – a special supplemental nutrition program for\u00a0Women, Infants and Children.\u00a0 For 40 years, Dickson, the director of WIC in Boston’s South End, has helped\u00a0low-income\u00a0families get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publicsafetyhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invisibleboston.micheli.emerson.build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}