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371 Procedure Manual, Program rules and all state and federal laws and amendments governing and regulating the WIC Program. Within thirty (30) days of receipt of an amended policy or rule, PERFORMING AGENCY shall inform RECEIVING AGENCY program in writing if it will not continue performance under this Attachment in compliance with the amended policy or rule. RECEIVING AGENCY may terminate the Attachment immediately or within a reasonable period of time as determined by RECEIVING AGENCY. PERFORMANCE MEASURES The following performance measures will be used to assess, in part, PERFORMING AGENCY'S effectiveness in providing the services described in this contract Attachment, without waiving the enforceability of any of the other terms of the contract. • 98% of families who participate in the WIC program by receiving food instruments shall also receive nutrition education classes or individual counseling services to coincide with food voucher issuance; • Of all pregnant women who enter the WIC program, at least 32% shall be certified as eligible during the period of the first trimester of their pregnancy; • 88% of clients who are enrolled in the program, excluding dual participants, transfer locked and/or migrant clients, shall participate as food instrument recipients each month (breast- feeding infants are also included in the client count); • 60% of infants whose mothers were participants in the program during pregnancy shall be breast -fed at or before the time of their certification of eligibility; • 98% of clients who indicate during the enrollment process that they have no source of health care shall be referred to at least one source of health care at certification of eligibility; and, = • A monthly activity report which demonstrates PERFORMING AGENCY'S efforts towards meeting assigned annual targets shall be completed and submitted to RECEIVING AGENCY within seven (7) working days after the end of each month. SECTION II. SPECIAL PROVISIONS: General Provisions, Assurances Article, is hereby amended to include the following: PERFORMING AGENCY hereby agrees that it shall comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 USC §§ 2000d et seq., Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 USC §§ 1681 et seq., Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 USC § 794, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 42 USC §§ 6101 et seq.; all provisions required by implementing the regulations of the Department of Agriculture, 7 CFR Part 246; ATTACHMENT — Page 4