Nutrition Assistance:
Health & Nutrition
The Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries: https://shorelinesoupkitchens.org
Our pantries located in Old Saybrook, Westbrook, Clinton, Old Lyme and East Lyme provide enough food for three meals for three days for those who attend, and those in their household. The food distributed includes both fresh meat, vegetables, fruit, and dairy and non-perishable canned and packaged food. Residents of the eleven towns served by SSKP are welcome to attend one distribution per week.
Our meal sites are located in Centerbrook, Essex, Deep River, Chester, Old Saybrook, Clinton, and Westbrook. Hot nutritious meals are prepared by volunteers and served family style. Those in need are welcome to attend all our meal sites.
See schedule here: https://shorelinesoupkitchens.org/get-help-2
WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): https://portal.ct.gov/dph/wic/wic
Provides supplemental foods, health care referrals, nutrition education, and breastfeeding promotion and support to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk
Who is eligible?
Pregnant women (through pregnancy and up to 6 weeks after birth or after pregnancy ends)
Breastfeeding women (up to infant’s 1st birthday)
Non-breastfeeding postpartum women (up to 6 months after the birth of an infant or after pregnancy ends)
Infants (up to 1st birthday). WIC serves 45 percent of all infants born in the United States
Children up to their 5th birthday (fathers, grandparents, foster parents or other guardians may apply for WIC for their children)
Must meet WEC income guidelines
What are the benefits?
Individual time to speak with a nutritionist or trained professional about your diet or your child's diet.
Opportunity to meet and talk to other moms with young children.
Referrals to health care and other social service programs.
An eWIC card to buy healthy food for you or your children.