Nutrition Services

Wayne County Office of Nutrition Services
Ph: 734-727-7357   -or-   800-851-1454

Thousands of Wayne County senior citizens get a hot meal - often their only one of the day - from this office. Every weekday, 3,000 homebound seniors and 1,800 others who gather at one of the 41 designated nutrition sites receive a nutritionally balanced meal.

Meals are served in three ways:

Congregate Meals, available to seniors 60 years and their spouses, and to physically handicapped persons residing in any senior high-rise where a nutrition site is located;

Home-Delivered Meals for seniors confined to their homes;

Liquid Nutrition Program, available to seniors who are unable to ingest solid food.

Meals must include three ounces of meat, a starch, two 1/2-cup servings of either a fruit or a vegetable, a fat like a pat of butter, a dessert and milk. This office also provides breakfast, hot lunch and snacks to children enrolled in two child-care facilities, including Kidspace in the Wayne County Building. The Emergency Food Assistance Program provides commodity food items to low- income individuals and families.

Operating as a County entity since 1988, the division employs 37 people, mostly cooks and drivers, attracts more than 1,200 volunteers and is mostly funded through State and Federal grants.