If you need assistance getting food for your family, local schools and organizations are ready to help. Families with children in Ypsilanti Community Schools may make use of a hotline for help. Click here for more information.
Click on any heading below to see how you can get help accessing free food, plus tips for safe shopping and menu planning.
Free Food
Ypsilanti Community Schools Food Distribution
Ypsilanti Community Schools is a variety of food options for students and families at no charge.
Breakfast & lunch distribution for students:
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Grab & Go Food Delivery
Ypsilanti Community Schools provides Grab and Go Food Delivery on Fridays beginning October 9th through December 2020*. Families can go to a bus route nearest their home to pick up 7 days worth of breakfast and lunch for each student in their household. Food distribution sites will still remain at ACCE, Erickson, Holmes, Perry at YCHS. All sites are free for any child under the age of 18 or under 26 with special needs.
Lincoln Consolidated Schools Food Distribution
Meal distribution happens Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10a-1p behind Lincoln High School in the bus loop. On Mondays and Wednesdays, families receive two days of meals. On Fridays, they receive three days.
Families in need of meals who do not have transportation, can call an emergency food hotline at 484-7072 before 10 am.
Other Food Distributions
- Food Gatherers has a list of food pantries and meal distribution locations on their website.
- A.E. City of Hope Food Pantry, in partnership with Food Gatherers, hosts a weekly food distribution at the old Ypsilanti Middle School. Click here for more information.
- Hope Clinic has groceries available every day as well as meals 5 days a week, pantry & produce appointments, baby items and free laundry services. They also offer free mental health, medical care and dental care to uninsured. For more information visit https://thehopeclinic.org/food-1.
- Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels: Making food deliveries to people with a medical need and may not receive immediate deliveries due to high volume of requests.
- Ypsilanti Senior Center distributes frozen meals and shelf-stable foods to adults ages 60 and up. Suggested donation is $3 per meal. Call 734-483-5014 or email [email protected] to enroll in this program.
- Free outdoor community food pantries are available in Ypsilanti at 315 N. River Street and 1209 South Congress.
For a Google Calendar of food distributions throughout Washtenaw County, click here.
SNAP & EBT Food Assistance
Information about extra food assistance benefits for families with kids who receive free & reduced-cost meals at school can be found here or by clicking the flyer to the right.
Tips for Shopping & Cooking
This resource from the United States Department of Agriculture offers some tips and practices on preparing a list, planning your menus and simple recipes
Check out this video from a West Michigan doctor about how to safely bring groceries into your home: