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    Queen Anne's County Health Department
    Community Health

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    Upper Shore WIC

    Check out the Mobile ​WIC Schedule​!
    ​Beginning September 2021!

    ​WIC is a federally funded program that provides healthy foods and nutrition counseling to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under five.
    • Women in the program eat better and have healthier babies.
    • Babies born to WIC mothers weigh more and develop more successfully
    • Children participating in WIC eat nutritious foods high in iron and vitamin C. This helps build strong minds and bodies

    ARE YOU ELIGIBLE? Click Here!

    WIC Participants Learn How To:

    • Use foods to improve your family's health.
    • Get information on healthy lifestyles for pregnant women
    • Breastfeed successfully
    • Help your children learn to eat healthy foods
    • Use your WIC checks to buy food at the grocery store
    • Obtain health and social services

    If eligible you will receive nutrition information, referrals to other services, and checks to buy food

    Approved foods include:

    • Milk
    • 100% Juice
    • Peanut Butter
    • Cheese
    • Eggs
    • Dried beans and peas
    • Cereal
    • Whole grain breads
    • Fresh fruits and vegetables

     
    In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.

     
    Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g. Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.), should contact the Agency (State or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.
     
    To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, (AD-3027) found online at: http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:
     
    (1) mail:   U.S. Department of Agriculture
                    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
                    Policy and Procedure 7.00 Page 3 of 5
                    1400 Independence Avenue, SW
                    Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;
     
    (2) fax:     (202) 690-7442; or
     
     
    This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

    Queen Anne's WIC Offices

    Mobile WI​C Schedule

    Centreville WIC Office​

    ​206 N. Commerce St. Centreville, MD 21617
    Phone: 443-262-4423
    For directions click here.

     

    Kent County WIC Office

    Chestertown WIC Office
    151 Dixon Drive Suite 2 Chestertown, MD 21620
    Phone: 443-262-4423
    For directions click here.

    Mailing address for all locations
    206 N. Commerce St. Centreville, MD 21617

    ​Email: uppershore.wic@maryland.gov

    Fax: 443-262-9356​​