MOBILE SENIOR SAFETY FAIRS 

 

Seniors and caregivers, please join us for our next Mobile Senior Safety Fair. The State's Attorney's Office Mobile Senior Safety Fairs will be held in every community throughout Kankakee County over the coming months, and will address senior scams and crime prevention, share information about current events, volunteer opportunities, community programming and resources. “Seniors are still our most-targeted population for financial scams; today’s scams are sophisticated and accomplished thru email, senior dating sites, text messages, online devices and more. We need to do everything we can to help seniors identify and avoid these scams. At the same time, our seniors are the proven best resource for ideas, life experience, mentors and service – we look forward to engaging with them in finding solutions to the problems in our community and partnering with them on local service projects. This is going to be a win-win partnership for seniors and our entire community”, said State’s Attorney Jim Rowe.

The State’s Attorney’s Office has offered Mobile Senior Safety Fairs throughout Kankakee County since 2019, kicking off their first event in Herscher, Illinois on October 4, 2022. This was the first Mobile Fair hosted by the State's Attorney's Office since the pandemic began in early 2020. Our Mobile Senior Safety Fairs deliver vital information and resources to our seniors and their caregivers, all within their own neighborhood. The Senior Safety Fair on October 4, 2022 was hosted at Courtyard Estates of Herscher, in partnership with County Board Member Carol Webber and Herscher Chief of Police Chad Scanlon. 

Questions regarding the above information can be directed to the State’s Attorney’s Community Division's Program Specialist, Taylor Vilt, at tvilt@k3county.net or (815)216-0779.