Elderwerks Senior Resource Directory 2025/2026

ELDER ABUSE HOTLINES

Illinois Department of Health Nursing Home Hotline 800-252-4343 | 800-547-0466 (TTY) www.idph.state.il.us

Shawnee Alliance for Seniors Shawnee Health Services 6355 Brandhorst Drive

ELDER ABUSE HOTLINES

Adult Protective Services (For seniors and people with disabilities ages 18 to 59) 866-800-1409 | 888-206-1327 (TTY) www.state.il.us/aging After Hours Elder Abuse Hotline IL Department on Aging 421 E. Capital Avenue #100 Springfield, IL 62701 800-279-0400 www.state.il.us/aging AgeOptions (Suburban Cook County) 1048 Lake Street Suite 300 Oak Park, IL 60301-1102 800-699-9043 | 708-383-0258 www.ageoptions.org Chicago Department of Senior Services 312-744-4016 www.cityofchicago.org

Carterville, IL 62918-9802 1-800-642-7773 (National) 618-985-8322 ombudsman@shsdc.org

Senior Help Line (Daytime) IL Department on Aging 421 E. Capital Avenue #100 Springfield, IL 62701

Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union & Williamson Counties.

800-252-8966 | 888-206-1327 (TTY) 312-744-4016 | 312-744-6777 (TTY) www2.illinois.gov/aging Use this line to ask for a well-being check. Supportive Living Facility Complaint Hotline 800-226-0768 (Illinois Dept. of Healthcare & Family Services) Turning Point Domestic Violence Agency P.O. Box 723 Woodstock, IL 60098 815-338-8081 | 800-892-8900 815-338-8081 (TTY) www.mchenrycountyturningpoint.org United States Senate Special Committee on Aging Fraud Hotline 855-303-9470 www.aging.senate.gov/fraud-hotline This Committee is focused on ensuring taxpayers’ money is properly spent on vital programs impacting seniors. Hotline serves as a way to report instances of waste, fraud, and abuse within govern ment programs. The Committee’s investi gators have experience in fraud con cerning retirement savings, identity theft, phone scams, Medicare, Social Security, and a variety of other consumer issues important to seniors and the elderly.

SWAN 120 S. Fair, Suite 2 Olney, IL 62450 1-888-715-6260 (Crisis Line) 618-879-2214 ombudsman@swandvhl.org

ABUSE / EMERGENCY

Crawford, Edwards, Hamilton, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, Wayne & White Counties.

Attorney General Consumer Fraud Hotlines 100 West Randolph Chicago, IL 60601 800-243-5377 800-386-5438 - Chicago

800-243-0618 - Central Illinois 800-243-0607 - Southern Illinois 866-310-8398 - Espanol 800-964-3013 (TTY) ag.state.il.us

Crime Victims Assistance Line 800-228-3368 | 877-398-1130 (TTY)

Crisis Line (24 Hour) Domestic Violence 800-799-7233 (Nationwide)

800-787-3224 (TTY) www.thehotline.org

“ I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn’t get better. You get better. ” Joan Rivers

“ Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it ” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Domestic Violence Hotline 877-863-6338

Identity Theft Hotline 866-999-5630 | 877-844-5461 (TTY)

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