Get your child vaccinated ahead of school at these DeKalb County mobile vaccine clinics

DeKalb County area schoolchildren will have the opportunity to grab their back-to-school immunizations at a mobile vaccine clinic offered in Genoa Saturday and in Sandwich later this month.

The DeKalb County Health Department is offering the Back-to-School Mobile Vaccine Clinic as a chance for parents or guardians to get their children up-to-date vaccines in a convenient location. The clinic also will offer COVID-19 vaccinations.

Pre-registration is required for the clinic. Appointments can be made by calling 815-748-2460.

Those who can't made the mobile clinics can make appointments five days per week at the health department, 2550 N. Annie Glidden Road in DeKalb, by calling 815-748-2460 for more information.

The first mobile vaccine clinic be offered from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Walnut Street Daycare Center, 201 Walnut St., in Genoa.

The second will be offered from 1 to 4 p.m. Aug. 9 at Prairie View Elementary School, 1201 Castle St., in Sandwich. At the Sandwich clinic, a nutritionist also will be on site to perform demonstrations of health lunch ideas for children, health officials said.

Staff also will be on hand to provide information on healthcare enrollment, tobacco cessation and solid waste and recycling.

School immunizations are required for kindergarteners, students in sixth grade, and 16-year-olds, according to the health department.

Parents or guardians are asked to being their ID and a health insurance card for those who have health insurance.

Cash, check, Medicaid and most PPO plans are accepted, according to the health department. Uninsured children will not be turned away due to the inability to pay for required childhood immunizations, according to the health department.

Low-cost vaccinations are also available through the health department's Vaccines for Children Program.