Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns - Participant Handouts (PDF)
This is the participant handout for the Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns training. This handout is intended to help participants enhance the skills needed to create a safety plan with older victims and adults with disabilities. Participants will also learn about other resources available from a variety of systems in their community. Likewise, participants will begin to identify service gaps. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to build or enhance working relationships with professionals from other disciplines in their community.
Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns - Power Point (PDF)
This is the power point presentation for the Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns training. This powerpoint is intended to help participants enhance the skills needed to create a safety plan with older victims and adults with disabilities. Participants will also learn about other resources available from a variety of systems in their community. Likewise, participants will begin to identify service gaps. Additionally, participants will have the opportunity to build or enhance working relationships with professionals from other disciplines in their community.
Anticipate: Identifying Victim Strengths and Planning for Safety Concerns - Training Guide (PDF)
This training module was created by the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), a project of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV). The purpose of the training is to enhance the safety planning skills of professionals who work with older victims and/or people with disabilities.
Before You Start (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this document is a checklist for service providers reaching out to faith-based organizations regarding elder abuse.
Bookmark (PDF)
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this bookmark contains information about elder abuse, information to get immediate help, and information to get further information about elder abuse.
Brochure, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse” (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this brochure addresses the following questions: What is elder abuse? Who are the abusers? What are possible “red flags” to look for? I’m part of a faith community. How can I help?. It also provides information on hotlines and referrals.
Developing Services for Older Abused Women: A Guide for Domestic Abuse Programs
This packet provides information on developing services for older abused women in an existing domestic abuse program.
Elder Abuse and Faith: A Guide for Service Providers on Reaching Out to Faith-Based Organizations Regarding Elder Abuse
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this document lists some of the outreach challenges that service providers may encounter, and some possible strategies for overcoming these challenges. The toolkit contains resources that will help service providers reach out to and collaborate with local faith communities.
Elder Abuse in Tribal Communities
This document provides an overview and resources on elder abuse in tribal communities.
Golden Voices: Support Groups for Older Abused Women (PDF)
"The purpose of this manual is to help professionals create or enhance a support group for older abused women."
Interactive Training Exercises on Abuse in Later Life (PDF)
Skilled trainers need a variety of tools to impart information. To that end, WCADV has developed a curriculum development process to create interactive exercises on a variety of topics. This manual will provide directions for 16 exercises focusing on several key training points for multiple target audiences such as professionals from domestic violence/sexual assault, elder abuse/adult protective services, aging, health care, justice and others and give ideas of exercises that trainers can adapt to meet the needs of many audiences.
Introductory Letter to Service Providers and Advocates (PDF (color))
This letter provides service providers and advocates with an overview of the toolkit, "Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”.
Mandatory Reporting of Elder Abuse: Implications for Domestic Violence Advocates (PDF)
This issue paper is designed to assist domestic violence advocates in finding the necessary information to engage in critical analysis of how to provide safety and women- defined or victim centered advocacy in an environment of mandatory reporting of elder abuse.
National Domestic Abuse in Later Life Resource Directory (PDF)
This is a state based directory of resources that are focused on abuse in later life.
Sample letter from Service Providers and Advocates to Faith Communities (PDF)
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse,” this is a sample letter that can be used by Service Providers and Advocates to Faith Communities.
The First Visit (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this document is a checklist for the first visit for service providers reaching out to faith-based organizations regarding elder abuse.
Undue Influence: The Criminal Justice Response - Power Point (PDF)
This is the power point presentation for the Undue Influence training for law enforcement officers.
Undue Influence: The Criminal Justice Response - Trainer Materials (PDF)
This is a training curriculum that can be used "to explore the parallels between UI and domestic violence, stalking, and grooming so that law enforcement officers can better understand the dynamics of some financial exploitation cases and implement effective investigative strategies."
Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse (PDF (color))
As a part of the toolkit, “Where Faith and Safety Meet: Faith Communities Respond to Elder Abuse”, this booklet is designed especially for faith leaders and for anyone who participates in a faith community or congregation. While anyone can be the victim of abuse, older adults often keep personal matters private and may not know where to go for help. The goal of this resource is to provide information that will allow you to: recognize the signs of elder abuse, offer support and information to victims, and know where to turn for assistance.