Description:
Older Adults and service providers to older adults meet monthly (except in the summer) to share information, develop and distribute/facilitate educational information, and address the abuse of older adults in their community.
Network Events/Projects:
Have developed and are distributing a brochure describing elder abuse and who to contact for assistance – Education committee members have participated in a train-the-trainer workshop facilitated by the Regional Consultant in order to learn how to facilitate the (ONPEA) Basic I and Basic II Power Point presentations – A survey of local Lawyers is being conducted in an attempt to identify how many Lawyers have been contacted to assist in cases of the abuse of older adults.
Haliburton Kawartha Lakes
Haliburton Kawartha Lakes Elder Abuse Prevention Committee
Pat Scarborough, Network Secretary
c/o Community Care City of Kawartha Lakes
Local Program Manager
71 Bolton St. Unit D
Bobcaygeon, ON
K0M 1A0 Ph: 705-738-5300 Fax: 705-738-1050 Email: pscarborough@community-care.on.ca
Mission:
To promote community participation in a network designed to increase awareness of the issues and to increase knowledge about resources with the aim of prevention and intervention of elder abuse.
Goal:
To promote the prevention of elder abuse through education and awareness, and to assist the public to identify the signs and symptoms of abuse.
Objectives:
To promote the community services available to seniors, their families and the general public.
To promote access to information regarding contact agencies, and individuals through a variety of methods, i.e. a service delivery.
To provide a forum for members to meet, identify issues and problem solve together across all the sectors.
Muskoka
Muskoka Network Against Elder Abuse Karen Boyer Executive Director, Caregivers' Voice Muskoka/Parry Sound Coordinator, Muskoka Network Against Elder Abuse P.O. Box 156 Bracebridge, ON P1L 1T6 Ph: 705-646-7677 or 1-800-777-2205 Fax: 705-646-2579
Description:
Older adults and service providers to older adults meet bi-monthly (except in the summer).
The Networks Mission Statement is
to promote non-judgemental understanding and awareness of elder abuse in our community and to provide interventions and choices.
The Network has created a Community Response to address the abuse of older adults in their community and Network members provide information and support to people who are addressing instances of abuse.
Web site available with a number that service providers or the public can call for information. They provide education on the issue of the abuse of older adults to the public and service providers.
Northumberland Northumberland Elder Abuse Response Network Sherry Gibson, Network Secretary Community Care Port Hope 74 Queen Street, Unit J Port Hope, ON L1A 2Y9 Ph: 905-885-9860 Email: s.gibson@commcare.ca Web: www.northumberlandcounty.ca
Our Mandate:
Northumberland Elder Abuse Response Network (NEARN) was created in the Spring of 2006 to facilitate the planning and coordination of services related to elder abuse prevention in Northumberland County and to provide education and awareness about Elder Abuse in the community. Volunteer members of NEARN reflect the diverse geographic areas of Northumberland County as well as health, social services, justice, ethno culture, seniors, housing, faith, education sectors, First Nations and individuals concerned about the issue of Elder Abuse. Northumberland Elder Abuse Response Network is committed to working toward creating a safe community for older adults - the kind of community that we want to grow up in - and to grow old in.
Activities:
Provide a forum for members of the community to meet, discuss and develop strategies, protocols, standards and procedures relating to the prevention of elder abuse
Plan and coordinate educational activities relating to the prevention of elder abuse
Reach out to a broad spectrum of the community to increase awareness and promote the prevention of elder abuse
Create linkages and partnerships with Regional, Provincial and National committees to promote and facilitate the coordination of activities relating to the prevention of elder abuse
Assist communities to access resources relating to the prevention of elder abuse
Peterborough Abuse Prevention of Older Adults Network of Peterborough County and City Chair, Sandy May c/o Alzheimer Society 183 Simcoe Street Peterborough, ON K9H 2H6 Ph: 748-5131 Web: www.olderadultabuse.com
Area Served: Peterborough (City and County)
Description:
Older adults and service providers to older adults meet monthly (except in the summer) – the Network has created a Co-ordinated Community Response to address the abuse of older adults in their community (see the Manual on their Web Site) and have developed an Interdisciplinary Team to address individual cases of abuse. They have a Web Site and a number that service providers or the public can call for information. They provide education on the issue of the abuse of older adults to the public and service providers. They are further developing their co-ordination of volunteers (2005)
Simcoe county Prevention of Senior Abuse Network - Simcoe County Chair - Inga Thompson, Occupational Therapist Reg (Ont) Royal Victoria Hospital 201 Georgian Drive Barrie, ON L4M 6M2 Ph: 705-728-9090 x 47271 E-mail: thompsonin@rvh.on.ca Web:
www.dementianetworksc.org
Area Served: Simcoe County
Description:
Older adults and service providers to older adults meet regularly. The Committee has developed the products listed below and from time-to-time offer educational workshops on the issue(s) of the abuse of older adults and/or seniors’ safety
Have developed and distributed a bookmark that describes the abuse of older adults and supplies contact information regarding service providers that could assist an abused person
Offer workshops on the abuse of older adults and seniors’ safety
York Prevention of Elder Abuse Committee of York Region c/o Community Care Access Centre Miriam Snider-Petry (Chair) 9050 Yonge St Richmond Hill, ON L4C 9S6 Ph: 905-763-9928, x4255 Fax: 905-952-2417 Email: ms_p05@msn.com
Areas Served: York Region
Description:
YorkService provider representatives to older adults meet quarterly. They have developed a brochure that defines the abuse of older adults, the forms that that abuse can take, and where to find assistance for someone who is being abused, or who is being abused. (To date this brochure is available in four languages, reflecting the languages that are spoken in the Region.)
Received New Horizon funding to allow them to increase the prevention of elder abuse by providing knowledge to seniors regarding what elder abuse is, and where to access assistance. Committee membersl train older adults to co-facilitate educational session to older adults in their community.
If you are experiencing elder abuse, or know someone who is, then please call the Victim Support Line
(8am-10pm, 7 days/week) Toronto: (416) 314-2447; Toll-free: 1-888-579-2888. Emergencies: Call 911
