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Preventing Violence Against Older Persons: Essential Resources

Access helpful resources including crisis lines, provincial and national contacts, and regional initiatives from the Violence Prevention Initiative to combat violence against older individuals. Suitable for service providers, victims, and those at risk of violence.

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Preventing Violence Against Older Persons: Essential Resources

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  1. Section 3: INTERVENTIONModule 16:Helpful Resources Respect Aging:Preventing Violence against Older Persons Violence Prevention Initiative

  2. Agenda • Welcome • Learning together: • Helpful Resources • Small group activity • Reporting back to whole group • Wrap-up / Evaluation

  3. Helpful Resources • 24-hour crisis lines • Provincial resources, including • Key contacts in regional health authorities • Director of Neglected Adults • Violence Prevention Initiative • Regional resources • Organized according to regions served by VPI Regional Coordinating Committees against violence • National resources • Federal government

  4. Helpful for Whom? • Service provider to older victims of violence • An older person who is a victim of violence • An older person at risk of violence • A perpetrator of violence • Someone with the potential to become violent • Anybody concerned about someone in any of the above situations

  5. My Important ContactsA tool for those who may be at risk Sample section

  6. Links • The last section of the Manual is called Links. • Provides a list of Internet resources (website addresses). • Further exploration of the topics covered in the Respect Aging Training Program.

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