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Terry B. Rooker President Senior Crimestoppers Program

Protecting Our Nation’s Veterans. Terry B. Rooker President Senior Crimestoppers Program. Brief History of Our Relationship With NASVH. The Senior Crimestoppers program began in 2000 and is administered by the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation, a 501(c) 3 charitable foundation.

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Terry B. Rooker President Senior Crimestoppers Program

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  1. Protecting Our Nation’s Veterans Terry B. Rooker President Senior Crimestoppers Program

  2. Brief History of Our Relationship With NASVH • The Senior Crimestoppers program began in 2000 and is administered by the Senior Housing Crime Prevention Foundation, a 501(c) 3 charitable foundation. • In October of 2008 in conjunction with NASVH, we launched a national initiative to solicit funding (through CRA loans/investments) to provide our programs to all Veterans homes. • Since then, we present this as an opportunity in every bank meeting we attend.

  3. National Veterans Initiative Objective To contact every bank in the United States to help protect the vulnerable, elderly Veterans who bravely gave so much to preserve our freedom.

  4. How Are We Doing That? and Bankers Associations in 38 States

  5. Statistics of the Veterans Initiative • 69 banks participating in the Veterans Initiative • 78 Veterans homes actively involved • 42 have bank funding in place • 36 covered free of charge by SHCPF • 17,000 Veterans covered by the Senior Crimestoppers program • Programs available to ALL Veterans homes regardless of bank participation

  6. How the SHCPF Gets Its Funding • Provide opportunities for banks to get federally mandated CRA credit in areas of • Loan credit • Investment Credit • Service Credit • Use portion of the proceeds from loans and investments to provide programs free of charge to nursing homes, HUD properities and state Veterans homes.

  7. Programs the SHCPF Provides • Senior Crimestoppers (crime prevention) program • Time of Your Life program • Wish Comes True Program

  8. Mission of Senior Crimestoppers To lead in the delivery of crime prevention services and systems to ensure that a zero tolerance to crime atmosphere exists and is vigilantly maintained for the residents, staff, management, and visitors in our nation’s Veteran’s homes that contribute to a better overall quality of life.

  9. What is Senior Crimestoppers? A coordinated group of components designed to work together to reduce and/or prevent the occurrence of incidents of crime in our nation’s Veteran’s homes.

  10. Incidents Covered by the Senior Crimestoppers Program • Fraud • Theft • Vandalism • Abuse • Neglect • Any type of unethical behavior

  11. ProgramComponents • Toll-free, anonymous tips line 24 / 7 / 365 • Rewards up to $1,000.00 • Personal lock boxes (flag/patriotic motif available) • Charter plaque • Yard Signs • Continuing education

  12. Incidents Reduction As of June 30, 2013 95%

  13. Veterans Homes Success Stories Senior Crimestoppers Success Stories • Items Returned (multiple facilities) • Employees Terminated (multiple facilities) • Abuse uncovered • Neglect • Many problems brought to light and fixed

  14. Veterans Homes Success Stories • Wish Comes True Examples • Program available to facilities with bank sponsorship • • Newspapers for residents - TX • • Jukebox - OK • • Memorial Garden - IL • • Tickets to plays – NH • • Christmas parties – PA • Bingo Game Components - TN • Upgraded computers – TN • Transportation to go home for Christmas - SD

  15. What To Do… • Want to get your facility involved? • Want to “re-start” the programs at your facility? • Need help in getting started? • Have questions in general? Call us at 1-800-529-9096 or email us at Terry.Rooker@ SHCPFoundation.org Judy. Holcomb@ Senior Crimestoppers.org

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