Response to Elder Abuse: A Self-Assessment Workbook Series
This set of self-assessment tools is meant to assist communities in evaluating practices within and across key intervening agencies and in building a coordinated response to elder abuse.
Preventing and responding to domestic and sexual violence in later life
By focusing specifically on domestic and sexual violence (DV/SV) in later life, these resource materials highlight the complexities of older adults’ DV/SV experiences and emphasize collaborative and multi-pronged approaches to addressing DV/SV in later life.
Caregiving Chronicles: Lived Experiences and Life Edits
This webinar includes insights from acclaimed journalists and caregivers who are amplifying the voices and experiences of caregivers, discover how practitioners can better integrate culturally sensitive and responsive approaches to support caregivers, and learn how to recognize signs of elder mistreatment.
Collaborating for Justice for Older African Americans: A Guide
The aim of this guide is to equip multidisciplinary elder justice partners to build stronger and more equitable collaborations with African American community-based and culturally-specific programs. This guide offers strategies to promote elder justice in culturally-specific ways.
Trauma-Informed Practices to Address Abuse and Build Resilience
This panel webinar will discuss the cumulative and complex trauma histories of diverse older adults, how trauma relates to elder abuse, and strategies to provide culturally responsive and trauma-informed support.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health
This month, we created a complication of recent resources and trainings centered around mental health, including how to talk about it, how to support family members and advocates, and how it is sometimes seen intersecting in our work.
Resources for Families Coping with Mental and Substance Use Disorders
Being able to offer support, family members can connect those in need with treatment, resources, and services to begin and stay on their recovery journey. This resource holds resources for family members around how to start the conversation about mental illness and substance use, including videos, talk sheets, and more.
Family Members and Caregivers: Mental Health
This resource collection from NAMI addresses topics relevant to family members and caregivers of those who experience mental illness, including resources around supporting that family member and maintaining the relationship, taking care of yourself, crisis prevention, and additional support.
Let’s Talk: Confronting Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community
In this episode, National Runaway Safeline discusses the stigma surrounding mental health within the Black community, the emotional toll of code-switching, and the personal journeys of Amea Smith and Antonio Davis-Robinson.
How can advocates better support survivors within marginalized communities in addressing their mental health needs?
Recommendations and tangible resources to help advocates in the gender-based violence movement better support survivors within marginalized communities in addressing their mental health needs.