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Welcome to our November e-Newsletter!
This month's issue, highlights several significant themes and events, which continue to raise awareness of key issues affecting older adults: Financial Literacy Month, 16 Days of Activism Against GBV, National Senior Safety Week and Giving Tuesday❤️.
This month, in recognition of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, EAPO co-hosted a Gender-Based Violence Symposium in collaboration with the Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (CNPEA), and WomanACT to not only raise awareness but as a call to take action against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and bring about positive changes.
Like elder abuse, gender-based violence is a complex, pervasive, multi-faceted issue, often with deadly consequences. We encourage everyone to educate themselves about GBV – to recognize it, prevent it and most importantly know what actions we can all take, applying them in our daily lives – to call out the violence directed against women, girls, 2SLGBTQI+ individuals. Please take the time to review the resources being shared here today, view the recorded sessions from the Symposium to fully understand the extent of the problem and most importantly learn how best to support an older woman who may be at-risk or experiencing violence and abuse.
If you are looking for other ways to be involved, playing YOUR part in the prevention of elder abuse, consider volunteering with a local Elder Abuse Prevention Network, or support our 2023 GivingTuesday campaign by making a donation. Every action, no matter how small, helps us makes a difference.
We continue to build on our vision, that ALL seniors in Ontario live free from abuse, have a strong voice and are safe and respected.
We look forward to our continued collaborations with each of you, our subscribers, community partners and the countless volunteers we engage with each day, to create stronger, interconnected, vibrant and safer communities for all seniors in Ontario!
Marta Hajek,
CEO
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Risk Assessment Training Workshop: HOPE Tool | |
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EAPO in collaboration with Dr. Jennifer Storey, a Forensic Psychologist specializing in violence risk assessment and interpersonal violence and author of HOPE, is pleased to host another 3 day virtual training (Feb 5, 6, & 8, 2024) for service providers on the use the Harm to Older Persons Evaluation (HOPE) tool.
Dr. Storey, will facilitate engaging and interactive training sessions for front-line providers to enhance their skills in assessing risk of older adults and their perpetrators, as well as empower providers, by building their capacity for response, intervention and management planning, when supporting older adults at-risk or experiencing elder abuse.
Feb 5, & 6, 2024 9am - 12pm (EST)
Feb 8, 2024 9am - 1pm
Early Bird Price: $199
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Jan.18, 2024 from 1pm - 2:30 pm
Implementing the Seniors’ Anti-Bullying Toolkit in Seniors’ Residences
Using the results from the Seniors Bullying in Ontario Survey, formal feedback from stakeholders, and existing best practices, a Seniors’ Anti-bullying Toolkit was created.
This toolkit is modular, and includes strategies and activities to prevent and address bullying behaviours and create a positive environment. Sheridan College and EAPO are currently implementing this Toolkit in seniors’ residences. Together with the residents and staff at these sites, many lessons are being learned.
This webinar will present on the strategies being implemented from the toolkit, and how they are being modified and built upon.
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Jan. 23, 2024 from 1pm - 2:30 pm
2 Sided Mirror 2024 - Mixed Theatre Company
Join EAPO and the Mixed Company Theatre for an interactive, role-playing based event about navigating a loved one’s life-threatening illness, and supporting older adults through depression and suicidal ideation. Reality based scenarios focus on how to support loved ones through major health related choices and the mental health impacts illnesses can have on everyone involved.
REGISTRATION IS LIMITED SO SIGN UP EARLY!
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Financial Literacy Month 2023
November is Financial Literacy Month and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) continutes its engagement with Canadians and works together with organizations from the private, public, and non-profit sectors to help strengthen the financial literacy of individuals and families and build their financial resilience.
Continue reading here
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National Senior Safety Week 2023
November 6-12 is National Senior Safety Week in Canada, an initiative of the Canada Safety Council (CSC). As part of its mandate to keep mature Canadians healthy, independent and safe, the CSC raises awareness on a series of topics of concern to seniors, including fall prevention, drug safety, elder abuse and driving.
Continue reading here
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New Elder Abuse Reports and Resources | |
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Tips and Tools for Providing Culturally Competent and Responsive Care to Older People who Experience Abuse
Culture often impacts our definitions, perceptions of, and responses to mistreatment. It also influences our willingness to report harm and ability to seek and access appropriate assistance in the aftermath of abuse.
Culturally competent and responsive engagement is essential to meet the unique needs of our diverse older population and are critical to abuse prevention, harm reduction, and meaningful intervention.
Read the report here
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Every Voice Counts:
Long-Term Care Resident and Visitor Survey Results 2023
BC Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie has released findings from the second province wide survey of thousands of long-term care residents and their family members.
Download Full report here
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UN Decade of Healthy Ageing Progress Report, 2021-2023
Explore what progress has been made to transform the world to be a better place to grow older.
Download Full report here
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Gender-based Violence Month | |
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The Government of Canada’s theme for 2023 is Listen. Learn. Act.
It addresses the key steps to tackling gender-based violence (GBV). LISTEN refers to supporting survivors who share their experience, and to the experts that work on the frontlines. LEARN encourages us to educate ourselves on what GBV is, how to spot it, and how we can prevent it and take action. ACT is for taking the information and applying it in our daily lives. Read more here
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The National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence aims to:
- Engage all people in Canada in changing the social norms, attitudes, and behaviours that contribute to GBV
- Address the social and economic factors that contribute to GBV
- Set out a framework for anyone facing GBV to have reliable and timely access to culturally appropriate and accessible protection and services
- Improve the health, social, economic, and justice outcomes of those impacted by GBV
Read full plan here
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UNiTE! Invest to Prevent Violence Against Women & Girls! #No Excuse
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women will mark the launch of the UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December).
This 2023 campaign, Invest to Prevent Violence against Women & Girls, will call on citizens to show how much they care about ending violence against women and girls and call on governments worldwide to share how they are investing in gender-based violence prevention. Join the global movement with the #NoExcuse slogan calling for urgent investments to prevent violence against women and girls.
Read more here
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GENDER-RELATED KILLINGS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS (FEMICIDE/FEMINICIDE): Global estimates of female intimate partner/family-related homicides in 2022
This is the second joint UNODC and UN Women global research brief on the gender-related killings of women and girls. The risks of gender-based violence and femicide are only rising as our world is engulfed in conflict, humanitarian emergencies, environmental and economic crises and displacement. Global action is needed, most of all, to stop the violence from occurring in the first place.
Read the report here
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OAITH’s Monthly Femicide Report
During Women Abuse Prevention Month, OAITH shared reports from their annual ‘Wrapped in Courage Campaign’, to bring attention to and advocate for the prioritization of prevention of gender-based violence and femicide in Ontario.
Review Monthly Femicide Reports here:
English: http://bit.ly/October2023Femicide
French: http://bit.ly/octobre2023Femicide
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Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses 2022-2023 Annual Femicide List
Over the last 52 weeks, there have been 62 women and children killed in Ontario. OAITH 2022-2023 Annual Femicide List illustrates a year of system failure.
- The youngest femicide victim was 6 years old and the oldest femicide victim, this year, was 90 years old.
- 22.6% of femicide victims were over the age of 55.
- Femicide victims were killed in a rural or small population center.
Read the Press Release here Learn the Femicide List here
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November is national Financial Literacy Month in Canada – a time when organizations make a special effort to remind Canadians about the tools and resources available to them, often for free, to help strengthen your financial skills.
Protect your money, see resources from Canadian Bankers Association (CBA)to guard against the rising threat of frauds and scams.
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CBA’s Your Money Seniors program offers three free modules – Cash Management in Retirement, Fraud Prevention, and Financial Abuse to help older adults stay financially resilient.
Seniors groups across Canada can request a seminar, in English or French, through virtual or in‑person delivery, on our website.
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CBA’s Fraud Prevention Toolkit for Older Adults, created in collaboration with the Government of Canada’s Get Cyber Safe campaign, includes a fraud prevention checklist and tips to avoid phone fraud.
The toolkit also provides recommendations on how to choose strong passwords and offers information on how to recognize and prevent financial abuse.
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Bringing Financial Literacy to Indigenous Community Housing Residents.
Georgian Bay Native Women’s Association aims to preserve and promote Anishinaabe culture, language and heritage. The organization offers 22 different programs, and recently signed up to run Money Matters for Indigenous Peoples. This program contains the same core themes as the original Money Matters program, but also includes additional information and design elements to reflect the realities of Indigenous communities in Canada.
Learn more here
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BULLETIN: FINANCIAL LITERACY MONTH - QR CODE FRAUD | |
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Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre tip for Financial Literacy Month
The CAFC is receiving reports of fraudsters using QR codes in various scams to steal your personal information and/or money. Similar to fraudulent links or URLs, QR codes can be inserted into emails and texts to direct potential victims to fraudulent or malicious websites.
Read more here
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Seeking Participants for Study on Dementia | |
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This study, funded by the Alzheimer Society Research Program, focuses on how ideas of capacity, consent, and decision-making affect people facing dementia who are “going it alone” and non-family, non-friend others who become involved in representing them as substitute decision-makers.
Currently interviewing eligible participants in Ontario and Alberta. Read more about the study here
To participate or for more information, please contact Dr. Celeste Pang: ncpang@mtroyal.ca
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Upcoming Webinars & Conferences
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Elder Abuse Prevention Ontario | www.eapon.ca | 416-916-6728 |
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