Section 3: INTERVENTION Module 16: Helpful Resources

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Section 3 INTERVENTIONModule 16 Helpful
Resources
Respect AgingPreventing Violence against Older
Persons

• Violence Prevention Initiative

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Agenda

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

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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

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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

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My Important ContactsA tool for those who may be
at risk
Sample section
Emergency Responders and Other Important Contacts Emergency Responders and Other Important Contacts
Police Contact Name Phone Number Date File Number Notes
Shelter/Safe House Shelter Name Contact Name Phone Number Notes
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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.