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Violence Prevention Initiative

Respect Aging: Preventing Violence against Older Persons

Train-the-Trainer

April 22, 2015

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Respect Aging

• Education & training project
• Launched March 18, 2014 at Provincial

Stakeholders Conference in St. John’s, NL

• Multi-year collaborative effort through VPI
• Led by Women’s Policy Office with Seniors and

Aging Division, Department of Seniors, Wellness and Social Development

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Goal

• Educate and train various

target audiences in recognizing, preventing and intervening in violence against older persons

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Purpose

• Help service providers and

anyone else who works or lives with older persons to prevent violence against older persons

• To build safer communities

where older persons have access to a supportive environment free of fear, exploitation and violence

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Development of materials

• Input from committees:
• Education and Training Advisory Committee for the

Prevention of Violence Against Older Persons

• Education and Training Advisory Committee for the

Prevention of Violence Against Older Persons in Aboriginal Communities

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Training Manual Modules

Recognition Prevention Intervention

• 1. Types of violence
• 8. Risk factors and protective

factors

• 13. The Violence Prevention

Continuum: A holistic model

• 2. Indicators of violence
• 9. Root causes of violence
• 14. Intervention approaches,

practices and supportive legislation

• 3. Violence against older persons

in residential care facilities

• 10. Self-understanding for

violence prevention

• 15. Barriers and risk in reporting

violence

• 4. Gender dynamics of violence

against older persons

• 11. Safety planning
• 16. Helpful resources
• 5. Diversity, ageism and violence
• 12. Self-care for violence

prevention helpers

• 6. Dynamics of family violence
• 7. Impact and effects of violence

against older persons

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Training Materials

• Website – www.respectaging.ca
• Participant Manual
• Trainer’s Guide

(1.5 hour sessions)

• Trainer’s Guide

(3 hour sessions)

• PowerPoint presentations

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About the content

• Language of “violence against older persons”
• Violence occurs across the lifespan
• Ageism
• Cultural perspective
• 3 areas of focus
• Recognition
• Prevention
• Intervention

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About the content

• Stories from the Front Lines
• Definitions
• Links
• Activities and handouts

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Who should participate in training?

• Anyone who interacts with older persons, and older

person themselves

• Useful for:

Caregiver for an older person Health care professional Community leader Justice/law enforcement Community worker Neighbour of an older person Family member of an older person Older person Financial service provider Service provider Friend of an older person Volunteer Government employee Youth

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Training

• Trainers to offer training at least once per year
• Options: full program in 3.5 days, afternoon/morning

session, lunch-n-learn, etc.

• Sessions offered must be tracked/reported to Nancy:
• Number of participants
• Location (city/town)
• Module # completed
• Participant evaluation forms
• Date session was completed
• Trainer evaluation forms

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Module 11: Safety planning

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Safety planning…

• Is a process in which an older person and a

trusted helper work together to ensure the older person’s safety in advance of any crisis.

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• 1. Prevention
• Preventing future violence
• 2. Protection
• Looking at ways to protect yourself during a violent incident
• 3. Notification
• Planning ahead for ways to get help
• 4. Referral
• Finding services that can help
• 5. Emotional support
• Finding support and ways to become less isolated

Five strategies for safety planning

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Matthew’s Story

• Matthew, 65, has a developmental delay. He lived with his

mother until she died last year. He then lived on his own in the family home with the help of neighbours. Recently, his younger brother Phil was released from jail and moved in with

• him. Phil has a drug problem. Phil has been taking all of

Matthew’s money. He has been physically and emotionally

• abusive. Matthew now wanders the streets asking for money

and food. The neighbours do not come by anymore because they are afraid of Phil.

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What you can do as a helper…

• Build rapport and listen actively
• Learn the fears of the older person and the

possible result of threats

• Ask what the older person wants to do, and why
• Learn about the motivation of decisions
• Suggest options
• Brainstorm together

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What not to do as a helper…

• Tell the older person what to do
• Make referrals
• Impose your values
• Talk to the perpetrator
• Recommend risky strategies
• Blame the older person for not following the safety

plan

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Planning for your own safety

Before you go:

• Call ahead
• Cell phone
• Inform others
• Don’t go alone
• Know the area
• Carry only what you

need During a visit:

• Do not enter if uneasy
• Ask driver to wait
• Give cell number to

driver

• Stay near exit door
• Check for weapons
• Leave if threatened

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Nancy Allen Provincial Training Coordinator Violence Prevention Initiative, Women’s Policy Office Government of Newfoundland and Labrador nancyallen@gov.nl.ca (709) 729-3867