Roadmap Initiative: Enhancing Supports for Older Arkansans who are Victims of Abuse and Financial Exploitation
Project Description:
Overall Purpose
1. Improving collaboration between victim service providers and programs that serve older Arkansans - This project will create a Multidisciplinary Leadership Team and a structure for creating/maintaining ongoing connections to key stakeholders in local regions of the state.
2. Improving direct service provision to older Arkansans who are victims of abuse and financial exploitation - This project will provide direct services and infuse information across agencies involved in service provision to ensure they are trauma-informed, victim-centered, culturally responsive and fully accessible.
3. Improving access to information on abuse and exploitation for victim service providers, programs that serve older Arkansans, and older people themselves - This project will use multiple methods for disseminating information including simple printed information, web-based information, visual representation in community sites, and infusion of information into community-based activities Arkansans already participate in and trust.
Keyword(s):
Abuse, Financial Exploitation
Core Function(s):
Performing Direct and/or Demonstration Services, Developing & Disseminating Information, Continuing Education/Community Training
Area of Emphasis
Quality Assurance, Health-Related Activities
Target Audience:
Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities, Legislators/Policy Makers, General Public
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas, Other
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
