Resources for Service Providers
One of Project Wisdom's goals has been to create resources for use by seniors' health and social service providers to build individual and system capacity to serve cultrually and linguistically diverse communities, particulary in the context of elder abuse.
The resources created under Project Wisdom and included below are the products of an extensive literature review, consultations with ethnocultural seniors and their families in Guelph, consultations with professionals working in seniors` health and social services, and collaboration with local networks and agencies including the Wellington Seniors Services Network and Translation and Interpretation Program Services (TIPS, Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington).
These resources have been prepared under the assumption that readers/participants already have a basic familiarity with the major issues and current best practices in elder abuse awareness prevention and intervention. In reading through the following sections, think of adding new layers, or ‘lenses’ to what you already know and do.
Download resources created under Phase 1 of Project Wisdom below:
- Training workshops: Below are power point slides used in workshops delivered to seniors' service providers
- Workshop 1: Elder Abuse Through a Cultural Lens (click here to download) (developed and delivered by Ella Henderson, Project Wisdom Coordinator, and Marva Wisdom of Wisdom Consulting)
- Workshop 2: Working with Interpreters (click here to download) (Developed and delivered by Mary Lou Embugh, Translation and Inpterpretation Program Services of Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington. Permission for public access granted)
- Responding to Elder Abuse in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities: A resource for seniors’ service providers in Canada:
- Section 1: Elder Abuse Through a Cultural Lens (click here to download)
- Section 2: Working with Interpreters (click here to download)
**Note: This resource is based on training workshops delivered to seniors service providers; it covers the same topics in more depth and bredth and should be used to enrich the power point presentations included above.
- Building Project Wisdom: A guide for service providers wishing to raise awareness of elder abuse and build capacity to serve seniors from culturally and linguistically diverse communities (click here to download)
- Building Project Wisdom, Appendix A: Suggested project timeline (click here to download)
- Building Project Wisdom, Appendix B: Evaluation Plan (click here to download)
In addition to the those included in the resources above, the following links are recommended for further reading on elder abuse awareness, prevention, and intervention:
- The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) http://www.advocacycentreelderly.org/
- The BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support http://www.bcceas.ca/
- Canadian Centre for Elder Law http://www.bcli.org/ccel
- Help Age International http://www.helpage.org/
- International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA) http://www.inpea.net/
- Ontario Association of Social Workers. Elder Abuse: A Practical Handbook for Service Providers https://www.oasw.org/store/Store/Product.aspx?prodid=3249
- Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (ONPEA) http://www.onpea.org/
- ONPEA Free From Harm toolkit http://www.onpea.org/english/trainingtools/freefromharm.html
