WORKSHOP ON CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES OLDER ADULTS June 9 & - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

WORKSHOP ON CREATING SAFE COMMUNITIES OLDER ADULTS June 9 & 10, 2013 Ulukhaktok, NT

Agenda – Day One (Morning Session) Day One – Sunday, June 9, 2013  Call to Order:  Opening Prayer  Welcome  Introductions  Agenda, Format, Housekeeping  NWT Seniors’ Society & the NWT Network to Prevent Abuse of Older Adults  What is Abuse of Older Adults?  What Does Abuse of Older Adults Look like in Ulukhaktok?  LUNCH  Small Groups report back on what abuse of older adults looks like in Ulukhaktok

Agenda – Day One (Afternoon Session)  Neighbours, Friends and Families, It’s Not Right! presentation  Discussion and Feedback on the It’s Not Right! presentation  Small Group Work on Older Adult Abuse Scenarios  BREAK  A Whole Community Approach to creating a Community Support Network to address abuse of older adults  DVD on Older Adult Abuse – What’s Age Got To Do With It? – Followed by feedback/comments  Wrap-up and closing comments

Agenda – Day Two (Morning Session) Day Two – Monday, June 10, 2013  Review of yesterday’s work  Financial Abuse – Be Aware , Presentation by RCMP  Q & A’S on financial abuse Presentation  Creating a Community Support Network in Ulukhaktok – small group work  Reporting back on a Community Support Network for Ulukhaktok  LUNCH & Priority Setting Exercise

Agenda – Day Two (Afternoon Session)  Developing an Action Plan for each priority – small groups each work on a different priority (Who? What? Where? When? & Why?)  Reporting back on Priority Action Plan for Ulukhaktok  BREAK  Next Steps/Commitments  Closing Remarks/Evaluation

Presentation – NWT Seniors’ Society and the NWT Network to Prevent Abuse of Older Adults Making Connections Symposium Will focus on… December, 2010  Who we are  Past History Related to Older Adult Abuse  The Building Networks & Leading the Way Projects  Establishment of the NWT Network  Terms of Reference  Priorities

What is Abuse of Older Adults? World Health Organization Small Group Task Definition  Discuss and complete A single or repeated act, the Quiz on Elder occurring within any Abuse relationship where there is an expectation  Develop a consensus of trust which causes on what it is harm or distress to an  Report back to the older person. large group

What does Abuse of Older Adults Look like in Ulukhaktok? Examining a Difficult Small Group Work… Issue  Each group will draw a picture of what abuse looks like in this community  Report back to large group explaining what your picture means.

Older Adult Abuse in Ulukhaktok … What does it look like? Each small group will report back to whole group

LUNCH

Neighbours, Friends and Families – It’s Not Right! Presentation Picture of Elders in Focus on… Fort Resolution  It’s A Journey: See it!  Name It!  Check it!   Ageism  What is Abuse of Older Adults?  Who is at Risk?  Who are the Abusers?  Kinds of Abuse  Warning Signs  What can we do as individuals and communities  Questions & Answers

Feedback on It’s Not Right! 1. Questions and Answers on the presentation 2. Small Group work on older adult abuse scenarios 3. Fill out and hand in the Evaluation sheets

A Whole Community Approach to Creating Community Support Networks  Community Support Networks – some things to think about

BREAK

What’s Age Got To Do With It? A video

Closing Comments S E E Y O U T O M O R R O W A t 10:00 A M S H A R P !

Creating Safe Communities for Older Adults Day Two…Good Morning!

Presentation On Financial Abuse – Be Aware! A presentation by the Ulukhaktok RCMP Detachment:  Looking at all forms of Financial Abuse  What are we seeing in Ulukhaktok  Working together to address the issue  Questions and Answers Session

Creating a Community Support Network to Address Abuse of Older Adults in Ulukhaktok Picture from the Making Connections Symposium Small Group Activity December 2010  What would be the work of a Community Support Network in Ulukhaktok?  Who would be involved?

Creating a Community Support Network in Ulukhaktok Small Groups reporting back to whole group Whole Group Discussion NOTE: Picture is of a mini-workshop in Tuktoyaktuk , 2010

Priority Setting  Priority Setting Exercise:  From the list of things that an Ulukhaktok community support network would do, carry out a priority setting exercise where each participant selects priorities from the list of things identified in the small groups.

Developing an Action Plan to Address Identified Priorities Participants at a workshop Small Group Activity in Tuktoyaktuk 2010  Each group will be assigned a priority and asked to begin developing an Action Plan taking into account the following:  Who will take the lead/be involved  What will you do  Where will it take place  When will you do it  Why are you doing this e.g. why is it important? Rational?

Reporting Back on priority work Action Plan for Ulukhaktok Each group will report back on the questions discussed NOTE: The picture is from the Leading the Way workshop in Yellowknife, November 2011.

BREAK

Next Steps and Commitments  Discussion in whole group to outline next steps and commitments  Involvement on the NWT Network

Evaluation & Closing Comments Feedback on this Workshop – please fill out the Evaluation Forms – you should have one in your folder.  Final comments – Whole group  Closing Prayer

That’s All Folks – Thank you!