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Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, June 15, 2008
Please let us know what is happening in your community, your organization to recognize abuse and neglect of older adults for the second annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (June 15, 2008). Click here for the Day's objectives. We would be happy to add your events and activities to the momentum rapidly building across Canada, and will update this site weekly. Let us know the event, time, date, contact person, and description of the event.
What Can I Do? In addition to group efforts such as these events, individuals concerned about abuse and neglect of older adults are showing their support in many ways. Service providers may decide to write special articles on an aspect of abuse or neglect in later life that they see in their work. Grandparents may talk with their grandchildren about aging and how to show respect for all generations. Concerned citizens may write letters to the editor or ask their newspaper to carry a special feature on the issues. Show your support for improving the lives of older adults who are experiencing (or are at risk of) abuse or neglect. ~~~ Click on the links below to find out about events and activities in your jurisdiction. We would like to thank the people and organizations that have volunteered to take on the role of liaison/ contact person in their province or territory for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day related activities. These volunteers help us let people in your region and other parts of Canada know what is happening. Please help them by keeping them up to date.
If you are looking for ideas, the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse has prepared a community guide and toolkit with a variety of suggestions. See: community_guide_1-20-06.pdf
Across the Country (Click on link to jump to jurisdiction)
BACKGROUND: June 15, 2006 was the debut of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). The day is in support of the United Nations International Plan of Action which recognizes the significance of abuse and neglect of older adults as a public health and human rights issue. Throughout the world, senior abuse and neglect is largely under-recognized or treated as an unspoken problem. Research indicates that public education campaigns like World Elder Abuse Awareness Day are vital for informing people in a growing number of countries about elder abuse and active involvement of the media is central to its success.
If you know of any events planned in your community, please let your provincial liaison (contact person) know, so we can post it here. Liaison: Treena Schmidt. Edmonton Elder Abuse Intervention Team. Email: Treena.Schmidt@edmonton.ca
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If you know of any events planned in your community, please let your provincial liaison know, so we can post it here. Liaison: Alison Leaney, BC Community Response Network Foundation, edcrns@telus.net Or Charmaine Spencer, cspencer@shaw.ca
If you know of any events planned in your community, please let your provincial liaison (contact person) know, so we can post it here.
Liaison: Susan Crichton, Elder Abuse Consultant, Manitoba Seniors and Healthy Aging Secretariat. Email: Susan.Crichton@gov.mb.ca Manitoba will be keeping information of their activities on a calendar on their web-site at www.gov.mb.ca/shas/awarenessday/index.html
If you know of events planned in your community in New Brunswick, please let your province's liaison (contact person) know, so we can post it here. Liaison: Jo-Ann Fellows, President, Third Age Centre, phone: 506-452-0526. Email: 3rdage@stu.ca Website: www.stu.ca/research/3rdage/
The province launched its senior abuse awareness campaign!
If you know of any events planned in your community in Newfoundland and Labrador, please let your provincial liaison (contact person) know, so we can post it here. Liaisons: Rosemary Lester, Seniors Resource Centre, St. John’s (on behalf of the Interagency Elder Abuse Committee) Email: info@seniorsresource.ca
If you know of any events planned in your community, please let your provincial liaison (contact person) know, so we can post it here. Liaison: Barb Hood, Executive Director, NWT Seniors' Society - seniors@yk.com
June 15, 2008 will be the 4th annual Elder Abuse Awareness Day in Nova Scotia.
The Department of Seniors issued a news release on Senior Abuse Awareness Day to mark the occasion. For information on activities and information/resources available, visit http://www.gov.ns.ca/scs/elderabuseday.asp
If you know of any events planned in your community, please let us or any of your provincial liaisons know, so we can post it here. You can get copies of the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day posters from your regional consultant while quantities last. Liaisons: Jolene Kemp, Educator, Email: jody@tbaytel.net Raeanne Rideout, Central East Regional Consultant Ontario's Elder Abuse Strategy, Email: rrideout@bellnet.ca 32;
If you know of other events planned in your community in Prince Edward Island, please let your provincial liaison (contact person) know, so we can post it here. Liaison: Judy Lynn Richards, University of Prince Edward Island & PEI Centre for Health and Aging. Email; jlrichards@upei.ca
If you know of any events planned in your community, please let your provincial liaison know, so we can post it here.
Liaisons:
Pierre Dubois, Executive Director Assistant RQCAA,
Réseau québécois pour contrer les abus envers les aînés. E-mail:
pdubois@rqcaa.org
Maxine Lithwick (CSSS Cavendish-site René-Cassin), Email: 32; mlithwick@ssss.gouv.qc.ca 32;
If you know of any events planned in your community, please let your provincial liaison know, so we can post it here. Regina Area Liaison: Elliott Paus-Jenssen. Email: elliot.pausjenssen@shaw.ca
If you know of events planned in your community in the Yukon, please let us know, cspencer@shaw.ca and we will be happy to post it here.
Nunavut's contact person for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is Catherine Foo, Senior Policy Analyst, Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth. Email: CFoo@GOV.NU.CA Tel: (867) 975-5506 If you know of events planned in your community in Nunavut, please let us know, cspencer@shaw.ca and we will be happy to post it here.
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New
Brunswick
Newfoundland
and Labrador
Nunavut
Ontario
Prince
Edward Island
Yukon
Premier
Rodney
MacDonald
proclaimed
June
15,
2008
Senior
Abuse
Awareness
Day
in
Nova
Scotia.
Here
is
the
text
of
the
proclamation
in
English
and
French:
