Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse

~~~~

Réseau canadien pour la prévention des

mauvais traitements envers les aîné(e)s

2005 Report from the Board

A Review of the Last Year

Over the last year the CNPEA board has been working hard to identify priorities for the Network and enhance its long term viability.

The Board has met monthly by teleconference to become a team, developing detailed strategic and work plans. We began a detailed review of our bylaws to make changes to better enable us to build the national network while upholding our legal responsibilities. Weve worked on funding applications to hold a national meeting with participants from each province and territory in Canada. We are in the process of revising and updating the CNPEA brochure.

Getting the Word Out

In working to build the CNPEA network we were very fortunate this year to have had volunteer support from Charmaine Spencer of the Gerontology  Research Centre at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver who very generously created and launched the new CNPEA website www.cnpea.ca.

Our goal is to keep adding information about initiatives and emerging approaches from across Canada. So if you don’t see your region reflected on the site, please get in touch with her. Charmaine has also played a leadership role in the first edition of the CNPEA newsletter, for which we are all most grateful.

On a More Personal Note

I'd also like to thank my fellow Board members for their ongoing commitment and hard work over the last year. They are an amazing group of people:

–       Jean Guy Saint-Gelais, Quebec (Vice-Chair)

–       Elizabeth Podnieks, Ontario (Past Chair)

–       Gloria Dixon, Manitoba (Secretary)

–       Rosemary Lester -Newfoundland and Labrador – Treasurer

–       Catherine (Kip) Veale – Yukon

–       Esther Braden – Northwest Territories

–       Wayne Hill – Alberta

–       Mark Yaffe – Quebec

–       Maxine Lithwick – Quebec

–       Joan Harbison – Nova Scotia

And a special note of appreciation as well to the following other supporters and volunteers who have helped us immensely - Eileen Mead and Susan Crichton – Manitoba, Joleene Kemp – Ontario and Somen Goodman, Quebec.

Respectfully submitted,

Alison Leaney – BC – Chair

Thanks So Much for Your Support!!!

Thanks to the many individuals and organizations who wrote very eloquent letters of support for one of our funding applications:

–       Dr. Alain Pavilanis (President, College of Family Physicians of Canada)

–       Ann Soden (Executive Director of the National Institute of Law, Policy and Aging and Founding Past Chair of the National Elder Law Section of the CBA)

–       Esther Roberts (President, Canadian Caregiver Coalition)

–       Faye Porter (VP National Programs and Volunteerism, VON Canada)

–       Joan M. Campbell (Acting President and CEO, Canadian Association for Community Care)

–       Carol Ward Hall (recently retired ED, BC Coalition to Eliminate Abuse of Seniors)

–       Wayne K. Hill (Chair, Alberta Elder Abuse Awareness Network)

–       Amanda Macrae (CEO, Age and Opportunity Inc.  Manitoba)

–       Norma Drosdowech (Chair, Manitoba Council on Aging)

–       Cpl. Jo-Anne Prejet (Community Policing Services - “D” Division, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Manitoba))

–       Beatrice Campbell (President, NWT Seniors Society)

–       Norman Murray (Director, Department of Health and Social Services of Nunavut)

–       Barbara Saunders (ED, Status of Women Council of the NWT)

–       Alvin Armstrong (Director, Hay River Seniors Society)

–       Howard Kravitz (ED, Ontario Network for the     Prevention of Elder Abuse)

–       Randi Fine (Executive Director of Older Persons’ Mental Health and Addictions Network of Ontario)

–       Lynn McDonald (Director, Institute for Human   Development, Life Course, and Aging, University of Toronto)

–       Jean-Guy Saint Gelais (President, Conference des  Tables regionales de concertation des aînés du  Québec Inc.)

–       Georges Lalande (President, Conseil des aînés -Council of Elders)

–       Helene Wavroch (Presidente, Le Réseau Québécois pour Contrer les Abus Envers les Aînés (Québec  Network))

–       Heather Praught (Chair, Elder Abuse Prevention Strategy Committee, Nova Scotia Seniors Secretariat)

–       Bernie LaRussic (Vice-Chair, Group of IX Seniors’ Organizations (Nova Scotia))

–       Joan Dawe (Chair, Interagency Elder Abuse    Committee (Newfoundland & Labrador) & Chair,  Seniors Resource Centre Association of Newfoundland & Labrador Inc.)

–       Olive Bryanton (Coordinator, PEI Centre for Health and Aging)

–       John Ottenheimer (Minister, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador, Department of Health & Community Services)

Back to  Home Page                                                                                                                                       

Canadian Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse.

Questions? Comments? Contact Webmaster: