| Organization Name |
Project Summary |
Funding Amount |
| Association des juristes d'expression française de la Saskatchewan |
The organization will bring Francophone youth and seniors together for active involvement in the prevention of elder abuse through the dissemination of legal information and the development of tools and innovative group activities. |
$300,000 |
| Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Alberta |
The organization will continue work on raising awareness of elder abuse through education sessions, legal workshops and the development of tools to reach Francophone seniors in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia. |
$650,000 |
| Atira Women's Resource Society |
The organization will develop and disseminate a “promising practices” tool across Canada to help communities that operate or are developing transitional/safe housing for senior women. |
$375,000 |
| Burnaby Multicultural Society |
The organization will create an Elder Abuse Awareness Network to raise awareness and prevent elder abuse among Chinese, Korean and South Asian communities in Metro-Vancouver. |
$200,000 |
| Canadian Association for Community Living |
The organization will address abuse of older people with disabilities and deaf people by establishing a coordinated community response in one community in each of the 13 provinces and territories. |
$600,000 |
| Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists |
The organization will educate occupational therapists, physiotherapists and rehabilitation assistants across Canada about the indicators of elder abuse, and its assessment, prevention, intervention protocols and relevant legislation. |
$250,000 |
| Canadian National Institute for the Blind (Alberta) |
The organization will use its peer support model to raise awareness of elder abuse among people who are blind or partially sighted in Alberta and Northwest Territories, including rural and remote areas, and will develop a protocol for reporting incidents of elder abuse. |
$200,000 |
| Centre for Public Legal Education |
The organization will use existing community connections, partnerships, and its extensive experience in the area of elder abuse law to develop and distribute tools and resources to prevent elder abuse. |
$250,000 |
| Coopérative Radiophonique de Toronto |
The organization will reach Francophone populations in Official Language Minority Communities across Canada through radio broadcasting and other forms of media to raise awareness of elder abuse and financial fraud. |
$630,000 |
| Ethiopian Association in the Greater Toronto Area and the Surrounding Regions |
The organization will develop and distribute elder abuse awareness communication products, offer awareness sessions to leaders and service providers of the Ethiopian community, and develop a new Ethiopian seniors support network. |
$159,000 |
| Family Service Toronto |
The organization will partner with Somali and Hispanic communities to enhance their ability to detect and prevent elder abuse through education sessions and the development of peer-support groups for seniors. |
$625,000 |
| Family Services of Central Alberta |
The organization will educate professionals, caregivers and families on elder abuse prevention, and match college students with seniors in Home Share placements to reduce the social isolation of seniors and the risk of elder abuse, including financial abuse. |
$245,000 |
| Fédération des aînées et aînés francophones du Canada |
The organization will update their elder abuse awareness tools, create a national network of partners, and train senior volunteers to facilitate awareness sessions for seniors in Francophone communities across the country. |
$700,000 |
| Good Neighbours Active Living Centre |
The organization will increase awareness of the financial abuse of older adults by engaging the credit unions in Manitoba in educating their members and the general public. |
$350,000 |
| Immigrant Services Guelph-Wellington |
The organization will use the peer support model to raise awareness of elder abuse and financial fraud, and will build a framework that can be reproduced by organizations to engage older adults from at-risk and hard-to-reach populations. |
$247,000 |
| Jewish Family Services of Ottawa |
The organization will partner with organizations and community stakeholders in Calgary, Winnipeg, and Edmonton to address elder abuse in ethno-cultural communities, including among Jewish, Russian and French-speaking immigrants, by developing and delivering culturally and linguistically relevant materials, programs and activities. |
$575,000 |
| Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia |
The organization will develop information and resources to help health care professionals recognize and respond to elder abuse, including financial abuse. |
$181,731 |
| Métis Local 1990 |
The organization will develop an information kit in English and Cree to raise awareness of elder abuse among Métis communities and service providers in Alberta. |
$425,000 |
| New Brunswick Association of Nursing Homes |
The organization will educate nursing home employees and seniors on what elder abuse is and how it can be prevented. |
$350,000 |
| Registered Nurses Association of Ontario |
The organization will create and disseminate a best-practice guideline on elder abuse awareness for nurses across Canada. |
$675,000 |
| Regroupement des centres d'amitié autochtones du Québec |
The organization will partner with Aboriginal seniors to develop material and provide information sessions to raise awareness and prevent elder abuse among urban Aboriginal communities. |
$235,000 |
| Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism |
The organization will enable older adults and their communities to assess elder abuse risk factors in their communities and develop ways to change, reduce or eliminate those risks. |
$317,000 |
| Seniors Resource Centre of Newfoundland and Labrador |
The organization will recruit, train and connect members of their network to develop and implement “alert, aware and action-related” responses to prevent and address elder abuse in Newfoundland and Labrador. |
$600,000 |
| Social Services Network |
The organization will engage the South Asian community in developing and implementing a tool kit that will be used in workshops on the issue of elder abuse. |
$560,000 |
| Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario |
The organization will develop a train-the-trainer workshop to help local and regional groups of ordinary citizens across Canada learn how to respond safely and effectively to warning signs of elder abuse. |
$575,000 |
| Union des consommateurs |
The organization will develop tools and provide information sessions to seniors and their communities regarding seniors’ housing rights. |
$525,000 |
| Vietnamese Women's Association of Toronto |
The organization will increase awareness of elder abuse among Southeast Asian communities through the development of an elder abuse prevention manual translated into five minority languages (Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese). |
$250,000 |
| Yukon Public Legal Education Association |
The organization will develop and deliver presentations and information kits for seniors and elders in Yukon to increase awareness and recognition of elder abuse and to improve community response measures. |
$328,000 |
| YWCA Metro Vancouver |
The organization will continue supporting elder abuse interventions by providing culturally-appropriate elder abuse training and resource materials for front-line YWCA/YMCA service providers across Canada whose clients include seniors. |
$485,000 |
| Total Funding |
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$11,862,731 |
