Long Beach Elder Abuse Prevention Team EAPT City of Long Beach

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Long Beach Elder Abuse Prevention
Team(EAPT)City of Long Beach

• Multidisciplinary Team
• Theresa Marino, Manager, Bureau of Public Health
• Christabel Trinidad, Program Coordinator
• Nani Blyleven, Administrative Analyst
• Nancy Lewis, PHN, Public Health Nurse

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Successes and Accomplishments

• The Long Beach Elder Abuse Prevention Team fills
  the void in the greater Long Beach area (half
  millions person), where no MDT existed prior to
  2006, to address elder abuse and neglect.
• The reassignment and restructuring of the Long
  Beach Police Department handling elder abuse
  cases. There is now a section that specifically
  handles elder abuse, in addition to the
  forgery/fraud, domestic violence and adult
  investigation sections.

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Successes and Accomplishments

• As a result of the January 2007 meetings
  educational training on fiduciary abuse, EAPT
  members from various agencies worked together to
  help a family recover the full down payment of
  5000 and the cancellation of a 100,000 contract
  entered into by their 87-year-old father who was
  a victim of a financial scam.
• The success of holding a meeting with a
  representative from Seniors Against Investment
  Fraud (SAIF) with the Dept. of Corporations about
  re-implementing the SAIF program in Long Beach
  with the involvement of LBPD and has since been
  re-implemented with RSVP.

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Get Smart

• In addition to starting the EAPT, the smartest
  thing the program did was schedule the monthly
  meetings at lunchtime so persons had adequate
  time to attend. This provided time for networking
  and trust building among one another.

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Lessons Learned

• By hosting the November 2007 EAPT Community
  Education Forum for Providers with attendance of
  more than 105 persons. The EAPT learned that
  providing awareness was vital to preventing elder
  abuse and neglect.

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Challenges

• Lack of cases brought for case conferencing
• To build the MDT and building trust. Members
  gained the knowledge of each other and their
  services, and they were able to work together and
  resolve cases

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Surprise!

• The staff learned from the Archstone Foundation
  that the EAPT functions as a community coalition,
  not an MDT!

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Phase II Goals

• Goal 1 To enhance, sustain and institutionalize
  the Long Beach Elder Abuse Prevention Team
  (LBEAPT) Community Coalition by December 31, 2010
• Goal 2 Create a minimum of three working groups
  as subcommittees of the LBEAPT.
• Goal 3 Continue the community awareness campaign
  to increase prevention and reporting of elder
  abuse and neglect in the greater Long Beach area.

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The Big Picture

• Continue as a coalition to provide education,
  training, and community awareness
• Hold an educational forum yearly
• The work group will hold monthly case
  conferencing
• Address two major issues for work groups abuse
  in unlicensed board and care homes and lack of
  shelters for abuse and neglect victims

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Value Added

• Networking, sharing information and working on
  common goals, to raise awareness about elder
  abuse.
• Share the EAPTs experiences with the process of
  starting an MDT in conjunction with a community
  coalition

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Dream Big

• What is your vision for the lasting legacy of the
  project in your community?
• That the Long Beach Elder Abuse Prevention Team
  will continue to exist within the greater LB area
  and that elder abuse and neglect will decrease as
  a result of this project.