This April, during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), we urge you to consider how sexual assault affects individuals across the lifespan. 

A short list of COVID-19 resources for the field.

You can now view a recording of the Stalking and Older Adults webinar that was first offered on January 31, 2020.

Please join us for this 5-part webinar series, Abuse in Later Life: A Webinar Series for Civil Attorneys and Legal Advocates, presented by the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence.

This webinar will provide an overview of immigrant seniors’ and disabled adults’ legal rights to access immigration relief, U and T visa certification, family law protections, victim, legal and social services, and which forms of publically-funded benefits and services immigrant victims of abuse in later life qualify for in your state.

Please join Dana Fleitman from the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC) and NCALL’s Ann Laatsch for a webinar on Stalking and Older Adults.

As we close out 2019 and look forward to 2020 and beyond, I challenge you to consider what you can do—in your work, your community, your personal life—to elevate the voices of older survivors and honor the lives of older adults.

The OVW Fiscal Year 2020 Enhanced Training and Services to End Abuse in Later Life (Abuse in Later Life Program) Solicitation is now available. This grant program supports a comprehensive approach to addressing abuse in later life, including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, neglect, and exploitation committed against victims who are 50 years of age or older.

What's the role ageism (stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination towards people on the basis of age) may play in providers' capacity to identify and respond to abuse, and elders’ decisions to disclose violence?

An elderly woman was brought to the emergency department covered in bruises from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. She had been in the care of her son for just a day after a stay in a local nursing home.