Elder Abuse Prevention Interventions Program

To develop, implement, and evaluate successful or promising interventions, practices, and programs to prevent elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including adult protective services programs. Through this program, ACL hopes to demonstrate how exi

FY 2017: funded projects are contributing to the evidence-base on successful approaches to reduce and ameliorate the harm people experience as a result of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation, and to better understand what adult protective services practices produce the best outcomes. FY 2018: demonstration funding to states to improve their adult protective services (APS) systems statewide, including APS practice; services for those experiencing abuse; and APS data collection, reporting, and infrastructure, and the technical ability to provide comprehensive case component data to ACL's National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS). FY 2019: projects targeted at developing benchmarks for elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation prevention, intervention, and remediation/amelioration, such as investigations on: risk and protective factors for being a victim or perpetrator of elder abuse, neglect, or exploitation; impacts of elder abuse on health and long-term care systems; and on the costs of care associated with experiencing abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Eligible entities for grants authorized under Section 411 of the Older Americans Act are: domestic public or private non-profit entities including state and local governments, Indian tribal governments and organizations (American Indian/Alaskan Native/Native American), faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and institutions of higher education, are eligible. For grants authorized under Section 2042 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, state government entities are eligible to apply.

The use of these funds is to support primary, secondary, and/or tertiary elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation activities, interventions, and programs.

Cooperative agreements will be made for up to a 3 year period, depending upon funding availability. Grant extensions are available and may be requested from the grantee's Project Officer.

Cooperative agreements will be awarded on a competitive basis. Specific details for evaluating applications are published as part of the program announcement. Major emphases are: 1) documented need, 2) expected reach , outcomes and impact , 3) organizational capacity, 4) coordination and partnerships, and 5) strong basis in evidence or theory.

Merit review of all applications and issuance of a Notice of Award to the grantee.