NCALL - For Trainers

Trainers' Toolkit

The Trainers’ Toolkit offers several new and redesigned resources for trainers, including PowerPoint slide sets, interactive training exercises, and training modules. Trainers may use these components to create or enhance their own abuse in later life training.

We also encourage you to visit our video library, which has more than 30 video clips featuring subject matter experts discussing topics on providing services to older survivors of abuse to supplement your trainings.

Please contact us at ncall@ncall.us if you wish to discuss your training with us or if you have any questions or comments.

PowerPoint Slide Sets

NCALL has created a number of PowerPoint slide sets for others to use in their own trainings on abuse in later life and elder abuse. Suggested videos that may be included in the presentations are listed directly below each module title. Each slide set may be used on its own for topical trainings on:

Defining Elder Abuse and Abuse in Later Life

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Define elder abuse and abuse in later life

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Intimate Partner Violence in Later Life

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Define intimate partner violence in later life
Recognize that a significant portion of elder abuse cases involve female victims
with spouses as perpetrators
Describe power and control tactics in abuse in later life

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Sexual Abuse in Later Life

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Define sexual abuse in later life
Recognize unique issues for older victims

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Stalking in Later Life

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Describe in stalking later life
Explore some of the unique issues for older victims of stalking
Recognize technology can be used in stalking in later life

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PowerPoint Slides

Economic Abuse & Financial
Exploitation in Later Life

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Define and identify indicators of economic abuse in the context of intimate partner violence
Define and identify indicators of financial
exploitation by family members, trusted others, or strangers
Identify resources to assist older victims who have experienced economic abuse or financial exploitation

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Trainers may also pick and choose from the slide sets to create a customized training of their own design.

Interactive Training Exercises

We designed our interactive exercises to help get participants engaged in trainings on abuse in later life and elder abuse and to help them recognize some of the unique challenges faced by older survivors of abuse.

Age and Assumptions: An Exercise for Domestic Violence Advocates Highlighting how Ageist Assumptions Impact on Our Work

Aging and Ageism: A Warm-Up Exercise to Explore Participants' Perceptions about Aging

Single Birdcage: A Training Activity for Multidisciplinary Audiences on the Impact of Unhelpful or Victim Blaming Comments

Exercise

Double Birdcage: A Training Activity for Multidisciplinary Audiences on Supportive Response to Disclosures about Abuse in Later Life

Exercise

Comings and Goings: A Training Activity for Multidisciplinary Audiences on Walking in the Shoes of an Older Victim

First Call Exercise: An Exercise for Multidisciplinary Audiences Illustrating the Barriers and Limited Options Available for Many Older Victims of Abuse

Training of Trainers Modules

NCALL has created these Training of the Trainers (TOT) Modules to provide trainers with tips and strategies to lead successful training events. Each module is no longer than 30 minutes and designed so trainers can watch from their desk. The three TOT Training Modules are described below:

Creating Engaging Interactive Presentations and Trainings

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Create engaging, interactive presentations or trainings by:
- Asking key questions: who, what, where, when, how
- Crafting measurable learning objectives and building an agenda using various teaching methods
- Designing PowerPoint slides that are visually appealing and accessible

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Interactive Training Techniques and Including Older Survivors

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Describe the needs of adult learners
Utilize various interactive training techniques
Identify when to use older survivors as speakers and strategies to support them

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Tips for Trainers

As a result of this training, participants will be better able to:

Utilize strategies to address potential presenter communication problems
Describe the benefits and challenges of team teaching
Identify ways to handle the challenging participant and to manage conflict
List and utilize options the presenter has to respond to challenging participant behavior

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