Aging Without Violence: Gap Analysis
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Strengthening Gender-Based Responses to End Violence Against Older Women in Ontario
Gap Analysis Overview
The gap analysis was undertaken to examine gaps in existing roles, resources, and responses to determine what training tools, techniques and topics frontline service providers in Ontario need when working with, supporting and advocating for older women who have experienced violence or may be at risk of experiencing violence. The ultimate goal of the gap analysis was to provide the AWV Provincial Advisory with an understanding of potential gaps to inform future directions and activities of the project over the next 3 years.
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About the Aging Without Violence Project
In January 2018, OAITH received funding from the Ministry of Community and Social Services to lead a 4-year province-wide training and resource project focused on ending violence against older women (VAOW) in Ontario. Year 1 (2017-2018) of the project focused on three distinct information gathering activities, including a gap analysis, environmental scan and province-wide forum. This document presents the findings of the environmental scan, which consisted of a literature review and comparative analysis.
About the Environmental Scan
This section of the research provides an overview of the systems and tools in place to respond to violence against older women in Ontario and beyond. The environmental scan called for a review of literature, information, programs, services, and resources currently available to Ontario service providers working with older women experiencing violence. The scan focused on Ontario content; however, the comparative analysis included content and processes developed outside of the province and Canada. Findings from both methods helped inform the gap study, which is presented in the Gap Analysis Report.
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Aging Without Violence March 2018 Forum
Rochella Vassell, Elder Abuse Ontario: Safety Planning for Older Women
Learning Objectives
- Understand the practicality and suitability of the safety planning tool and how it can be useful when working with older adults
- Understand the role of a POA/SDM and the OPGT when safety planning with older adults
- Understand Elder Abuse as it relates to the LTCHA, RHA, HCCA and SDA
- Understand provincial resources that can assist with aiding an older adult to create a safety plan.
Older Women and Implications of Aging in Canada: A South Asian Perspective
- Baldev Mutta, CEO
- Mandy Grewal, Manager of Operations
- Aman Virk, Peer Support Program Coordinator
Some Key Issues for Elder Women in the South Asian community
- More isolated at home (men are able to attend seniors groups)
- Less accessibility to primary care
- Vision, Hearing and Dental
- Less of a priority
- Contribute more to homemaking Taking care of grand children
- Cooking and cleaning
- Less access to finances
- More vulnerable to property abuse
- More at risk for admittance to LTC facility than men
Presentation of Karine Denis and Annick Bovin: 55+ Women's Group: Overview of the Guide and Best Practices
GOAL OF THE PROGRAM:
Guide a group of Francophone women aged 55 and older to increase their personal confidence.
OBJECTIVES: Make sure that participants in the group can:
- Escape their isolation
- Improve their self-awareness and self-esteem
- Learn to recognize abusive situations
- Use available resources, such as:Their individual and personal resources
- Community resources, both formal and informal
One in three Canadian women will experience violence or abuse at least once in their lifetime, often first during childhood. Women and girls with prior experiences of victimization are at a greater risk for subsequent revictimization and/or use of relational aggression than those without this experience. This lifetime exposure to violence has significant immediate and longterm physical, psychological/emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal health consequences
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Groupe pour femmes de 55 ans et plus: apercu du guide et des meilleures pratiques - 55+ Women's Group: Overview of the Guide and Best Practices. Presented by Karine Denis and Annick Bovin, Centre Passerelle pour femmes du nord de l"Ontario (CPF).
This video is presented in French with English captions.
Discussions around ending violence against women (VAW) in Muslim communities in Canada have often been steeped with Islamophobia. When gendered violence is perpetrated in white non-Muslim Canadian contexts, the violence is viewed as being rooted in patriarchy, rather than in Canadian culture or the country’s major religious institutions. In contrast, when gendered violence is perpetrated within Muslim communities in Canada, there is an “exclusive emphasis on culture as the sole source of patriarchal violence” (Razack, 2004), and the solution becomes about “rescuing Muslim women from their feudal cultures” (Razack, 2004).