ACL Announces $3
Million Investment to Strengthen Adult Protective Services
ACL is pleased to announce an approximately $3 million
investment to continue efforts to develop tools and infrastructure to
support states in building the Adult Protective Services (APS) of
tomorrow. Over the next three years, ACL will undertake the following
tasks:
- Update the National
Voluntary Consensus Guidelines for State Adult Protective Services
Systems on the 2-year schedule established at launch, create a
dissemination plan for the guidelines, and produce a research agenda
to build a stronger evidence-base of best practices in APS.
- Design and implement an APS
client outcomes study evaluating how various micro-, mezzo-, and
macro- system components impact APS client outcomes.
- Create an inventory of
screening and assessment tools used by APS and others to screen for
elder abuse, and assess each tool’s level of validity.
The investment is the result of a partnership between ACL’s
Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services and ACL’s Office of
Performance and Evaluation. This work will be carried out by New
Editions Consulting, Inc. (a woman-owned small business), and is part of
ACL’s ongoing commitment to support the development and evolution of APS
systems, and to strengthen APS’ capacity to address the abuse, neglect, and
exploitation too often faced by older adults and adults with disabilities.
These projects further ACL’s vision for older Americans and people
with disabilities to be able to live where they choose, with the people
they choose, and fully participate in their communities without threat of
abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
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