• Older Adult Psychological Abuse Measure (OAPAM) 

  Conrad, K.J.; Iris, M.; Ridings, J.W.; Langley, K.; Anetzberger, G.J. (The Gerontological Society of America, 2011)

  Conrad, Iris, Ridings, Langley, and Anetzberger developed the Older Adult Psychological Abuse Measure (OAPAM) in 2009 for the National Institute of Justice and validated the tool in 2011. OAPAM is an assessment tool designed ...
• Actual Abuse Tool 

  Bass, D.M.; Anetzberger, G.J.; Ejaz, F.K.; Nagpaul, K. (Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 2001)

  Bass, Anetzberger, Ejaz, and Nagpaul developed the Actual Abuse Tool in 2001 to assist service providers in detecting elder abuse and/or domestic violence among older American adults. This tool provides a list of the major ...
• Questions to Elicit Elder Abuse 

  Carney, M.T.; Kahan, F.S.; Paris, B.E.C. (The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 2003)

  Carney, Kahana, and Paris developed the Questions to Elicit Elder Abuse screening tool in 2003 to guide medical practitioners in screening for elder abuse in their senior patients. The tool opens by encouraging practitioners ...
• Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI) 

  Yaffe, M.J.; Wolfson, C.; Lithwick, M.; Weiss, D. (Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 2008)

  Yaffe, Wolfson, Lithwick, and Weiss developed the Elder Abuse Suspicion Index (EASI) in 2008 to assist doctors in determining whether a patient may be at risk of elder abuse. EASI explicitly states that doctors should use ...
• Risk of Abuse Tool 

  Bass, D.M.; Anetzberger, G.J.; Ejaz, F.K.; Nagpaul, K. (Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 2001)

  Bass, Anetzberger, Ejaz, and Nagpaul developed the Risk of Abuse tool in 2001 to assist social service providers in screening their clients for risk of either perpetrating elder abuse or being victimized by elder abuse ...
• Elder Assessment Instrument (EAI) 

  Fulmer, T. (Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1984)

  Fulmer developed the Elder Assessment Instrument (EAI) in 1984 and updated it in 2003 to allow professionals “in all clinical settings” to screen for suspected elder abuse victims. EAI is designed for use only by clinicians ...
• Brief Abuse Screen for the Elderly (BASE) 

  Reis, M.; Nahmiash, D. (National Institute for the Care of the Elderly, 1995)

  Reis and Nahmiash developed the Brief Abuse Screen for the Elderly (BASE) as part of an intervention model to combat abuse and neglect of older adults in 1995. BASE is designed for home-care workers to screen for abuse in ...
• Indicators of Abuse Screen (IOA) 

  Reis, M.; Nahmiash, D. (The Gerontological Society of America, 1998)

  Reis and Nahmiash developed and validated the Indicators of Abuse Screen (IOA) in 1998 as a screening tool to allow health and social service agency practitioners to identify elders who are being abused by their caretakers. ...
• Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) 

  Reis, M.; Nahmiash, D. (The Canadian Association of Gerontology, 1995)

  Reis and Nahmiash developed the Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) in 1995 and validated it in 2010 to provide communities with a tool to screen for elder abuse through informal caregivers rather than having individuals rely ...
• Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) 

  Schofield, M.J.; Mishra, G.D. (The Gerontological Society of America, 1996)

  Schofield and Mishra developed the Vulnerability to Abuse Screening Scale (VASS) in 1996 and validated the screening tool in 2003. VASS is designed to help identify women above age 70 who may be at risk of elder abuse ...
• Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S/EAST) 

  Neale, A.V.; Hwalek, M.A.; Scott, R.O.; Stahl, C. (Sage Publications, 1991)

  Neale, Hwalek, Scott, and Stahl developed the Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test (H-S/EAST) in 1991 to assist service providers who are interested in identifying people at high risk of the need for protective ...
• Rapid Rehousing for Domestic Violence Victims: A Formative Evaluation [Webinar Slides] 

  Snell, Elisabeth; Morin, Pam; Beaulieu, Melanie; Currier, Nikki (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This webinar presents the findings of one of the Center for Victim Research's funded VOCA-SAC projects. This webinar discusses the evaluation plan, including a theory of change, logic model and measurable outcomes developed ...
• VOCA-SAC Partnership Project Progress Report: Forensic Interviews in Idaho: Current Challenges and Opportunities for Coordinated Service Delivery 

  Kifer, Misty; Strauss, Thomas (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  Idaho’s Crime Victims Compensation Program (CVCP) has been experiencing financial stress in recent years. The suspected driver of that stress is a 2015 federal Medicaid policy change removing forensic interviews from the ...
• A Partnership to Enhance Victim Services: Evaluating Somerset House 

  Plotkin, Alexa; Baker, Maureen; Shaler, George; Snell, Elisabeth (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project is a collaboration between Family Violence Project (FVP), the Maine Statistical Analysis Center (Maine SAC) at the University of Southern Maine, and the Victims of Crime Administering Agency (VOCA) at the Maine ...
• CVAD-SAC Partnership Final Project Progress Report: Rapid Re-housing Program: Process Evaluation and Evaluability Assessment 

  Fineran, Sarah; Loynachan, Tracy; McCoy, Henna (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project proposed to conduct a process evaluation of the Friends of the Family (FOF) program in Iowa. Friends of the Family provides rapid re-housing to individuals and families affected by domestic violence. The process ...
• Improving Financial Justice for Victims of Crime, Part II: Exploring Victim Dynamics 

  Allen, Joseph; Sawa, Amanda (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This project extends the previously-funded study “Improving Financial Justice for Victims of Crime” that was completed and submitted in December 2018. All aspects of the previous partnership were continued in this study, ...
• Poly-victimization Reaches Adolescence: Looking Back and Moving Forward [Webinar Slides] 

  Michel, Yahayra (Center for Victim Research (CVR), 2019)

  This webinar focused on poly-victims, the subgroup of youth that endure the highest burden of victimization. It covers how it has been studied, how often it occurs, what we know about its adverse effects and what we can ...
• The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story 

  Saar, Malika; Epstein, Rebecca; Rosenthal, Lindsay; Vafa, Yasmin (Rights4Girls, 2015)

  This report exposes the ways in which we criminalize girls — especially girls of color — who have been sexually and physically abused, and it offers policy recommendations to dismantle the abuse to prison pipeline. It ...
• Beyond the Walls: A Look at Girls in D.C.'s Juvenile Justice System 

  Vafa, Yasmin; Ferrer, Eduardo; Kaleem, Maheen; Hopkins, Cherice; Feldhake, Emily (Rights4Girls, 2018)

  Both nationally and in the District of Columbia, boys have made up a vast majority of the juvenile justice population. Consequently, research, best practices, system reform efforts, and policies have been ...
• Sexual Violence: Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Efforts to Address the Continuum of Unwanted Sexual Behaviors 

  Farrell, Brenda (Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2017)

  Unwanted sexual behaviors in the military—including sexual harassment, sexual assault, and domestic violence involving sexual assault—undermine core values, unit cohesion, combat readiness, and public goodwill. Recent ...

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