Preventing Mistreatment of Vulnerable Adults

With support from the SC Department of Health and Human Services , we are working to develop a training program to prevent mistreatment of vulnerable adults for nursing homes across the state. The collaborative effort brings together two USC teams, each with demonstrated experience in community-derived practitioner education of national significance.

The Office for the Study of Aging and the Center for Child & Family Studies will solicit input on training needs from a variety of stakeholders, including service providers who work with vulnerable adults or victims of crime, community advocates, policymakers, and victims and families affected by mistreatment. This project is a natural extension of the project team’s previous work on aging, victim services, and competency-based professional development, with products of national quality yet suited to SC communities.

Proposed products include print and CD-ROM curricula and video vignettes, as well as a statewide training series presented to nursing home administrators and staff.

If you are interested in talking with program developers about prevention needs, or if you would like further information on the initiative, please contact Carol Cornman (Co-Principal Investigator with Dana DeHart) at 803-777-5337 or cornman@gwm.sc.edu.