The 2008 Global Celebration
was held in
Ottawa, Canada

Monday, June 16, 2008
Click here for "Save the Date" Flyer

Download Program & Registration Brochure
Click here - Français .pdf - English .pdf

Celebrate
World Elder Abuse
Awareness Day
Annually on 15 June!

Show the world you care
about ending elder abuse and neglect.

"Wear something purple"
on World Awareness Day - every June 15th.

Please utilize INPEA's authentic
World Day Logos! (click here for logos)
When INPEA materials are used, please credit INPEA.

How did you or your community recognize the
3rd Annual World Elder Abuse Awareness Day?

Tell us about your
"World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" activities
(click here for event/action forms)
for Calendar of WEAAD Global Events
Annual Follow-up Survey Form
(click here for follow-up survey forms)
or just send along a brief report and
photos to weaad-info@inpea.net
We'll add it to
WEAAD Global Reports

INPEA wishes to give special recognition to
The Association of Retired WHO Employees,
and to AARP Office of International Affairs
for their continued support of WEAAD

Resource Library

Welcome to INPEA's

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Kit

The materials listed below may be used for the following purposes:

  1. To raise awareness about World Elder Abuse Awareness Day with your local media, colleagues and other contacts,
  2. To help you plan and implement your own World Day Elder Abuse Awareness Day activities, and
  3. To register your World Awareness Day activities with INPEA so that they may be listed on the INPEA World Awareness Day Calendar of Events.

Resource Tool Kit
to Raise World Awareness
on Adult Abuse

This Community Resource Tool Kit is created to help individuals, organizations and communities throughout the world plan for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, to be held on June 15 of each year. The first WEAAD was launched on June 15, 2006.

Awareness Day
Press Release

Use this press release
to raise awareness
in your community.

Core Campaign Message

The key objective of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is to raise awareness of elder abuse (which encompasses neglect and mal- or mistreatment) throughout the world.

Elder Abuse Fact Sheet
(World Health Organization)


Educate others about elder abuse.

Awareness Day Flyer:

Posters

Call-to-Action Poster

Use this poster to encourage your community to wear something "purple" on June 15, in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Localize the poster by adding your organization's information at the bottom.

Event Announcement Poster

Use this poster to announce any activities you are planning in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. You can add your local organization's information at the bottom.

CCSF Posters

An assortment of posters in several languages with white space at the bottom for you to put the details of your event.


Click Here to View
Have a question about WEAAD? Maybe the answer is on the WEAAD FAQ page.

WEAAD Event Submission Form

To have your event included with Global Events 2008, please complete the WEAAD Event Submission Form.

WEAAD Around the World - Global Events 2008!

See what Global Events 2008 were planned for recognition of WEAAD.
For outcomes of some of these events, peruse the Global Reports 2008 page.

Calendar of WEAAD Events 2007

See what happened during Global Events 2007 for ideas and networking with others.
For outcomes of some of these events, peruse the Global Reports 2007 page.
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INPEA was in Geneva for WEAAD 2007. Click Here for Program and Reception details

We wish to thank all of you who joined WHO, INPEA and our World Day Partners as we launched "The First World Elder Abuse Awareness Day" on June 15, 2006 at UN Headquarters, New York.
Attention! The WEAAD 2006 follow up Survey conducted by INPEA's National Representative of Sweden, Christen Erlingsson has been released. The initial results can be found in the January 2007 Bulletin.

INPEA World Day News bulletins:

(Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks, Ed.D.,
and produced at the INPEA head office at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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