Providing Support to Older Victims

The Department also supports older victims.  The Department manages the National Elder Fraud Hotline, the first national hotline to assist older victims and their families in reporting fraud and/or finding local assistance.  For those searching for resources online, the Elder Justice Neighborhood Map is designed to easily locate state-specific resources.  The Department is advancing prevention through its elder abuse prevention research. The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is promoting elder justice through:

• The Elder Justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship Program, helping to address the myriad legal needs of elder abuse victims (Blog). 
• Funding state and local level elder abuse programs that provide direct community- and systems-based services to older victims (OVC Fact sheet).  
• In 2020, funding the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to develop training and technical assistance for law enforcement on interacting with older victims and ensuring they have access to services in their community.