Resource Brief | E-MDT Data Collection
This brief provides a model for a data collection program that can link case and program-level data.
Resource Brief | E-MDT Logic Models
This brief makes a case for establishing a logic model to guide each E-MDT program and clarify a team’s goals and operations.
Navigating Client Capacity Issues (5.11.23)
This session explores how multidisciplinary teams navigate client capacity issues. Presenters discuss common capacity diagnoses among older adults and explain the difference between a capacity assessment and cognitive screening. Participants will be able to identify tools and techniques utilized by…
Best Practices for Evaluating E-MDTs (1.26.23)
Funders are often interested in how effective your program has been in meeting its goals and diminishing risk for older adults. This webinar covers techniques and processes to capture service plan outcomes (successes and failures), understand the impact of case…
Prosecutors as E-MDT Team Members (12.16.22)
Through an interactive case scenario, discussion takes place on the unique role prosecutors can play in forging connections with law enforcement and allied partners on an E-MDT. Information is shared on how to recognize the components of an unrelated case…
The Role of a Forensic Accountant on E-MDTs (11.8.22)
This session explores the role of forensic accountants in E-MDT practice and within the broader context of elder abuse. Coverage also includes locating a forensic accountant, an engagement process, and how the case referral process could work. Presented by: Karen…
Trauma-Informed Practices for MDTs (5.19.22)
This webinar explores how to identify trauma and its impact on older adults, physically and psychologically. Information on how to identify different disciplines’ responses to trauma and its impact on the E-MDT work is also covered. Lastly, this webinar will…
Meaningful Data Collection for E-MDTs (2.28.22)
This webinar makes the case for the value of quality data collection and the barriers to optimizing the process. It also offers strategies for sustainability, specifically addressing the ways MDTs (Multidisciplinary Teams) can work toward a sustainable database/data system. Presented…
The Role of the Prosecutor in E-MDTs (10.27.21)
This session covers prosecutors’ roles in elder abuse investigations, in the court system, and on E-MDTs. Coverage includes strategies for better engaging and utilizing prosecutors on E-MDTs and emerging restorative practice approaches in prosecution. Presented by: Tara Patet, JD, senior…
Team Evaluation for E-MDTs (9.22.21)
This interactive “office hour” features panelists who will share their thoughts on capturing client outcomes, team effectiveness, program evaluation, and building a process to support these evaluations. Presented by: Julia Margaret Rowan, Postdoctoral Scholar, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology;…
The Role of Civil Attorneys within E-MDTs (8.12.21)
This webinar covers different types of civil attorneys, how their expertise differs from other legal professionals, and what civil legal expertise can add to E-MDT discussions and elder abuse responses. Presented by: Deena Schwartz, Elder Abuse Enhanced Multidisciplinary Team (EMDT)…
Institutionalizing Multi-Disciplinary Teams (8.11.21)
This webinar conversation discusses strategies to sustain E-MDTs, obstacles E-MDTs may face when institutionalizing your team, and suggested approaches to overcome them. The discussion focuses on available funding, developing a structure that will assist with receiving funding, and the critical…