GET INVOLVED! Join a NCPEA Committee! Lend your expertise and talents to national, multi-disciplinary work on elder abuse prevention and intervention. Here is a list of committees:

PROGRAM & EDUCATION COMMITTEE produces innovative public and professional education programs on elder abuse prevention and intervention; designs curricula; presents training workshops, conferences, and special initiatives for NCPEA and collaboration partners. Current work includes creating training events with ground-breaking research, video, and interdisciplinary best practices.
Contact:  Holly Ramsey-Klawsnik, Ph.D, Committee Chair
Email:      ramsey-klawsnik@comcast.net
Phone:    781-828-0784

FINANCE & FUND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ** develops NCPEA fiscal policies, budgets, procedures, and regulations; provides fiscal oversight, and works with the Fundraising Committee to coordinate budgeting with development plans.
Contact:   Trudy Gregorie, NCPEA Treasurer
Email:       tgregorie@att.net
Phone:     703-729-1699

BOARD & MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE focuses on sustaining and building NCPEA's membership, and holding an annual membership meeting. The committee also handles decisions pertaining to NCPEA's Board of Directors, such as the nomination of new members. Current projects include developing additional membership benefits and resources and creating new ways for NCPEA to collaborate with and support its members.

Contact:  Mohammad Bader, MS,NCC, LPC Committee Co-Chair
Email:     Mohammad.bader@multco.us
Phone:   503-988-4550

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE solicits and reviews cutting edge research for NCPEA’s signature publication, the Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect (JEAN); collaborates with researchers on NCPEA grants, newsletters and website content.
Contact:   Georgia Anetzberger, PhD,  ACSW, JEAN Editor
Email:      gja417@aol.com
Phone:     216-691-9730

PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE addresses public policy initiatives and legislation; conducts advocacy and research; and promotes national, state, and local coalition building. Currently projects include tracking the progress of the implementation and funding of the Elder Justice Act, and advocating on behalf of other elder abuse/justice legislation pending in Congress.
Contact:  Patricia Brownell, PhD, MSW, Committee Chair
Email: brownell@fordham.edu
Phone: 212 636-6778

NCPEA/NAPSA RESEARCH COMMITTEE*  is a joint effort with the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) with the goal of promoting research in the areas of adult and elder mistreatment, and supporting APS agencies' use of research to inform and strengthen practice. Committee activities include: providing guidance on data collection, data analysis and other research activities of NAPSA and/or NCPEA, initiating new research activities and producing a Research-to-Practice Quarterly webinar series hosted by the National Council on Crime & Delinquency (NCCD).

Contact:  Paula Mixson, LMSW-AP, Committee Co-Chair

Email: paula.mixson@gmail.com

Phone: 512-63-4540

* ad hoc committees

** open to NCPEA board members only