Register today for Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin’s statewide Elder Abuse Conference. The training will be held September 26, 2024, at the Graduate Hotel in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This all-day event is free and open to the public. Law enforcement, medical professionals, providers, attorneys and home caregivers are welcome to learn how to better protect older and developmentally disabled adults.

This event is approved for 6.5 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit. 

This event is approved for 6.45 CEU hours of Nursing Home Administrator (NHA) continuing education. 

This event is approved for 7 general hours and 1 ethics hour of continuing education by the Arkansas Insurance Department.

This event is approved for CLEST credit for certified law enforcement.

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Welcome Video Greeting

Attorney General Tim Griffin

Opening Remarks

Tammera Harrelson – Deputy Attorney General, Medicaid and Disability Fraud Division, Office of Attorney General Tim Griffin

Brittany Edwards – Senior Assistant Attorney General, Public Protection Division, Office of Attorney General Tim Griffin

Plenary Session

Scam and Identity Theft Presentation

Shamikah Johnson – Investigator, Public Protection Division, Office of Attorney General Tim Griffin

9:45 – 10:00 a.m.

BREAK

10:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Breakout Sessions

Arkansas Securities Department’s Vulnerable Adult Report Program

Campbell McLaurin, Deputy Commissioner, Arkansas Securities Department

Case Studies – Landscape of Elder Abuse in Arkansas

Brittany Edwards – Senior Assistant Attorney General, Public Protection Division, Office of Attorney General Tim Griffin

Gabby Davis-Jones – Assistant Attorney General, Medicaid and Disability Fraud Division, Office of Attorney General Tim Griffin

Laura Glover – Special Agent, Medicaid and Disability Fraud Division, Office of Attorney General Tim Griffin

11:00 – 11:15 a.m.

BREAK

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

Elder Abuse in Arkansas – Intervention and Prevention

Na’Tasha Lucas, Director – Adult Protective Services, Arkansas Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services, Arkansas Department of Human Services

The Importance of Mental Healthcare for Older Adults

Dr. Charles Livingston, DSW, LMSW, Service Center Director, Delta Counseling

12:15 – 1:15 p.m.

LUNCH

Financial Exploitation and Fraud Among the Elderly

Kathy Stokes, Director of Fraud Prevention Programs, AARP

1:15– 2:15 p.m.

Plenary Session

Caregiver Fatigue

Betsy Broyles-Arnold, Founder, CDP, CISM, The Frank & Barbara Broyles Foundation

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

BREAK

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Plenary Session

Missing and Endangered Developmentally Disabled and Older Adults/Silver Alert

Major Stacie Rhoads, Arkansas State Police

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.

BREAK

3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Plenary Session

Resources for Arkansas’s Older Adults – Panel

Panel: Na’Tasha Lucas, Director – Arkansas Adult Protective Services; Jill Thompson, Program Director – Alzheimer’s Association of Arkansas; Christopher McCoy, Associate State Director – AARP Arkansas; Lisa McClelland, Family Caregiver Support Administrator – Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Arkansas

4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks