Best Practices

Welcome to the NAPSA Best Practices page. This is an opportunity for APS practitioners to share information about innovative work that you are doing. Your work can be in the area of research, findings or reports of surveys that you have conducted on the local, state or national level. Other areas of best practices are casework intervention, community collaboration, developing funding resources, financial exploitation, investigation, public awareness, self-neglect, statutes, policies or regulations or other.

NAPSA CORE COMPETENCIES

NAPSA is a member of the National APS Training Partnership which is developing trainings for the 23 core competencies identified by NAPSA as being critical skills for APS workers.  These training modules are available nationally for all APS organizations to use to advance workforce skills and knowledge. Comprehensive training packets are accessible at no cost for states and counties to utilize in their training efforts. Training modules include scripted trainer and trainee materials, with skill-based learning activities, handouts, evaluation materials and PowerPoint Presentations. Each module includes an executive summary to support supervisors in assisting staff with transfer of learning skills in the work environment.

The Academy for Professional Excellence/ MASTER  website is : http://theacademy.sdsu.edu/programs/Project_Master/core.html

The Bay Area Academy/ Statewide APS Training Project website is : http://www.baa-aps.org/article.php?id=534

A Message From the Research Committee of the National Adult Protective Services Association and the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse: NAPSA NCPEA Intro Message.pdf

GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR RESEARCH
IN ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES

GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING AND APPLYING RESEARCH
IN ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES