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 PUBLIC LAW 102-375—SEPT. 30, 1992 106 STAT. 1283 carry out programs for the prevention and treatment of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, including— "(1) providing for public education and outreach to identify and prevent elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation; (2) ensuring the coordination of services provided by area agencies on aging witii services instituted under the State adult protection service program; "(3) promoting the development of information and data systems, including elder abuse reporting systems, to quantify the extent of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation in the State; "(4) conducting analyses of State information concerning elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and identifying unmet service, enforcement, or intervention needs; "(5) conducting training for individuals, professionals, and paraprofessionals, in relevant fields on the identification, prevention, and treatment of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with particular focus on prevention and enhancement of self-determination and autonomy; ''(G) providing technical assistance to programs that provide or have the potential to provide services for victims of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation and for family members of the victims; ''(7) conducting special and on-going training, for individuals involved in serving victims of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, on the topics of self-determination, individual rights, State and Federal requirements concerning confidentiality, and other topics determined by a State agency to be appropriate; and "(8) promoting the development of an elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation system— "(A) that includes a State elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation law that includes provisions for immunity, for persons reporting instances of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, from prosecution arising out of such reporting, under any State or local law; "(B) under which a State agency— "(i) on receipt of a report of known or suspected instances of elder abuse, neglect, or exploitation, shall promptly initiate an investigation to substantiate the accuracy of the report; and "(ii) on a finding of elder abuse, neglect, or exploitation, shall take steps, including appropriate referral, to protect the health and welfare of the abused, neglected, or exploited older individual; "(C) that includes, throughout the State, in connection with the enforcement of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation laws and with the reporting of suspected instances of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation— "(i) such administrative procedures; "(ii) such personnel trained in the special problems of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation prevention and treatment; "(iii) such training procedures; "(iv) such institutional and other facilities (public and private); and "(v) such related multidisciplinary programs and services.

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