Anyone can host an event or help raise awareness for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). In particular, we encourage councils and seniors groups to jump on board and do something together for WEAAD.
Warm Safe Home
Step 1: Plan and promote your crafting event
- Where will you hold your event or activity?
- How will you promote it? We encourage you to submit your event to the WEAAD website.
- Additional promotional materials and resources are hosted on the WEAAD website.
Step 2: Conduct your crafting event
Items to think about:
- Will you have enough Warm Safe Home templates for artists?
- Will you have enough crafting materials (paints, markers, glue, etc) for artists?
- Do you have a plan in place to exhibit participants’ artworks once they’ve been completed?
- Remember to encourage participants to share their artwork on social media! Please include the #warmsafehome and #WEAAD hashtags.
Step 3: Work with participants to exhibit works
We encourage all participants to work with their organisers to proudly display their Warm Safe Homes!
To do this, please think about the type of exhibit(s) you’d like to run, and the logistics involved when it comes to collecting and displaying the artwork of your participants.
Step 4: Plan, promote and conduct an exhibition
Organisations can plan a specific exhibition event that best suits their situation. This could be a once-off event or even a long-running series of exhibitions — councils could display homes over weeks or months within libraries in the their area, as a terrific example.
Don’t forget to submit your exhibition to the WEAAD website!
Stir a Cuppa with Seniors
We encourage other organisations and members of the community to Stir a Cuppa with Seniors and host your own Purple Tea, either in person or online with staff and volunteers in your organisation, or members of your community group, or friends and family.
Why not organise your own event and have a conversation on ageing over a cuppa, whilst wearing purple or incorporating the colour purple into the event to acknowledge WEAAD. Share your photos to social media and help promote and spread awareness of WEAAD, using the hashtag #WEAAD.
- Connect with colleagues, friends or family over a cuppa via Zoom or in your own home.
- Everyone wears something purple or has something purple in the background – the official colour for WEAAD. It could be purple flowers, purple wig, purple décor, purple backdrop, purple toys, purple face paint, purple anything!
- Take a screenshot in Zoom, or snap a group photo of everyone stirring their cuppa.
- Share your snaps on social media with the hashtag #WEAAD and your own personal message to show your support for seniors.
For resources from other Australian organisations see here and here.