Celebrating the Power of Collaboration Against Elder Financial Abuse

Macha and our partners continue to be blown away by the kind words and support resulting from the June 15th World Elder Abuse Awareness Day conference. We are honored to share the words of appreciation from Deborah M. Royster of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"Thank you so much for introducing Jenefer Duane to your elder justice contacts in Hawai'i to share information about our Elder Fraud Prevention and Response Network program and other resources. And thank you especially for providing your production team to plan and execute an enormously successful network development event on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. We also greatly appreciate your effort to engage the Hawai’i Credit Union League and PacPay as sponsors, resulting in more than 60 financial institution representatives attending from throughout the state.

Macha’s leadership in producing this statewide World Elder Abuse Awareness Day event is truly unprecedented. The event clearly demonstrated the impact that a payments association can have by acting as a catalyst for collaboration between financial institutions and diverse elder justice stakeholders working together to increase prevention and enhance response to elder financial exploitation.

We greatly appreciate the significant amount of time and expertise you and your staff invested in planning, producing and executing this dynamic event. You really raised the bar! The impact of this most memorable World Elder Abuse Awareness Day will serve as an inspiration to be built upon across the nation for many years to come.

Thank you again for working with Jenefer to bring this great achievement to fruition. In fact, I have asked Jenefer to set up a time when you can meet with me and members of our team to discuss your industry’s engagement in elder financial exploitation and how we can continue to work together to replicate this kind of collaboration across the nation.

We look forward to our continued work together in the future."

Deborah Royster, the pleasure is all ours. Thank you to you and your organization for participating. Every voice, every supporter, every advocate moves us forward. Collaboration brings success!