APS Technical Assistance Resource Center: Recent Episodes
APS TARC Podcast
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speak with Stacie Tolson and Courtney Fox from Oklahoma Human Services. We will discuss how Oklahoma supports their APS professionals through innovative IT enhancements.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speakwith Megan Dooley, Occupational Therapist, Founder of Innovative Therapy Solutions and Rachel Wiley, Occupational Therapist, Founder of the Dementia Collaborative. We will discuss how APS professionals can effectively navigate consent, capacity, and safety issues when their clients express sexual andintimacy behaviors and desires.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert speaks with Karl Urban, a Senior Research Manager at the APS TARC. They discuss several APS TARC publications from the past year that highlight promising practices in APS as related to partnerships and collaboration.
APS clients may, at times, move across state borders during an APS investigation. Identifying appropriate agencies among state APS programs near one another creates a framework for effectively communicating, reporting, and investigating. This framework supports cooperation and collaboration to work with and for APS clients who have been reported to have been abused, neglected, and/or financially exploited. A transcript of this podcast is available at https://pstrapiubntstorage.blob.core.windows.net/strapib/January_2026_Podcast_Transcript_a5aec048ec.pdf.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speak with Missouri and Virginia APS quality assurance programs. They will discuss how they started their programs and where they stand now 2-3 years later. This episode references the Virginia APS Dashboard available at https://www.dars.virginia.gov/aps/APSdashboard.htm. For a transcript of this podcast, please visit https://ehc.acl.gov/uploads/May_2025_Podcast_Transcript_approved_ADA_f43f681ead.pdf.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speak with MT Connolly, a leading national expert on elder justice and the co-designer of the RISE model. RISE stands for Repair harm, Inspire change, Support connection, Empower choice.A transcript of this podcast is available at https://pstrapiubntstorage.blob.core.windows.net/strapib/September_2025_Podcast_Transcript_d3c7b105f2.pdf.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speak with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Christine Kieffer is a Senior Director and Olivia Valdes is a Principal Research Analyst at the FINRA Investor Education Foundation. We will discuss what FINRA is, relevant research and resources from the FINRA Foundation, and how FINRA and the FINRA Foundation can help you advance your work in financial exploitation and support APS clients. This podcast references a document that is located at https://www.finrafoundation.org/sites/finrafoundation/files/AARP-FINRA-Foundation_Words%20Matter_Say_This.pdf. A transcript of this podcast is available at https://pstrapiubntstorage.blob.core.windows.net/strapib/July_2025_Podcast_Transcript_c4b1a47fe8.pdf.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speak with Joe Applebaum and Stu Maddux, the co-founders of the Clowder Group, a social impact film company that is producing a docuseries titled, “The Heroes of Adult Protection”. For a transcript of this podcast, please visit https://ehc.acl.gov/uploads/March_2025_APS_TARC_Podcast_Transcript_d4140651f0.pdf.
ACL’s Final Rule notes that State entities shall establish policies and procedures, consistent with State law, to ensure coordination and to detect, prevent, address, and remedy adult maltreatment and self-neglect with other appropriate entities. In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert will speak with Lindsay Calamia (EMDT Program Manager) and Allison Granata (Director for EMDT Initiatives) of LifeSpan of Greater Rochester’s Enhanced Multidisciplinary Technical Assistance Resource Center. For more information on the resource center, please visit www.NYSEMDT.org. For a transcript of this podcast, please visit https://ehc.acl.gov/uploads/January_2025_APS_TARC_Podcast_Transcript_21977f80af.pdf.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging, Kari Benson, provides information and insight into the Administration for Community Living and the Office of Elder Justice and Adult Protective Services.
According to National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System (NAMRS) data, a little under 25% of APS reports are called into APS regarding adults aged 18-59. In this podcast, we will discuss how APS can better serve people with disabilities who are under 60 years old. Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Patty Quatieri of the Disabled Persons Protection Commission and Leigh Anne McKingsley, Senior Director of Disability & Justice Initiatives for The ARC.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Linsay Tomlinson, Director of Worker Safety Support at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The Safety Unit provides response, training and support to APS professionals across the state of Texas.A transcript of this podcast is avaiable at https://pfs2.acl.gov/strapib/assets/July2024_Podcast_Transcript_146fc6e23b.pdf.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Tammy Sever, former chief of APS in Nevada, Robin Tejada, Chief of Nevada APS and Debra Bookout, Directing Attorney of Guardianship Advocacy Project at Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. We will learn more about Nevada APS and their commitment to their clients through their work with the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Taryn Hughes, a compassion fatigue therapist with Forest Hughes & Associates. Ms. Hughes trains human services professionals regarding compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. We will learn more about how APS professionals normalize what we see and how we can limit our trauma exposure.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Dr. Kristin Lees Haggerty, Project Director of the National Collaboratory to Address Elder Mistreatment and Associate Director of the National Dementia Care Collaborative at the Education Development Center. We will learn more about their report, "Adult Protective Services and Reporter Communication Recommendations for Improving Practice" available at https://www.edc.org/pathways-safety-examination-federal-and-state-level-barriers-and-facilitators-elder-abuse-reporting.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Bill Benson and Peggy Jo Archer from the Native American Elder Justice Initiative (NAEJI). We will learn more about how NAEJI works to address the lack of culturally appropriate information and community education materials on elder abuse in Indian Country.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Shelly Jackson and Talitha Guinn-Shaver of the Department of Justice Elder Justice Initiative. Listeners will learn about the ongoing work of the Elder Justice Initiative and more specifically about how the MDT Resource Center can support APS programs.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, will speak with Stefanie Woodard of Colorado, Traci Robertson of Oregon, and Joyce Reed of Tennessee. We will hear how each state has continued their administrative work on APS cases involving self-neglect. This podcast is a follow-up to the July 14, 2022 webinar titled, “Innovative Responses to Self Neglect.”
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, Mariah Freark, Deputy General Counsel at the Disabled Persons Protection Commission, and Dr. Heather Goldsworthy of Temple University Harrisburg, will explore what factors are associated with the final dispositions (substantiation/confirmation) in APS cases and indicators as to why there is a large range of substantiation/confirmation rates across APS programs and even within APS programs. Transcript is available at https://apstarc.acl.gov/podcasts.
In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert and Esperanza Lucero, New Mexico’s Adult Protective Services Deputy Director will discuss how New Mexico has used ACL formula grant funding to focus on prevention, intervention, and harm reduction in cases of self-neglect, their most frequently reported allegation.
In this podcast Erin Salvo, the Associate Director of Adult Protective Services for the State of Maine, and Patty Kimball, the Executive Director of the Elder Abuse Institute of Maine will discuss how Maine APS has worked with the Elder Abuse Institute to implement the RISE Model into their elder abuse interventions. The RISE model utilizes integrated and restorative justice principles to address various forms of elder abuse. APS refers clients to advocates who then offer person-centered services to reduce the likelihood of revictimization. Visit https://apstarc.acl.gov/podcasts for a transcript of this podcast.
This podcast features Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert in conversation with three legends of APS – Georgia Anetzberger, Tommy Reed, and Joe Snyder who offer their unique perspective and reflections on their long careers, how far APS and the field have come, and some of the critical challenges that lie ahead.
September 2022 - The fourth in a series of podcasts which share promising practices and innovations from various APS programs who have received Administration for Community Living (ACL) discretionary grants. In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert and Lianna Waller, Acting Adult Protective Services Bureau Chief discuss how Montana APS has maximized ACL funding in working with APS clients, alleged perpetrators, community, and service providers to better serve Montanans experiencing opioid and substance use disorders. Program goals include whole client/community APS assessment and service planning, decreasing case reoccurrence, tracking, and documenting services/resources, as well as identifying service gaps.
February 2022 - The first in a series of podcasts which share promising practices and innovations from various APS programs who have received Administration for Community Living (ACL) discretionary grants. The inaugural podcast, with Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, and Angela Medina, APS Director of Policy and Performance Management at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, focuses on how the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is improving financial exploitation investigations and client services through multi-disciplinary partnerships and the use of high-level forensic accounting.
June 2022 - The third in a series of podcasts which share promising practices and innovations from various APS programs who have received Administration for Community Living (ACL) discretionary grants. In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert and Mary McGurran, Adult Protection Supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Human Services discuss how Minnesota APS is making equity-informed change across the program spectrum by maximizing ACL funding, data, and multi-level stakeholder collaboration.
April 2022 - The second in a series of podcasts which share promising practices and innovations from various APS programs who have received Administration for Community Living (ACL) discretionary grants. In this podcast, Jennifer Spoeri, APS TARC Subject Matter Expert, Mariah Freark, Deputy General Counsel for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC), John Mullaly and Brian Kelly, both with MASS Advocates (Massachusetts Advocates Standing Strong), discuss the person-centered, collaborative co-design/development/implementation of an enhanced technology-based abuse education and reporting system called, “Recognize, Report, Respond (R3)” for use by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.