Elder and Dependent Adult Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)

The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) is a select group of professionals throughout the community who work with Elder and/or Dependent Adults.

The Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15763, requires each county to establish and maintain an adult MDT. To meet this goal, Sonoma County Adult Protective Services has facilitated the MDT meeting since 1999.

Professionals from the community present complex cases in confidential meetings and team members provide constructive feedback and identify strategies to reduce risk to these vulnerable adults.

In the process, resources and information about the community services are shared in the group.

The Santa Rosa MDT meets the 1st Tuesday of each month, 1:30 – 3:00pm Location TBA.

MDT FACT sheet

The South County MDT meets every other Month on the third Tuesday 8:30-10am at Senior Advocacy Services in Petaluma.

The Financial Abuse Specialist Team (FAST) meets the second Tuesday of every month 2-3:30pm at the Family Justice Center.

FAST Fact Sheet Apr 2017

For more information or to schedule a case, contact Tara Underly tunderly@schsd.org, 707-565-3921

AT SAS – IT’S BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING THIS COVID-19 HEALTH EMERGENCY – WELL, ALMOST.

Our Agency and staff are here for you, as during other times, to serve our community advocating for older adults and providing needed services. Staff are answering calls and responding to messages while working remotely. Here are some ways our programs continue to serve our community:

· Ombudsman are calling residents and staff of long term care facilities as well as receiving and responding to reports of abuse.

· HICAP staff are answering calls, returning voicemails within 2 hours and setting up virtual appointments. They are currently developing a Medicare Fundamentals Seminar that can be presented via Zoom with question & answer interactive capability.

· Elder Justice is still here to address system challenges in the safety net of services to support older and dependent adults. While many challenges will become apparent following our community response to COVID-19, we’d still like to hear about challenges related to the prevention and response of elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect.

· SASk us about Volunteering! We still need volunteers for our vital programs and are developing remote training opportunities for HICAP and Ombudsman that would allow new volunteers to train remotely and be ready to jump into action when we are past social distancing and staying at home.

· Pick of the Vine. One of the more challenging decisions that SAS had to make was to postpone Pick of the Vine. This event is a 33 year tradition and a beautiful celebration of our communities support of our seniors. The great news is that the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts was very accommodating, and we were able to secure June 20th, 2020 as the NEW DATE for Pick of the Vine. Please put it on your calendar and Click Here to BuyTickets.

· Mother’s Day Flowers. It’s still important to us to honor those mothers who have no one to remember them on Mother’s Day. Depending on how this COVID-19 progresses, the Ombudsman team are creatively planning on how to continue to deliver 400 bouquets to residents in long-term care facilities.

Thank you to all our supporters and partners during this difficult time. Senior Advocacy Services is doing our part to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and are hoping for a timely return to normal activities in a healthy world. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to our staff if we can support you in any way.

You can reach us at (707) 526-4108 or email info@sasnb.org