The Texas Bar Foundation has awarded a $12,000 grant supporting the 2025 Texas Elder Justice Coalition Summit, a gathering of frontline professionals confronting the crisis of elder fraud and financial exploitation, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 10, 2025 at the Amon Carter Event Center at Lena Pope in Fort Worth.
Since its inception in 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $29 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably-funded bar foundation.
This year’s Summit features a powerful lineup of speakers and experts, including keynote speaker Dave Lieber, The Watchdog columnist for The Dallas Morning News; Detective Jeff Prater, member of the Colleyville Police Department Special Investigations Unit and the U.S. Secret Service Cyber Crimes Task Force; Assistant District Attorneys from both Tarrant and Dallas Counties; and experts from the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.
Topics will include:
- The state of fraud and financial exploitation
- Best practices for financial institutions: identifying, preventing, and reporting these crimes
- Realities of prosecuting financial exploitation in Texas
- Federal, state, and local resources
- Strategies to safeguard Texas’ growing older population
The complete Summit program is available at https://TxElderJustice.org/event/TEJC-Summit-2025
The event is open to professionals working in the legal field, law enforcement, adult protective services, banking, healthcare, victim services, academia and aging services. Continuing Education Credits are available.
In-person registration is $100 through May 28, 2025 and $120 per person after. Register at: https://guardianshipservices.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/TexasElderJusticeCoalitionSummit2025
Additional support for the 2025 Texas Elder Justice Coalition Summit is provided by the Mitchell Senior Solutions Agency, WellMed Charitable Foundation, and the United Way of Tarrant County/Area Agency on Aging of Tarrant County.
The Texas Elder Justice Coalition
The Texas Elder Justice Coalition is a network of multidisciplinary professionals working to end financial exploitation of older adults in Texas through education, advocacy, accountability, and collaboration to promote dignity and financial security in aging. The Coalition was launched by Guardianship Services, Inc. and Texas Healthy at Home with funding from the National Center for State and Tribal Elder Justice.
For more information, contact Dana Hoffman at dhoffman@guardianshipservices.org.