2009
EASI begins in Fresno.
Professors, students, and community volunteers begin organizing around a persistent local gap: older adults facing abuse often do not have elder-appropriate shelter, advocacy, and coordinated support.
About Elder Abuse Services Inc.
A Fresno-born institution built around elder safety, dignity, and connection.
EASI began in 2009 when professors, students, and community volunteers working on victimization issues recognized a local gap in elder-specific shelter and support. The original shelter vision remains part of the institution’s identity, but the work has grown into a broader platform for prevention, education, advocacy development, restorative practice, community partnerships, and elder justice infrastructure.
EASI · The institution
Hold the mission, history, standards, learning, and long-term capacity.
EASI is the nonprofit institution. It carries governance, education and training, volunteer development, institutional memory, program design, fundraising, and the long arc of elder justice work in Fresno and Madera Counties.
Elder Justice Fresno · Building the community response
Turn community capacity into clearer next steps for elders and families.
Elder Justice Fresno is the initiative EASI is developing to connect existing resources, build missing partnerships, and create clearer community pathways. Working toward 2027, EASI is preparing pathways one at a time — emergency-placement readiness, restorative practice, outreach — and each becomes active only when it is actually ready.
See what EASI is buildingFrom our history
The shelter idea was the beginning, not the end.
EASI’s historical site documents a sustained focus on safe housing, victim advocacy, coordinated case management, community education, volunteer training, and restorative options. The current rebuild keeps that purpose while widening the ways the institution can contribute.
2010
The early shelter vision is studied locally.
EASI conducts a Fresno and Madera feasibility study and continues developing the concept that became STAR — an elder-specific path from danger toward safety, stability, and restoration.
2015
Stories and community support stay central.
Seniors Telling Amazing Real-Life Stories (S.T.A.R.S.) becomes part of EASI’s community fundraising and public-awareness history.
2025–2026
The institution rebuilds.
EASI strengthens governance, partnerships, volunteer and internship pathways, digital infrastructure, training plans, and the early Elder Justice Fresno framework.
Toward 2027
From rebuilding to implementation.
EASI is building Elder Justice Fresno as the community response it develops with partners — mapping existing resources, naming gaps, and preparing pathways such as emergency placement and restorative practice — while strengthening training and outreach.
Rebuilding & renewal
The next chapter is being built deliberately.
After years of limited resources, EASI has spent this period rebuilding the organizational foundation required to carry bigger work responsibly.
Strengthened board operations and stewardship
Clarified institutional mission and public identity
Began building Elder Justice Fresno to connect resources and develop missing partnerships
Built volunteer, internship, training, and project pathways
Established new digital workspace and public infrastructure
Designed emergency-placement and restorative-practitioner pathways for development with partners
Institutional memory
Founding materials, prior plans, field research, and current learning belong in a usable public library — not a forgotten archive.
Explore the libraryCommunity education
Education has been part of EASI from the beginning. The next phase turns that history into adaptable public, professional, facility, and family training.
Explore trainingCommunity infrastructure
EASI does not need to become every service. It can help make trusted organizations, facilities, practitioners, and resources easier to find and work with.
Explore the community network