EASI Library

Research and institutional memory for the work ahead.

EASI is the institutional home for learning, history, research, and practice development. This library brings together public field reports, historical EASI materials, and the resources that inform current training and program design.

Field research

Start with what the field is learning.

These external sources are useful for understanding elder-abuse response, service gaps, collaboration, restorative approaches, housing, training, and system capacity. Links open the original public source whenever possible.

National Elder Abuse Victim Services Needs Assessment

U.S. Department of Justice · Elder Justice Initiative · 2025

A national study of services, service gaps, barriers, collaboration, outreach, and capacity-building needs in elder abuse response.

Reinforcing California’s Elder Justice Infrastructure

California Elder Justice Coalition · 2023 Blueprint

California-focused priorities, system gaps, APS, long-term care, legal services, equity, financial exploitation, and elder justice infrastructure.

RISE: A Conceptual Model of Integrated and Restorative Elder Abuse Intervention

The Gerontologist · 2023

A person-centered model integrating engagement, supported decision-making, teaming, motivational interviewing, and restorative approaches alongside APS and other systems.

Studies of Mistreatment of Older Adults Offer Solutions to an Urgent and Growing Societal Problem

National Institute of Justice · 2025

A current NIJ overview of emerging elder-mistreatment research and the need for data-driven prevention, intervention, and response.

Building Knowledge About Victim Services

National Institute of Justice / Office for Victims of Crime · 2024

A current victim-services research resource focused on what providers do, how services are used, and how the field can build stronger evidence.

Interventions and Response

National Center on Elder Abuse · current

A living overview of APS, multidisciplinary teams, harm reduction, elder mediation, service advocacy, restorative justice, and other elder-mistreatment interventions.

How Can Restorative Justice Help in Family Guardianships?

National Center on Elder Abuse · 2025

A concise elder-justice issue brief on restorative approaches, family conflict, autonomy, less-restrictive options, safety, and collaborative problem solving.

Foundational reading

Elder justice is bigger than responding after harm.

EASI’s institutional library includes work that helps connect elder abuse prevention with ageism, autonomy, human rights, community connection, public health, and access to justice.

Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services

Office for Victims of Crime · 2013

Still useful as a foundational field framework on continuous strategic planning, research, technology, training, collaboration, and organizational capacity — now paired here with newer victim-services and elder-justice resources.

Elder Justice, Ageism, and Elder Abuse

Lisa Nerenberg, MSW, MPH · Springer Publishing · 2019

A foundational elder-justice text connecting ageism, human rights, public health, policy, access to justice, and elder-abuse prevention.

EASI institutional archive

Preserve what came before without confusing it with today.

EASI’s historical website contains important records of the institution’s shelter vision, board structure, training, events, community education, photographs, and recognition. The first records are now preserved inside this site while original files, photographs, captions, and source materials are migrated into EASI’s permanent archive. Some historical details, contacts, plans, and roles are dated.

Who We Are · historical EASI site

Founding rationale, STAR history, training expectations, and the original shelter/service concept.

EASI Bylaws · 2022 public copy

Historical public copy of EASI’s governing bylaws. Current governance documents should be confirmed by the board before relying on this copy.

EASI Corporate Business Plan · historical

Prior shelter, advocacy, case-management, restorative-justice, education, staffing, and evaluation concepts. Historical planning — not a current operating commitment.

EASI community events · historical site

A sample of prior public education, awareness, volunteer, and fundraising activity.

Practice into training

Research should become something people can use.

EASI is translating field knowledge into presentations, facility training, family education, volunteer preparation, and elder-justice practice modules.

Explore training

Growing collection