Recognize harm
Notice abuse, coercion, neglect, exploitation, isolation, and risk — including situations that do not look dramatic from the outside.
Training & community education
Elder abuse training deserves a real home.
Education has been part of EASI’s work from the beginning. EASI is turning that history into practical presentations and training for facilities, organizations, schools, faith communities, families, volunteers, and professional partners — with content and practice matched to the audience’s role and responsibility.
Request a presentation or trainingThe EASI approach
EASI training is designed with a restorative and conflict-resolution layer.
EASI does not teach elder abuse as a list of warning signs alone. Participants also practice how to slow conflict down, listen without escalating, preserve the older adult’s voice and choices, recognize power imbalance, and understand when a restorative conversation may help — and when safety, reporting, or outside intervention has to come first.
Reduce escalation
Use practical listening, questioning, boundary, and de-escalation skills for everyday conflict and prevention.
Protect voice & choice
Center the older adult’s goals, dignity, autonomy, culture, and preferences whenever safety and law allow.
Know when to stop
Do not force mediation or family dialogue when fear, coercion, unsafe power dynamics, capacity concerns, or immediate danger make it inappropriate.
Built for the audience
Same mission. Different depth, language, and responsibility.
Community & families
Plain-language prevention, warning signs, difficult family conversations, caregiver stress, financial exploitation, and when to ask for help.
Organizations & facilities
Presentations and staff development tailored to long-term care, community organizations, faith communities, schools, health settings, and other partners.
Volunteers & practitioners
Role preparation for outreach, elder-story interviewing, advocacy-support work, restorative-practice bridging, and community response.
Presentation & training pathways
Start with what people need to know to act safely.
Each topic shows its current status (Available by request, Pilot curriculum, In development, Partner training, or Future offering) and its source. EASI presentations build awareness and role readiness; they are not a legal, professional, licensing, or continuing-education certification.
Community · staff · students
Elder Abuse Awareness
Recognizing common forms of elder abuse, why abuse can remain hidden, barriers to asking for help, and practical next steps.
Available by requestEASI training · tailored presentation
Facilities · faith communities · organizations
Warning Signs & Early Response
Behavioral, financial, relational, and environmental warning signs — with a focus on respectful, non-alarmist response.
Available by requestEASI training · tailored presentation
EASI volunteers · interns · project participants
Mandated Reporting — role bridge
Start with the official California training below. The EASI bridge then covers how it applies inside an EASI role: boundaries, local pathways, designated contacts, safety escalation, and the difference between reporting and providing ongoing support.
In developmentOfficial / state training, then an EASI role bridge
Families · professionals · community
Financial Exploitation
Common patterns, coercion and undue influence, fraud and scams, family dynamics, documentation, and where specialized help may be needed.
In developmentEASI training
Mediators · facilitators · community leaders
Restorative Elder Justice
Victim-centered restorative principles, voluntariness, safety screening, power imbalance, family/caregiver harm, and when a restorative process is not appropriate.
In developmentEASI training, with partners
Care facilities · service providers · pathway partners
Facility & Partner Readiness
Cross-system roles, referral readiness, elder-centered communication, accessibility, partner coordination, and the practical conditions required for safe handoffs.
Future offeringEASI training
Mandated reporting · official California training
Learn reporting duties from the official source.
EASI does not recreate the state's training. Whether a reporting duty applies to you depends on your role; the official sources, your employer, or your licensing body can answer that — an EASI presentation does not.
Official / state training · California Department of Social Services
Information for Mandated Reporters
CDSS Adult Protective Services information for people who report elder and dependent adult abuse, including its free Mandated Report Online Training in English and Spanish.
Open the CDSS pageOfficial / state training · California Department of Justice
Your Legal Duty — Reporting Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse
The Attorney General’s training resource for mandated reporters under Welfare and Institutions Code section 15630, with its curriculum and trainer materials.
Open the Attorney General pageEASI role bridge · In development
How this applies inside your EASI or Elder Justice Fresno role
After the official training, EASI participants receive a short, role-specific bridge: EASI boundaries, project responsibilities, designated contacts, safety escalation, the referral process, and what to do — and not do — in that role. Role-specific legal questions go to EASI leadership and counsel.
Families & caregivers
Restorative Practices for Families & Caregivers
An accessible introduction to conflict skills, respect, responsibility, repair, boundaries, listening, de-escalation, and the elder-justice question: when can a supported conversation help, and when is outside support safer?
Designed for families, caregiver groups, senior communities, faith communities, care facilities, and organizations.
90 minutesIn development
What people leave with
Slow conflict down before it escalates
Listen for needs, concerns, and choices
Use boundaries without humiliation or coercion
Understand accountability and meaningful repair
Recognize elder-abuse and power-imbalance red flags
Know when to pause and bring in outside support
Learning should match the responsibility someone carries.
A short presentation can build awareness. Sensitive volunteer, reporting, advocacy, or restorative roles require deeper preparation, practice, supervision, and clear organizational authority. EASI keeps those levels distinct so people know what they are prepared — and not prepared — to do.
Bring EASI into your organization.
Facility leaders, schools, churches, professional groups, and community organizations can begin with a short presentation and build toward deeper staff or practitioner preparation as needed.
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