2023 Hoʻoikaika Annual Conference Videos
Opening Plenary Session
Hauʻoli Akaka
Hoa Kūkā Moʻomeheu (Cultural Consultant), Ho‘okahua Cultural Vibrancy Group, Ke Kula ʻo Kamehameha
Opening Protocol
Ekela Kaniaupio-Crozier
Hawaiian Culture Based Education Coordinator, Kamehameha Schools Maui
E Komo Mai – Welcome with Emcees
Michele Navarro Ishiki
Founder | Clinical Director, Piha Wellness and Healing
Paul Tonnessen
Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Maui
Keynote
Noelani Ahia
Executive Director, Maui Medic Healers Hui
Session 1 Breakout
Decolonizing HIV Care in ʻŌiwi Communities
Kekoa Kealoha
Ryan White Admin Manager, Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center
Design for Belonging: ALOHA for All in All We Do
Miki Tomita Okamoto
CEO and Founder, Education Incubator and Mālama Pono Foundation
Reading the Room to Live Pono
Anu Getgen
Kamehameha Schools Behavior Health Manager, Kamehameha Schools Maui
Ekela Kaniaupio-Crozier
Hawaiian Culture Based Education Coordinator, Kamehameha Schools Maui
The Moʻolelo of Wellbeing
Andrea Dias-Machado
Owner and Principal Consultant, Huliau Aloha, LLC
Kimberly Nabarro
Makua Ally/ Parent Partner, EPIC ʻOhana
Meryl Levine
National Director of Parent Partnerships, Children’s Trust Fund Alliance
Christina Romero
Executive Director, Parent Advocates of Transformation and Healing
Session 2 Breakout
Aloha at Home
Kanoe Enos
Co-founder, Lead Partner, ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance
Shelly Tokunaga-May
Consultant, ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance
Getting Lost and Finding Ourselves Again: The ethical imperative of well-being
Mary Jo Barrett
Founder, Center for Contextual Change Consultation
Honoring Our Narrative: Weaving Grief, Culture, and Identity into a Shared Future
Jessica Porte
Consultant / Grief Educator / Trainer, Wayfinder Family Co.
Rebecca Wu
Chief Education Officer / Author / Consultant, Rooster & Hen Resources
Mālama ʻOhana Working Group – Transforming the CWS System
Venus Kauʻiokawēkiu Rosete-Medeiros
President & CEO, HALE KIPA, INC.
Survivor Safety is Community Safety: Enhancing Safety & Supports for Domestic Violence Survivors and Their Children
Vanessa Corwin (she/her)
Program Director, Hawai’i State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Phyllis Raquinio (she/isuna)
Program Assistant, Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Session 3 Breakout
Falahola Kanongataa, MPH
Program Specialist, Papa Ola Lokahi/’Ohana Center of Excellence
Building Foundations of ALOHA in our Personal and Professional Journey
Miki Tomita Okamoto
CEO and Founder, Education Incubator and Mālama Pono Foundation
How to be Pono Working with Youth – HI HOPES
Patricia Chin
HI H.O.P.E.S. Statewide Initiative Manager, EPIC ʻOhana, Inc.
Melissa Mayo
Pono Process Lead/ East Hawaii HI H.O.P.E.S. President, EPIC ‘Ohana Inc.
Is History Repeating Itself – LGB&T Resiliency
Kunane Dreier
Director of Training & Program Development, Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center
Shelly Miyashiro De Mattos
First Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney
Chelsie Takasaki
Victim/Witness Advocate Department of the Prosecuting Attorney County of Maui
Venus Kauʻiokawēkiu Rosete-Medeiros
President & CEO, HALE KIPA, INC.
Closing Plenary Session
Noelani Ahia
Executive Director, Maui Medic Healers Hui
Ekela Kaniaupio-Crozier
Hawaiian Culture Based Education Coordinator, Kamehameha Schools Maui
Kumu for the Closing Chant
Hauʻoli Akaka
Hoa Kūkā Moʻomeheu (Cultural Consultant), Ho‘okahua Cultural Vibrancy Group, Ke Kula ʻo Kamehameha
Emcees
Michele Navarro Ishiki
Founder | Clinical Director, Piha Wellness and Healing
Paul Tonnessen
Friends of the Children’s Justice Center of Maui
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