2024 Conference Videos

Kumu for the Opening Chant
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

What Parents Say about Supporting Families Rather than Reporting Them
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

A Journey to Wholeness with the ‘Ohana Center of Excellence
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

Justice and Accountability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases
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

Kamalama Parenting Program – An intersection of Hawaiian and Western practices
Venus Kauʻiokawēkiu Rosete-Medeiros
President & CEO, HALE KIPA, INC.

Closing Plenary Session

Closing Plenary
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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