AANHPI Trauma-Informed Care and Other Services: Bridging Community- and Evidence-Based Practices

In August 2024, PHI’s Lotus Project hosted a Hawaii-based workshop to help communities bridge the gap between implementing evidence- and community-based practices in mental health services, particularly for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities.

Speakers were joined by academic researchers, students, government officers, practitioners, community-based mental health practitioners and program directors, helping to connect those who are working to promote culturally competent and grounded trauma-informed care, health and well-being for AANHPI children and families.

Watch the workshop recordings

• Session 1: Healing Through Trauma-Informed Care: Elevating the Role of Peer Support in Our Systems (Panel)
• Session 2: Leveraging Community and Cultural Strengths to Achieve Health Equity for Pasifika
• Session 3: Collaborative Projects
  • 3.1: An Elements-Based Approach for Designing and Advancing Youth Health Service Systems
  • 3.2 The Maui Wildfire Exposure Study
  • 3.3 Challenges and Opportunities – Quality of Life & Workplace Wellness in Hawai‘i
  • 3.4 How American Indian Trauma Focused Practice Can Inform Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Care

Session 1: Healing Through Trauma-Informed Care: Elevating the Role of Peer Support in Our Systems (Panel)

Moderator: Naomi Leipold – Governor’s Office of Wellness and Resilience
Panelists: Asha (Sasha) Autele, Kailene Nihipali Sanchez, and Kimmy Takata

Session 2: Leveraging Community and Cultural Strengths to Achieve Health Equity for Pasifika

Presented by:

• Keawe Kaholokula, Ph.D. | Contact: kaholoku@hawaii.edu

• Kelsie Okamura, Ph.D. (Slides) | Contact: kokamura@jbcc.harvard.edu

Session 3: Collaborative Projects

3.1: An Elements-Based Approach for Designing and Advancing Youth Health Service Systems

• Presented by: Brad Nakamura, Ph.D. | Contact: bradn@hawaii.edu

3.2 The Maui Wildfire Exposure Study

Presented by: Alika Maunakea, Ph.D. | Contact: amaunake@hawaii.edu

3.3 Challenges and Opportunities – Quality of Life & Workplace Wellness in Hawai‘i

Presented by: Trina Orimoto, Ph.D.  | Contact: trinao@hawaii.edu

3.4 How American Indian Trauma Focused Practice can Inform Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Care

Presented by: Cynthia Greywolf, Ph.D., DNP | Contact: cynthiat@hawaii.edu

Originally published by The Lotus Project