Be Inspired!

December 2023. Discussing the future of trauma-informed care in Hawaiʻi, highlighting the importance of restorative justice and community healing.
31:00 – Applying the strategy of trauma-informed care within the child welfare system
Office of Wellness and Resilience
May 2023. Leading an organization of individuals with lived experience who are working to transform child welfare by advocating for kinship care whenever possible
Think of Us
February 2023. 3-step strategy for educators supporting children impacted by social crises and collective traumas
December 2021. Being raised by a family is a basic human right
Family Reunification
August 2018. Blind removals as a strategy for reducing implicit bias in child welfare decisions
Reimagine Child Protection
August 2017. From orphanage to a family-based care model to the Village Hive model – networks of extended family and voluntary kin that protect children and empower families
Village Hive
January 2013. Connecting Fathers and Daughters Wherever They Are – a father-daughter dance for incarcerated dads and their girls
Date with Dad
Daughters Documentary
September 2014. Examining the relationship between childhood trauma and negative lifelong health effects
ACEs