Kapi‘olani CC offers free webinar series

The impact of COVID-19 on domestic violence in Hawai‘i and free mental health resources to cope

Kapiʻolani Community College
Contact:
Louise Yamamoto, (808) 734-9513
Director, College Relations, Office for College and Community Relations
Posted: Jul 6, 2020


The word for community or neighborhood in Hawaiian is kaiāulu, and as part of its name, Kapi‘olani Community College embraces the meaning of community.

Kapi‘olani CC’s Office of Continuing Education created the Kaiāulu Webinar Series as a resource for extended education in the community. Each webinar includes an expert from the community who will discuss various topics such as culinary and culture, cybersecurity, domestic violence, mental health and business resiliency, just to name a few. All webinars are free to the public and are offered online via Zoom.

On July 7, 2020 at 2 p.m. (HST), Kapi‘olani CC will host a panel of experts from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence who will discuss issues related to domestic violence during this time of COVID-19 along with resources available to the community. The "Impact of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence in Hawai‘i and Free Mental Health Resources to Cope" webinar will also include a discussion on Hawaiʻi UTelehealth, a behavioral health resource that a variety of providers are partnering to offer a first free visit with possible free follow up visits as well.

Panelists

Paxon Chang is a campus advocate at the UH Mānoa, where she works toward fostering a more equitable learning environment through education, counseling and community organizing. With a background in prevention work and micro-level intervention, Chang supports UH students, faculty and staff in navigating experiences with sexual harassment, sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking. She graduated from Brown University with a dual degree in sociology and indigenous history and is currently pursuing her master’s of social work at the University of Southern California.

Chelsey Stewart is the member services associate at the Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She has years of case management experience through her time as a campus survivor advocate and helpline specialist at the Domestic Violence Action Center and was the fair housing investigation coordinator at the Legal Aid Society of Hawai‘i. Stewart has also worked for the ACLU in Hawai‘i and Washington states in addition to the State of Hawai‘i Department of Attorney General’s Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division. She earned her BS in criminology and criminal justice and MS in criminal justice administration from Chaminade University of Honolulu.

Kelley Withy, MD, PhD, is professor of family medicine and community health at the UH Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine and the director of the Hawai‘i/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center (AHEC). She received her MD degree from the University of California at San Diego, performed her family medicine residency at Long Beach Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program and received her PhD in biomedical sciences at UH Mānoa. Her research focuses on health workforce assessment and health careers development. She performs the physician workforce assessment for Hawaiʻi and has multiple grants to recruit and retain healthcare workers including an ongoing mentoring program for 2,000 pre-health students a year, interprofessional rural training for 200 students a year, ongoing collaborative networking experiences for providers and administers the Hawai‘i State Loan Repayment Program.

For more information about this webinar or to register, go to http://go.hawaii.edu/ACb.

For more information about the Kaiāulu Webinar Series, please visit https://continuinged.kapiolani.hawaii.edu/kaiaulu-webinar-series/ or contact Melissa Nakamura at mchar@hawaii.edu.