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HIPHI is a non-profit hub for health, bringing community-based organizations, government, academia, foundations and business together to improve the quality of life for the people of Hawai‘i.
Building healthier communities requires collaboration on a variety of issues that impact health, including transportation, education, access to healthy food and economic opportunity. And collaboration is what we do best.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS + TRAININGS
Jun
28
Fri
We invite you to attend the Community Health Worker Leadership Conference 2019 taking place June 28, 2019. This conference will gather community health workers from across the state to build leadership capacity and skills and discuss emerging priorities and topics in the profession.
Jul
12
Fri
Jul 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Free Zoom Webinar
Worry and distress are feelings that many people feel occasionally when faced with potential harm. Others may live with more chronic anxiety about upcoming events in their lives by feeling tension and ongoing nervousness. Anxiety can cause distress and un-ease in dealing with everyday life. Many different ways exist to gain more ease, improve anxious feelings and/or even prevent anxiety.
Learning Objectives:
1. Review the definitions of anxiety, stress, and trauma.
2. Examine the symptoms of anxiety including the impact of anxiety on health and the factors that can affect stress.
3. Identify assessment and screening tools for anxiety with linking referral resources for support and treatment
4. Evaluate the importance of self-care and how to use self-care tips to mediate stress.
Trainer – Mestisa C. Gass, PsyD., Program Director at Mental Health America of Hawaii
Sep
20
Fri
Sep 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Free Zoom Webinar
Use of opioids such as heroin, morphine, and prescription pain relievers has expanded to levels of dependency in many individuals. Several factors contribute to the breadth and complexity of this urgent problem: severe chronic pain, greater use of prescriptions, aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, among others. Updates about treatment, services, solutions, and resources exist here in Hawaii to reduce harm and improve quality of life for all.
Learning Objectives:
1. Review approved medications to treat opioid use disorder.
2. Discuss opioid intervention and updates about management of opioid use disorder.
3. Summarize referral resources and services are available for opioid-dependent clients in Hawaii and how to assist in the coordination of care.
Trainers – Heather Lusk, MSW, Executive Director of Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center and Christina Wang, DNS, Nurse Practitioner at Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center
Nov
13
Wed
Nov 13 – Nov 15 all-day
Get all the details and register at https://2019ncicp.org.
Location: Ala Moana Hotel (map)
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