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Maui Nui HEAL Coalition Joins the Maui MPO 2023 Commute Challenge

June 26, 2023

Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is hosting the 2023 Commute Challenge, part of a national campaign to promote education and road safety, in August. This campaign brings awareness of the everyday travel behaviors of our community and encourages them to…

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Kaukau 4 Keiki: Filling the Summer Hunger Gap

June 26, 2023

Kaukau 4 Keiki (K4K), a Summer Food Service Program, is back for its sophomore season! K4K provides age-appropriate and locally-sourced meal kits to our keiki who won’t receive meals at school during summer. Thousands of meal kits will be distributed…

MCOH Hosts A Vaccine Clinic At Marshallese Island Dream Lakadrimdrim In Waipahu, O‘ahu.

CBO Grant Highlight: PIDF and MCOH Complete their COVID-19 Projects

June 26, 2023

Since early 2022, HIPHI’s Community Engagement for Health Equity in COVID-19 Prevention and Mitigation Project (“CBO Grant”) has supported the COVID-19 outreach projects of 18 community-based organizations and Federally Qualified Health Centers statewide. The grant is set to end in…

Summer 2023 Updates On Internship And AmeriCorps VISTAs

Summer 2023 Updates on Internship and AmeriCorps VISTAs

June 26, 2023

Our staff would like to acknowledge the AmeriCorps VISTAs and interns for their hard work and contributions to HIPHI and Hawai’i’s public health sector. HIPHI received 53 internship applications between January and June  2023 and mentored 11 interns/volunteers this spring…

Supporting Keiki’s Mental Health

Supporting Keiki’s Mental Health

June 26, 2023

Every May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This year, Keiki Heroes honored National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day by providing families and educators with two new FREE materials that they could use as a resource to help keiki identify their…

Hawaiʻi Was Represented By A Team That Consisted Of (left To Right) Kathleen Corpuz, JoAnn Tsark, Avette Ponce, And May Rose Dela Cruz.

Participation in the Alaska Indigenous Research Program

June 26, 2023

From May 8 to 19, four representatives from HIPHI and the Ola HAWAII Community Engagement Core (CEC) attended the Alaska Indigenous Research Program (AKIRP) at Alaska Pacific University on Denaʻina homeland to discuss community-based participatory research (CBPR) with Indigenous communities.…

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Kūpuna Pride

June 26, 2023

Every year, June marks the national celebration of Pride Month to honor our LGBTQIA+*/MVPFAFF** community. Yet amidst the celebration, hate crimes targeting LGBTQIA+ people and anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation are on the rise, threatening human rights, safety, and dignity. Unjust practices, policies,…

2023 Post-Legislative Session Recap

2023 Post-Legislative Session Recap

June 19, 2023

The 2023 Legislative Session ended in early May under unique circumstances. Several bills needed additional drafting time, including the state budget, and this pushed voting later than normal. The final vote on the budget was on the last day of…