ʻUlu State Disaster Response Cultural Training

Nature is not a disaster. Natural disasters are critical opportunities for community strengthening.
ʻUlu Disaster Response Cultural Training Part 7: Community Mural on Sept. 29
  

Learn cultural ways of addressing pain and disaster preparedness.

  • Learning Objective 1: Participants will edefine the relationships between Ku‘u ‘Āina Aloha: Beloved Land, Beloved Country and the mural it inspired
  • Learning Objective 2: Participants will identify stories of disaster preparedness from Chuuk, Pohnpei, Marshall Islands, and Saipan
  • Learning Objective 3: Participants will identify one way that art provides primary prevention of serious mental illness and substance misuse in response to natural disaster
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Harnessing the Truth

Our Approach

The ‘Ulu Disaster Response Cultural Training Series presents opportunities to connect with Hawaiian values and perspectives on Mauli Ola, optimal health, values that are shared across all cultures that today have been replaced with self-reliance. Through a cultural lens, this series supports participants in recognizing that nature is not a disaster but part of a necessary remedy to signs and symptoms of substance misuse and mental distress that may be exacerbated by the disasters we face in our lives.

ʻUlu DRS Cultural Training

When disaster strikes, how can we prepare to respond in ways that are equitable and culturally safe?

Community Connections

Community Navigators are our first responders when disaster affects access to basic needs

Our Services

Cultural Safety

The ancestral wisdom of breadfruit connects us across Oceania to be prepared

Resources

Search culturally safe resources gathered through the series

Our Collective Vision

When disaster strikes, how can we prepare to respond in ways that are equitable and culturally safe?

Through connection with Community Navigators, subject matter experts, art, pule and story, these trainings are aimed at increasing the capacity of providers, clinicians, and practitioners to recognize social and cultural determinants that may create barriers to mental health and place families, communities and individuals at risk of behavioral health issues such as serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (COD).

Our Resources Database

Search culturally safe resources gathered through the series

Through this series we have connected with over 40 individuals and organizations. Resources shared as well as developed through our trainings are searchable here.

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Our Community

Community Navigators are our first responders when disaster affects access to basic needs

The Māpuna Lab is deeply and honorably indebted to the grace of our Pacific families and each elder, culture bearer, community member, and provider who shared their breath with the inner workings of this project.

Photo shared with permission by Innocenta Sound-Kikku

Our Community

Listen to the stories from our community members

Webinar #3: Housing Security

“Sustain ourselves (1) When breathing in we forget sometimes that the plants breath in before we do and for us to breath (2) Building the hale nowadays, we do not have the natural, native woods like we did in the past”
Kanoa O’Connor

From Our Community Navigators

“Not just prepared for disaster but also for life. There is already existing before the hurricane, this is only a part of what we are trying to offer. Preparing for wellness and respecting one another. The work is difficult and is very possible if we hold each otherʻs hands, pray with one another, and sit with one another.”
Meleana Meyers

On Building Hale

“When building the hale, when touching the hale people touching the hale gives the hale energy”
Kanoa O’Connor

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