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.
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.
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
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