Webinar #1
Disaster Preparedness
Webinar #1
Disaster Preparedness
Introducing participants to the series, providing a historical and decolonial context on disaster response, and using it to catalyze post-traumatic intergenerational healing.
Participants will:
- Participants will define the relationship between historical trauma and disaster response among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
- Participants will understand a Hawaiian Conceptual Framework for Healing and Post-traumatic Growth among Native Hawaiian Women.
- Participants will identify a strategy for deepening perspectives on “disaster” based on individual perspective and circumstance while identifying clinical signs and symptoms related to trauma, mental illness, and substance misuse.

Guest Speaker Spotlight
Dr. Tammy Martin, PhD MSW
Tammy Kahalaopuna Kahoʻolemana Martin was born and raised on the windward side of O’ahu. She earned her Ph.D in Social Welfare and MSW degree from the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. As a Native Hawaiian female community researcher, she feels a strong kuleana (responsibility) bestowed upon her by kūpuna (elders) and ʻohana (family) to conduct research that will lead to the betterment of Native Hawaiian communities.
Please read Dr. Martin’s article co-authored by Aunty Lynette Kaʻopuiki Paglinawan and Dr. Scott K. Okamoto on “Moving from Darkness to Light“.
Our Training Kits
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are available for this webinar. For more information, please email uludrs@hawaii.edu. Please complete this survey to receive your CEUs:
Emergency Proclamations and Community Resilience in Hawaiʻi (Version 1.0)
The Māpuna Lab
Department of Social Work
Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Mauli Ola: Cultural Context to the ʻUlu DRS State Disaster Response Training (Version 1.2)
Kuʻulei Perreira-Keawekane
The Māpuna Lab
Department of Social Work Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa