Kokua Mau Meeting Sept 2023
2023-09-28 15:00 - 17:00 (Pacific/Honolulu)
Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network.

September 28 at our Kōkua Mau meeting when we will hear updates from Hospice Maui from Melanie Dwyer and about the amazing work of the Kupuna Collective.

Please join us for a chance to hear updates and network. We will be starting with updates from Hospice Maui. Melanie Dwyer, CEO, will be sharing about their experiences in the fire and its aftermath including their plans for the future.

Come hear more about the Kūpuna Collective and the history of what this group did to make sure elders weren’t left behind during the pandemic, what they do now to convene a diversity of organizers across the aging network, and some ongoing collective efforts aimed at ensuring Hawai‘i is a place where our elders not just survive but flourish.

Lindsey Ilagan, Program Manager for Kūpuna Initiatives at the Hawai‘i Public Health Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chapman University, and Kamehameha Schools. She values working with community partners to address drivers of health inequity, particularly among Kānaka ʻŌiwi.

Kiara Bacasen is an AmeriCorps VISTA working for the Kūpuna Collective. She is from Baguio Philippines and San Diego California, and is a graduate of Stanford University. Community based organizing has always been at the core of what she does and she takes any chance to uplift community efforts and community voices wherever they need to go.

Thur Sept 293 – 4:30 pm

Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training
2023-11-11 08:00 - 16:30
This training is offered for nurses, physicians, social workers and other clinicians and focuses on communication skills to improve ACP discussions. The class will review key elements and processes related to ACP, advance directives and POLST development.Course Objectives:

Apply advance care planning resources to promote ACP discussions

Engage the multi-disciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning

Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives including health care power of attorney designation

Implement correct documentation of POLST-CPR, DNAR, full and limited treatment, time-limited trials and comfort care

Promote correct process of ACP documents-access and utilization in your organization

Identify end-of-life options including Hawai‘i requirements on Medical Aid in Dying, Our Care, Our Choice Act

First Insurance Center (FIC) 862 South Beretania StreetHonolulu, HI0800-1630

For CE information please download the PDF flyer

Alternate dates: Aug– Wed 8/2/2023 FIC 970, Nov – Tue 11/7/2023 FIC 970

Registration: HPH employees: Manager’s approval is required prior to registering AND register online through HPH Learning Center (HLC). Type in catalog: Advance Care Planning or POLST; Select course: HPH – Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives and Facilitator Certification.

Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing-education/Contact Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator at 808-535-7874 or via email michelle.cantillo@hawaiipacifichealth.org for any questions.

Palliative Pupus March 2023 hybrid
2024-03-20 17:15 - 18:30
We’d like to invite you to our in person & virtual Palliative Pupus

In March 2023 get together in person again as well!

In March 2024 we switch to hybrid, meaning we will meet in person at Queen’s Conference Center and Zoom for everybody who can not join us physically. After that we will alternate bi-monthly to be on Zoom only and hybrid (in person and zoom).

Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity on zoom and starting this month in person again as well. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues from all over the islands on zoom. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our March 2024 newsletter prior to the meeting.

Palliative Pupus meets in Room 200 on the second floor of the Queen’s Conference Center

Each meeting’s topic is announced in a Kōkua Mau reminder eNewsletter one week prior to the event

More on parking near QCC

$5 validated parking at the QCC. Please make sure you get your sticker.

Park for free at the municipal lot on South Beretania (see map below) or you can feed the meter machine across the street at the DOH (which now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours).

http://goo.gl/maps/PToQ5

Kokua Mau Monthly Meeting March 2024
2024-03-28 14:00 - 16:00
Please join us for our Virtual Monthly Meeting on zoom, to learn, laugh, mingle and network.

Please note that we are meeting at 2pm this month for our presenters on EST

And on March 28, we will have a presentation by the Collective for Radical Death Studies and Association for Death Education and Counseling who approached us to learn more about Hawaiʻi and our unique approach to death, grief, loss and remembrance.

Subscribe to our eNewsletter for the most up-to-date information and zoom log-ins. A recording of many of our meetings are available on our YouTube channel, in case you might have missed it.

Thursday of the month* from 3 to 5 pm (on zoom)

Each month we have updates about events in the community and one or more guest speakers.

Meetings are open to all.

Each month’s topic is announced in our eNewsletter

Palliative Pupus July 2023 hybrid
2024-07-17 17:15 - 18:30
In July 2023 get together in person again as well!

In July: Kaiser will be presenting and we will hear how a palliative care team worked to resolve conflicts over goals of care for a patient with a poor prognosis and without a designated decision-maker.

Since March 2024 we switched to hybrid, meaning we will meet in person at Queen’s Conference Center and Zoom for everybody who can not join us physically. We alternate bi-monthly to be on Zoom only and hybrid (in person and zoom).

Our exciting local bi-monthly networking and clinical education opportunity on zoom and starting this month in person again as well. Come participate in an interactive interdisciplinary story from the cutting edge of hospice and palliative care and mingle with colleagues from all over the islands on zoom. If you are involved with palliative care cases, you are invited. Please tell your colleagues and friends.

The topic and zoom registration link will be announced in our July 2024 newsletter prior to the meeting.

Palliative Pupus meets in Room 200 on the second floor of the Queen’s Conference Center

Each meeting’s topic is announced in a Kōkua Mau reminder eNewsletter one week prior to the event

More on parking near QCC

Park for free at the municipal lot on South Beretania (see map below) or you can feed the meter machine across the street at the DOH (which now has a two hour maximum enforced 24 hours).

http://goo.gl/maps/PToQ5
