Marshallese Resources for Hawaii

Marshallese Multilingual Kokua Mau Resources

All documents (PDF files) are in  Marshallese only and are intended for educational purposes to facilitate the discussion of the topics with Hawaii residents with limited English proficiency. The Marshallese Hawaii Advance Directive is the only exception, with a bilingual layout block by block.

Please visit the English background page for more information as well as an English PDF of the translated document.

Advance Directive

Marshallese Hawaii Advance Health Care Directive • English page

Marshallese Hawaii Advance Health Care Directive Information Sheet • English page

POLST for Hawaii

Marshallese POLST Form for Hawaii*** • English page

Marshallese Consumer Guide to POLST • English page

In Depth Resources

Marshallese Questions about CPR • English page

Marshallese Tube Feeding Information • English page


***The Hawaiʻi POLST form was updated in May 2023. We encourage everyone to use the updated version of POLST. If you have the pre-May 2023 version, it remains valid and does not expire. 


As more Marshallese materials become available we may list selected resources from other organizations here.


  • All of our Multilingual Resources including Advance Directives or POLST are available on the Kōkua Mau website at: www.kokuamau.org/languages.
  • Multilingual Key Advance Care Planning Materials in 10 languages (PDF file with list)

We thank the collaborative effort of our sponsors that made this translation project possible.

AlohaCare 

Executive Office on Aging (EOA)

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC

Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) 

Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii 

Ohana Health Plan 

University Health Alliance (UHA

United Healthcare