Tagged With "Kahewai Summit"

Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...

At the first annual Kahewai TIC Summit for 0-5 providers, we were blessed with an optional workshop that employed art as an effective strategy for self-care and healing. This article highlights the effectiveness of art and self-care. Feel free to post your artwork or your strategies in using art as a healing tool and/or for your self-care strategies.

Danny, I missed your Kahewai TIC Summit when is the next one. I heard it was really good. Cheri

Aloha Kākou! The Kahewai Summit was a success last year and we are pleased to announce the 2nd annual virtual conference! Please spread the word and let me know if you are interested in presenting or if you have a speaker you would like to recommend. The theme of our conference this year is, "Hā" or "breath." We will have a wide range of speakers from Kānaka perspectives as well as western sciences that will speak to the "breath of life." Here is a link to the "Save the Date" info- please...

Aloha, We are having our 2nd Annual "Kahewai 0-5 Wellness and Resilience Summit on Thursday April This conference is for the 0-5 providers (Family Childcare, Family Child Interactive Learning, Home Visiting and Center-based care). Our theme this year is, "Hā" or "breath." The pandemic has been challenging for all of us, this virtual conference will focus on three types of breath: - "Catching our breath." We have been through the "COVID" sprints and we simply need to breath to restore...

We are thrilled to announce the 3rd annual Kahewai Summit TIC conference for 0-5 providers! Please "Save the Date" for our 4/21-22 /2023 virtual gathering. Last year, over 400 people attending the Kahewai Summit. Are you interested in presenting? In the embedded link, there is a "call for proposals" please share this information to your fellow providers or contact speakers that youʻve enjoyed in the past and want to see present. There are three Summit tracks, each aligned to the audience...

Aloha- registration is open for the 3rd annual Kahewai TIC Summit (April 20-21, 2023) a virtual summit that equips community members with trauma-informed care strategies that strive to build wellness and resilience. The conference is generously sponsored by the Department of Health and the Hawai'i Community Foundation. Kahewai is also fortunate to have the amazing staff at HAIS (Hawai'i Association of Independent Schools) to once again run the summit. Please sign up and PACES Connection...

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, educators found themselves in a frenzy for professional development, particularly in Trauma-Informed Care (TIC), as fear, predictions, and anxiety spread by either misinformation (or disinformation). Since 2020, many educators and social service agencies have embraced the concept of being 'trauma-informed.' I had the privilege of being part of a remarkable team of advocates and agencies that successfully lobbied for Hawaiʻi to become a 'TIC State' through...

Aloha, we are excited to announce that the second annual “Kahewai Live” conference is scheduled for September 20, 2024, at the Nani Mau Gardens . The conference is sponsored by the YWCA of Hawaiʻi Island , the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health , and the Hawaiʻi Community Foundationʻs Promising Minds Program . The Kahewai Conference began as a virtual gathering for 0-5 providers to provide trauma-informed care professional development and trauma-responsive strategies. In recent years, we...