Suggestion: Use the tag cloud and search functions.
"Our History Our Way" is our motto in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, so we are taking matters into our own hands. These are resources related to the Covid 19 pandemic that we, the UHM ES community, are finding useful.
- The home page can be reached at any time from the top left Our Covid 19 Resources Our Way banner.
- On the home page, this about page is at the top, and the individual entries with short descriptions follow in the order they were added.
- The tags cloud provides a quicker way to get an overview of the site, but the descriptions are missing. It is a good starting point for exploring the site though.
- Sites we have found to be extra-helpful resources are tagged "GEM."
- If you want to see a better view of what has been added recently, use the Daily View, which can be used to keep up with the list as it evolves.
- Searching is by tags only, so it might not be as helpful as the tag cloud.
A list of recovery resources geared toward students, including many alternatives to 12-step approaches.
A Culturally Grounded Collegiate Recovery ʻOhana (family)
Located in The Queen Liliʻuokalani Center for Student Services room 313c at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Mālama Project seeks to provide a space where all students in recovery can feel safe, accepted, understood, and empowered. Cultural sensitivity and congruent practices, grounded in traditional Hawaiian values, are embedded in Mālama Projects practice. Mālama Project embraces all forms of recovery and students at any point in their journey.
Please explore our site to learn more about what we do here at Mālama Project and experience our approach to healing through Hawaiian values.
The Hawaiʻi Life in the Time of COVID-19 Project is designed to engage our Hawaiʻi communities in examining, articulating and sharing the impacts of COVID-19 upon our Hawaiʻi island ways of life, livelihoods, health, families, communities, education, values and outlooks for the future.
Would you like to participate in this project? We welcome your stories or reflections in any form. You can request to be interviewed or self-record your own audio or video oral history; share photos from your journal/diary entries or daily life; or submit poetry, mele, or other art you may be creating while staying at home and practicing social distancing.
We have designed this project so that our community can reflect upon, share, and document their experiences; acknowledge significant events; honor courageous acts and selfless sacrifices; and help to understand social and economic trends as they unfold.
It is important to document this island-wide and global health crisis in real time, track how to effectively and respectfully respond to it, map pathways of recovery, and project lessons on how to prepare and respond to future pandemics.
The Center for Oral History (COH) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is uniquely situated to provide an established and long-term platform for our Hawaiʻi families and communities to record their experiences living and working through this pandemic, drawing upon our cultural values and legacies.
As COVID-19 continues to spread through our community, the economic impacts of the pandemic are hitting people hard. Many residents have lost their income and are facing financial uncertainty. Here at Parents And Children Together (PACT) we are doing our very best serving our keiki and families during this pandemic, to provide the services they need to keep them safe, healthy, and able to withstand the social and economic impacts of the virus.
- Early Childhood Education
- Domestic Violence Prevention & Intervention
- Child Abuse & Neglect Prevention & Treatment
- Behavioral Health Support
- Community & Economic Development
Services for Seniors, housing and homelessness, Families, Children and Youth, Counseling, referrals, Immigration From the Catholic Church
Resources for the safety of families, children, and elders
- Eviction: Notice to Vacate & Landlord Access
- Eviction: Rental Assistance
- Eviction: Illegal Lock-outs and Utility Shut-offs
- Public Housing, Section 8, and Federal Eviction Moratorium
- Who qualifies under the Federal Eviction Moratorium?
- Will my rent be reduced because I lost my job?
- Mortgage Forbearance
- Foreclosure Moratorium
- COVID-19 Impact: FAIR HOUSING Disability
How COVID-19 affects immigrants, with resources to help.
Info for:
- FOOD STAMPS, including help applying
- FOOD ASSISTANCE BY ISLAND
- HOMELESS FOOD RESOURCES
- SENIORS
Your landlord cannot change the locks or otherwise lock you out of your rental unit without a court order, even if you have not paid your rent. A landlord is subject to paying you damages of up to 2 months rent, costs, and attorney fees if the landlord is found to have illegally locked out a tenant.
When the State Court moratorium on evictions ends (as of now May 29), if you cannot pay your rent, then you would be subject to an eviction if the Landlord gives you 5 business days notice of non-payment unless you qualify under the Federal moratorium protection, you would have 30 day notice for non-payment, that cannot be sent until at least July 26, 2020.
Federal Moratorium Protection: The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have created online multifamily property lookup tools to help renters find out if they are protected from evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tools allow renters to determine if the property they live in is included in the eviction moratorium under the CARES Act.
In working towards the vision of building a just society; we want to first help make the legal system a little less intimidating by providing easy to understand legal forms and brochures, including online forms that people can use when they go to court. Second, we help people help themselves by providing legal assistance so people can better know their rights and know how to solve their legal problems. Finally, we try to level the playing field by providing legal representation to those that need it the most.
HSCADV engages communities and organizations to end domestic violence through education, advocacy, and action for social justice. HSCADV is a private, not-for-profit organization and is a statewide partnership of domestic violence programs and shelters.
HSCADV is not a direct service provider. If you are seeking shelter, case management, or legal resources, please go here.
At the National Domestic Violence Hotline, our highly trained expert advocates are available 24/7 to talk confidentially with anyone in the United States who is experiencing domestic violence, seeking resources or information, or questioning unhealthy aspects of their relationship.
The Hotline provides lifesaving tools and immediate support to empower victims and survivors to find safety and live free of abuse. We also provide support to friends and family members who are concerned about a loved one. Resources and help can be found by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). Individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing may use TTY 1-800-787-3224. Additionally, advocates who are Deaf are available 24/7 through the National Deaf Hotline by video phone at 1-855-812-1001, Instant Messenger (DeafHotline) or email (nationaldeafhotline@adwas.org).
If it’s not safe for you to call, or if you don’t feel comfortable doing so, another option for getting direct help is to use our live chat service here on this website. You’ll receive the same one-on-one, real-time, confidential support from a trained advocate as you would on the phone. Chat is available every day from 24/7/365. El chat en español está disponible de 12 p.m. a 6 p.m. Hora Central.
TL;DR: "Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. "Re-opening" is about saving investors. These people are willing to risk workers' lives and shoppers' lives because they believe they do not have a shared microbial destiny with the rest of us. But the vast majority of Americans think re-opening is a bad idea. Ass a result, Texas, Ohio, Iowa all have snitchlines for bosses who want to punish mulish, uncooperative workers who think their job isn't worth their lives. If the won't go back go back to worK, their unemployment will be denied.
Learn hula from home! Youtube playlist by Haku Collective.
Various activities based on Hawaiian culture, resources for artists and musicians, health resources and testing information, ways to donate money to various organizations, and family resources.
Family and general resources for food, financial assistance, and education.
Native Hawaiian Education Council is here to support our NHEP grantees, Native Hawaiian-serving organizations and communities during COVID-19. Please see the resource links below that may help your families, programs, and communities.
Google doc resource guide for Native Hawaiians, including activities for keiki, cultural practices, education, Hawaiian language, and Hawaiian culture-based education.
Student support and resource page for Native Hawaiian students, including updates for summer internships, resources, and a 24/7 hotline.
Upcoming events for Waiwai Collective, near Hawaiian Studies at UH Manoa. As of May 5, 2020, upcoming events include food drives on May 7, 8, 9, and 14.
Resources provided by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for both Native Hawaiian and Hawaii residents.
Disability:IN and our Accessibility Leadership Committee recognize that digital accessibility is crucial to the success of every diversity and inclusion initiative. The sudden switch to remote work due to the global coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital accessibility at work – wherever that work takes place.
Pau Hana Sessions is a live, event series featuring Hawai’i-connected artists.
The COVID-19 pandemic presents unique challenges for people with substance use disorders and in recovery. The following resources may help.Including the following:
- From Dr. Nora Volkow, NIDA Director
- Information for Researchers
- General Guidance
- Recovery Resources
- Guidance for Providers
- Justice System Resources
- Featured News Articles
This coronavirus pandemic will certainly be a difficult time for everyone, but there are reasons why those of us in recovery or those struggling with drug and alcohol use may have a particularly difficult time.
We’re a group of folks who may seem difficult to characterize at first. While we thrive on human interaction, we’re also people who like to isolate, especially when we’re active in our addiction or experiencing uncomfortable feelings. And what’s more uncomfortable than being socially isolated while there’s an illness we don’t know much about impacting people across the globe? These issues of uncertainty around work, school, and family issues – when will we get to go back to school, how will we manage with “social distancing” that may keep us in a house with family members who are not supportive of our recovery? For those still struggling with drugs and alcohol, how will our body react without the substances? Is withdrawal likely? And for everyone – where do we turn to find the support we used to get from AA, NA, Al-anon, other types of recovery meetings, therapists, houses of worship and other resources?
The Hawaiʻi Life in the Time of COVID-19 Project is designed to engage our Hawaiʻi communities in examining, articulating and sharing the impacts of COVID-19 upon our Hawaiʻi island ways of life, livelihoods, health, families, communities, education, values and outlooks for the future.
Here is what housing emailed the residents on May 1st.
No Summer Housing
With the University moving to summer classes fully online for Summer Session 1 and Varied-Term, Student Housing Services will not be providing summer housing for the period May 26- July 5, 2020.
Please note that your spring semester housing contract ends at noon on Saturday, May 16, 2020. If you are unable to move out due to the reasons listed below, you may apply for an exemption to remain in campus housing until noon, June 14, 2020.
- International residents whose visas require they remain in the United States
- International residents unable to return to their home country due to COVID-19 restrictions.
- Residents with medical restrictions which prevent travel.
Documentation to support your request is required. Exemptions requests are NOT guaranteed to be approved.
To apply for extended housing, please complete the following link. To be considered, extension requests must be submitted by 4:30pm on Wednesday, May 6.
Additional conditions for extended housing:
- You will be required to move to a residence hall.
- You will be assessed a nightly rate of $23.25 for a room to yourself.
- Desk services will be limited.
- Meal service will not be available.
- You will be unable to host any guests in extended summer housing except those helping you move-in/out.
The University of Hawaii plans to return to some form of in-person classes this fall, after most of its nearly 50,000 students spent much of the spring semester learning online.
But what exactly those classes will look like, and how the 10-campus system will operate under new guidelines necessary to keep the coronavirus at bay remains to be seen.
Aside from the economic impact of so many of Hawaii’s people losing work because tourism gets shut down, Hawaii’s dependence on tourism has had a much more significant impact—it has emboldened the entitled to use it as their playground and quarantine getaway, with very little regard for its people.
A compiled list of resources and opportunities to help our community
stay connected to the widely held goal of a thriving lāhui
COVID-19 updates from UHM administration
COVID-19 questions and answers from UHM students from the administration.
Resources for UHM students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Free TV service options during COVID-19 lockdown.
Workout ideas at home, as gyms are closed.
A comprehensive set of resources dealing with issues of anxiety during the pandemic. From the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA
One woman's Insights into the effects of the pandemic on her Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).
To provide support in the response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), APA is collecting authoritative and timely resources in this information hub.
First Responders are at risk for developing PTSD
In this time of uncertainty, it is important to recognize the impact on mental health including the potential for developing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Written with Vets in mind, but good counsel for anyone suffering from PTSD During the pandemic.
AA Agnostica is meant to be a helping hand for the alcoholic who reaches out to Alcoholics Anonymous for help and finds that she or he is disturbed by the religious content of many AA meetings.
Call for unity of wellness approaches in dealing with addiction and the present crisis.
Twelve-step approach as undertaken by agnostics and atheists
List of Substance Abuse Treatment Resources in Hawaiʻi
at Ku Aloha Mau we strive to give the island’s best Medically Assisted Treatment possible for our haumana. That is why our diligent staff continuously works hard to advocate, integrate new policy, and stay up to date. Our empathetic, energized, and compassionate counselors, directors, and medical professionals are exceeding the expectations of our clients each day.
We are a peer-led movement and community that is unified by our trust in the potential of each of us to recover and find freedom from the suffering of addiction. We believe that recovery means empowerment, and we support each other as partners walking the path of recovery together.
Our program uses the Buddhist practices of meditation, self-inquiry, wisdom, compassion, and community as tools for recovery and healing. We believe that recovery is about finding our own inner wisdom and our own path.
Recovery Dharma welcomes anyone who is looking to heal from addiction and addictive behavior, whether it’s caused by substance use or process addictions like codependency, gambling, eating disorders, relationships, technology, or any obsessive or habitual pattern that creates suffering. We’ve found that this Buddhist-inspired path can lead to liberation from the suffering of addiction, and we support you in finding your own path to recovery.
In The Rooms is a free online recovery tool that offers 130 weekly online meetings for those recovering from addiction and related issues. We embrace multiple pathways to recovery, including all 12 Step, Non-12 Step, Wellness and Mental Health modalities.
Virtual Narcotics ANonymous Meetings
LifeRing Secular Recovery is an organization of people who share practical experiences and sobriety support. There are as many ways to live free of drugs and alcohol as there are stories of successful sober people. Many LifeRing members attend other kinds of meetings or recovery programs, and we honor those decisions. Some have had negative experiences in attempting to find help elsewhere, but most people soon find that LifeRing’s emphasis on the positive, practical present-day can turn anger and despair into hope and resolve. LifeRing respectfully embraces what works for each individual.
An Organization of Women, For Women
Women for Sobriety, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women discover a happy New Life in recovery from Substance Use Disorders. Founded in 1975, the WFS New Life Program is based on thirteen Acceptance Statements which encourage emotional and spiritual growth. WFS has certified moderators and chat leaders leading mutual support groups online and in person, as well as phone volunteers available for one-on-one support. Any woman seeking an abstinent New Life is welcome to join WFS, and all expressions of female identity are welcome.
SMART Recovery Online (SROL) is an online community where individuals with addiction, their Family & Friends, and other specialized audiences can interact with SMART Recovery volunteers and each other to aid in overcoming addiction.
Phone line and many additional resources. If you or a loved one is suffering because of addiction, this is a great starting point to find out what is available.
Are you a service worker struggling amidst the coronavirus crisis?
We’re here to help!
During these uncertain times the USBG Foundation strives to be a resource for our bar industry community.
Apply for Aid or leave a tip for Oahu’s displaced restaurant workers. In response to watching restaurants lay off mass amounts of employees across Honolulu, we have decided to band together as a community to support one another. Following the lead of cities around the country, we created a virtual way to tip and support individuals in the restaurant industry. On our web page/ spreadsheet you will find a growing list of Honolulu restaurant professionals (bartenders, servers, hosts, chefs etc.) from your local restaurants who have either currently been laid off due to recent closures or who have had their income dramatically reduced due to COVID-19 and are in need of financial help.
Locals Restaurants, Businesses, and nonprofit Organizations Collaborate to Deliver 35,000+ Free Delicious Meals to Kūpuna Over the Shelter In Place Period and Invite Other Businesses to Join This Effort. Every $500 will be providing 60 meals to our Seniors. Restaurants will create 60 meals per day.
To address the nutritional and economic needs of the Hawai?i community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kupu has launched a free meal distribution program on O?ahu. Each meal is prepared fresh by our Culinary Program housed at the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Ho?okupu Center in Kewalo Basin. Since March 23, Kupu has already delivered thousands of free meals and pantry items to youth and families. Beginning with Waimanalo, the program has now expanded service to Kahalu?u and has mobilized to include additional areas of high need.
Due to public concern about the risk of COVID-19 in public gatherings, Blood Bank of Hawaii is canceling all upcoming blood drives – including on neighbor islands – as of Monday, March 23. As the stewards of Hawaii’s blood supply, however, we must balance the need for public safety with the need to maintain adequate and continuous levels of blood. Meeting both needs requires a bold new approach. Therefore, we created a safe donation environment which complies with the social distancing recommendations while also allowing us to collect the necessary blood to sustain our
community.
The Hawai‘i Resilience Fund was created to rapidly deploy resources to <b>community nonprofits</b> and health care providers who are working on the ground to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Hawai‘i.
HCF is working in close collaboration with state leaders, non-profit organizations, businesses, and philanthropists to get a clear understanding of the quickly-evolving priorities in our community. Grant reviews happen daily using our four-phase approach to resilience, outlined below. If you are a nonprofit in need of funding, please visit our grantee page here.
The economic impacts of COVID-19 on our island community threaten the wellbeing of our most vulnerable families – those who already struggle through poverty and others who are at risk of financial hardship.
We are continuing to provide food, emergency assistance, and basic needs, but we need your support now as more and more of our neighbors look to us for help and hope.
The Salvation Army has a food pantry Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:30 to 2:30 with dry goods and fresh produce (eggs this week!). Address is 296 North Vineyard Blvd.
Hello ES friends and family. The Ah Quon McElrath (AQ) gathering place on George Hall's third floor is such an active and exciting place. Imagine it. Students sit along the ledge waiting for class. Professors leave their doors open and give a smile to anyone passing by. The janitorial staff says hello. A student worker goes on errands. The graduate assistant posts up a new event flyer; it's an 'AWAkea. Don't you miss that community feel? Well, we are moving it online! Over the next couple of weeks the Department of Ethnic Studies will be hosting and posting events here. Be sure to check your email for updates. Also be sure to turn off notifications in forums! Perhaps the best part of the AQ Lounge Online is you don't have to wait for that terribly slow elevator. You do need a UH account to access Laulima though.
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell has extended the city’s stay-at-home order through May 31, but says city parks will reopen Saturday for limited exercise activities.
During this global crisis we all need pathways to calm, clarity and openheartedness. While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crisis, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives. Mindfulness and compassion practices can help us find an inner refuge, and deepen our loving connection with each other. This list of talks and guided meditations will support you through these difficult times.
Co-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy and loving relationships. CoDA has a handy self-evaluation if you are curious.
Due to COVID-19 many meetings are either on hiatus or choosing to meet by video or phone conference. CoDA’s main website has a catalog of online meetings you are welcome to attend. While they continue to update meetings, there has been a lag in posting the new online listings due to the volume of requested changes. CoDA World Services suggests that you first reach out to local contacts asking them for direct information. Here is a list of meetings in Hawaiʻi with contact information if you want to talk to someone here or find an online meeting not listed. For other places, you can just tweak the search.
Telephone and internet service providers in Hawaiʻi have taken the pledge to not terminate service to any residential or small business for 60 days starting March 16. If you are affected, check the link.
Free lunches for kids under 18. Locations and times vary...advance to the second slide for info.
China is an untrustworthy, paranoid, autocratic state with a history of deadly epidemiological coverups (SARS), and it mishandled and lied about the covid crisis early on.
But covid is not a bioweapon. Nor did it escape from a lab.
First responders and healthcare workers, as a small token of our appreciation, stop by a participating McDonald’s from 4/22 - 5/5 for a free Thank You meal.
Play games in real-time: Checkers, Crazy Eights, Euchre, Go Fish, Match Up, Remote Insensitivity, etc.
Kapena performs on Facebook live every weekend.
Almost-daily dance parties for fun and exercise
"Club quarantine" live music
One-time financial assistance to families with at least one Hawaiian Kamali’i (children ages birth to 17 years old).
An app to help prevent loneliness amongst college students.
If you have a federal student loan (such as a Direct or FFEL loan, which are held by the U.S. Department of Education), and are in active repayment, all of your payments are cancelled through September 30, 2020, and you will not accumulate interest during that time. Students should receive notification that their loan payments will be put on hold by April 11, 2020.
All domestic violence shelters in Hawaii are open as usual during COVID-19. Domestic violence victims are NOT required to stay at home during COVID-19 if home s unsafe.
See the list below of the domestic violence shelter hotlines for each island. You can also download these flyers to share with your loved ones or post on social media (Flyer 1, Flyer 2, Flyer 3) (Youʻll find the flyers on this page: https://www.unitehere5.org/covid19resources/?fbclid=IwAR23_5l4L_2fONgQFCHDrNVHcJ3W-A4bjk79qoTYUgl4YTb2139CUQpmrLI#toggle-id-5)
Oahu: 808-266-7233
Hilo: 808-959-8864
Kona: 808-322-7233
Kauai: 808-245-6362
Maui: 808-579-9581
Lanai: 808-563-0216
Molokai: 808-567-6888Updates were made on April 14, 2020 to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relation (DLIR) website to address the concerns of those filing for Unemployment Insurance. Click on “Check Your Claim Status” to find out the status of your claim. This function has been separated out to address the overload issues.
Creative Bug is offering 50 free art classes online from weaving, making slime, drawing, sewing and more
"Letters for Kupuna," which is run by the people behind the website coronavirushawaii.com, was launched on April 13. The idea is to collect 5,000 letters for kupuna, who are isolated during these times, especially if they live alone. They did their first PO Box collection today (4/20/2020), and so far only have 40 letters.
Online events sponsored by UHM Ethnic Studies
Unfortunately, not all elderly in Hawai'i have ‘ohana on island to look out for them during these very difficult times.
Our mission is to connect our kupuna with sponsors; those in our community who are free of COVID-19 symptoms, have not traveled outside of Hawai`i in the last 21 days and are willing to getting groceries, medication and necessary supplies to our kupuna so they can stay home while the COVID-19 outbreak passes.
Lecture series from European cultural studies scholars.
The Hawaii workers center launches on May Day, but the already have a great collection of resources on COVID 19 and work, immigration, getting by and more!
volunteer opportunity for any state workers, including professors and other UH employees with a state ID to help clear the backlog of HI unemployment claims.
Are you in the ones percent? Good news, have we got aid for you! The rest? Meanwhile, it's root hog or die for us! Or bridge liquidity, lol.
Bottom line: The best way for all of us, customers and restaurants alike, to avoid being gouged by those companies is for you to call us on the phone (415-626-0166) and place an order for pick-up. Not that I really expect people to do that... Nobody hates talking on the phone more than I do!
HONOLULU – Mayor Kirk Caldwell today signed Emergency Order No. 2020-07 mandating O‘ahu residents wear non-medical grade face coverings while in public to further limit the transmission and spread of coronavirus.
Every1ne Hawaii, have launched a campaign to spread awareness and best practices regarding managing the spread of COVID-19 in Hawaii. The information campaign is targeted at a younger demographic who will play a critical role in the containment of this global pandemic. Our Mission: #Masks4allHawaii
Huge free library of guided meditations including meditations and music tracks from leading teachers to help you cope with the pressures of COVID-19.