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.