Mauliola Keʻehi PARTNERS
HEALING PATHWAYS PARTNERS
Devoting their time to healing our community, healthcare workers often don't have the energy and time to re-energize and heal themselves. Partnering with Queenʻs Medical Center gives doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals an educational and healing experience on our papa (reef).
EMTs and other first responders experience and manage traumatic situations on a daily basis, this crucial role in our society requires mental and physical resilience. Partnering with the City and County of Honolulu allows space and opportunity for these first responders to connect with kūpuna, Honua, and their peers.
The wellbeing of those who serve and protect our communities is crucial for all of our own personal wellbeing and safety. HPD's huakaʻi to Keʻehi allows for personal development for those in the departnment, as well as practical skills to maintain wellbeing on and off the job.
Future public health officials, researchers, and health educators engage in huakaʻi in Keʻehi to learn about Native Hawaiian perspectives on mauliola (wellbeing) and what healthy communities look like in Hawaiʻi. This allows for broader community engagement in public health, inclusion of diverse perspectives in academia, and establishes a practice of maintaining individual mauliola in those who impact commmunity mauliola.
CIIHE's mission is advancing ancestral practices as a means to improve health in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities. Alongside with Mauliola Keʻehi, CIIHE facilitates NHPI education and participation in our program and strengthens our organization.
Educational Partners
Access Surf provides healing and life changing water activities to those with disabilities; focusing on accessability of the ocean to all people. Our partnership with the access surf team enstils traditional knowledge, healing, and a sense of community between our organizations that both aim to change Hawaiʻi's relationship to kai.
Partnering with the DOE has allowed numerous public schools across Honolulu and Oʻahu to experience and embrace traditional education in Hawaiʻi. Haumana (students) are able to have in-field history, science and social-emotional learning sessions through their huakaʻi.
Assets School is the only school in Hawaiʻi specializing in education of haumana with language-based learning differences (LBLD: dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, ect.). Through our program, these haumana are able to learn and heal in engaging and hands-on ways that support their learning styles.
In partnership with Kamehameha schools, Mauliola Keʻehi hosts 2 sessions of 1 week long summer programs each summer. Through these summer programs and other huakaʻi with KS, our future leaders learn to see through a kūpuna lens in regards to their environment, relationships, and individual mauliola.
Kōkua Kalihi Valley (KKV) KVIBE program focuses on cultivating creative spaces for youth in Kalihi valley. Partnering with KVIBE educates and connects Kalihi youth to their ahupuaʻa, and equips them with skills to aid in their social emotional learning and mauliola.
As Polynesian Voyaging Society is based just across the road from Mauliola Keʻehi, our organizations share the home of Mauliola and the mission of perpetuating ʻike kūpuna.
Reef Ecology Partners
Kai connects ʻEwa Limu Project and Mauliola Keʻehi. Partnering with the limu hui has expanded our papa connections throughout Oʻahu. Working together allows us to expand our knowledge in indigenous science & western science, as well as perpetuate the practice of using limu to maintain mauliola.
Understanding the biodiversity and abundance of Keʻehi's papa (reef) is crucial to conserving and protecting it's resources. We partner with UH OPIHI program to engage college students with indigenous science, and establish reciprocal research studies on our papa to benefit scientific knowledge, and our community.