Office of Language Access

“HUD Community Planning and Development Programs” – Mark Chandler, Director, Community Planning & Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

 

 

 

 

“Working with us Natives from the Micronesian Islands” – Josie Howard, Executive Director, We Are Oceania

 

 

 

 

 

“Compact of Free Association Nations: Geopolitics & Culture” – Sheldon Riklon, M.D., Assistant Professor, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Chair, Micronesian Health Advisory Coalition

 

 

 

“Language Access – Health Literacy 8-14-2015” – Neal A. Palafox, M.D./M.P.H., Professor of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

 

 

 

 

 

“Language Access, Social Justice & Hawaii’s COFA Residents” – Joakim “JoJo” Peter, doctoral candidate College of Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, COFA Community Advocacy Network, Micronesian Health Advisory Coalition, We Are Oceania, Micronesian Advocacy Network, Micronesian United, FAS Empowerment, Nations of Micronesia

 

 

 

 

“Hawai`i’s COFA Communities” – Glory Gervacio Saure, Director of the Honolulu Local Office, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

 

 

 

 

“COFA Migrant Legal Status in the U.S.” – Christina L. Perez, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary,  Office of Minority Health in Region IX, and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health as the Regional Minority Health Consultant

 

 

 

 

“ Understanding the COFA Homelessness Challenge in Hawaii” – Tina A. Takashy, Advocate/Consultant, Devint Micronesia

 

 

 

 

 

“Micronesian Interpreters Training and Challenges” – Barbara Tom, RN/PHN, Chair, Nations of Micronesia Committee

 

 

 

 

 

“Housing First: the City’s Coordinated Approach to Addressing Chronic Homelessness” – Jun Yang, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Housing Office, City and County of Honolulu

 

 

 

 

“An Overview of the Hawaii State Seal of Biliteracy” – Dina R. Yoshimi, Ph.D., Director, Hawaiʻi Language Roadmap Initiative, and Associate Professor, College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa