From: Poka Laenui <plaenui@hawaiianperspectives.org>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 2:47 PM
Subject: Article with mention of Hale Na`au Pono
To: Poha Sonoda-Burgess <pohaokalani@gmail.com>, Puanani Burgess <puanani.burgess@gmail.com>, Joe Gomes <jegomes@lycos.com>, Palama Lee <palama@nhhsp.org>, Ann & Ken Yabusaki <Geckogroup@cs.com>, Hooipo deCambra <hooipo.decambra@gmail.com>, Alvina Kaopuiki <AlvinaK@wccmhc.org>, Barbie Burgess <barbie@wccmhc.org>, Bernie Downey <Bernie@wccmhc.org>, Carol Evans <Cherokeecarol@netscape.net>, Linda Abuel <Rosalinda.abuel@wccmhc.org>
Aloha. I invite you to a study of the development in Hawaii of culturally based services to treat substance addiction to an article just printed in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse entitled Native Hawaiian culturally based treatment: Considerations and clarifications, by Izaak L. Williams, Pōkā Laenui (Hayden Burgess), George K. Makini, Jr & William C. Rezentes III.
The full article can be read at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FUHUXEPQWQWMCTHUKK4X/full?target=10.1080/15332640.2019.1679315
Much of my participation in the writing of this article was from my experience at Hale Na`au Pono and the work in both the areas of behavioral health and the sub-class of Substance Abuse. I am writing to you calling your attention to the article because each of you have played very important roles in the programs there. Of course, there are many others and you should feel free to circulate the article to them as well.
The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, it aims to understand some of the earliest documented perspectives voiced by Native Hawaiian communities and their appeals for the concept of culturally based treatment. Second, it presents research, practice, and policy considerations with the goal of evolving the base of evidence supporting cultural treatment.
Within the context of Hawai'i and Native Hawaiian history, this paper first contextualizes the emergence and conceptual orientation of culture-based addiction treatment. In discussing substance use disorder treatment in the Hawaiian context, insights and perspectives consider cultural-political trauma a key factor in developing a beneficial framework of practice. This historical background, however, reveals that contemporary culturally based design and service delivery is not aligned with the objective of specifically improving treatment for Native Hawaiians.
Keywords: culturally based interventions, culture, drug use, Hawaiian, treatment, substance use, addiction
My papers cited at in the references were all written from and after my work at HNP. They can be found at the web site Hawaiian Perspectives.org.
Please provide copy to Florene Pell because I have no email address for her. Please make available also, copies for the BOD.
Malama Pono.
Poka Laenui
Executive Director
Hale Na'au Pono
86-226 Farrington Hwy.
Wai'anae, HI 96792
(o) 808 696-4211, (f) 808 696-5516
pohaokalani@wccmhc.org
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