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Keep Showing Up
Keep Showing Up

This video brings voices of parents with lived experience to encourage birth parents currently in the child welfare system, especially those struggling with substance use disorders.

CWS Hawaii Family Service Plan Training
CWS Hawaii Family Service Plan Training

This video is a panel discussion with four birth parents about their experience of receiving their Family Service Plan. They describe what helped or hindered them around its implementation, and share ideas of how that the process can be improved.

For more information about ‘Ohana Conferencing, visit the OC web page:

To request an ‘Ohana Conference to be scheduled, call 808-784-4560 or complete the online request form and someone will contact you.

LEAG (Lived Experience Advisory Group) featured in the August edition of the Family First Hawaii newsletter.

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Contact us

Kristina “Tina” Shibata
Family Wrap Manager

Email: kshibata@epicohana.org
Phone: (808) 284-0280

Parent Partner support for Family Wrap Hawaii

FAMILY WRAP HAWAII

Eligible parents and/or caregivers with an active Child Welfare Services (CWS) case who are participating in Family Wrap Hawaii. (Family Wrap is currently offered on Oahu and Hawaii island)

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SPEAKING ABOUT FAMILY VOICE & INCLUSION

Parent Partners strategically share about their own lived experiences in Child Welfare Services and other State systems as a way to educate, inform, and advocate. All of EPIC `Ohana firmly believes every family has strengths and are entitled to sharing their voice in case planning. Our Parent Partners deliver strong and important messages about parent inclusion, partnership, and empowerment.