Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities

🌺As part of the DD Council’s 5-year strategic plan, we are conducting an important statewide survey to better understand the mental health needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), a mental health diagnosis, or dual diagnosis. Your participation will play a critical role in identifying the unmet behavioral health needs across Hawaii, particularly in both urban and rural areas.

🌺Our goal is to improve the state's behavioral health care system, ensuring it is better equipped to meet and respond to the unique mental health needs of individuals with IDD and other related conditions. This survey is designed for:

✅Adults with IDD, dual diagnoses, or a mental health diagnosis
✅Parents or guardians of children under 18 who have a mental health diagnosis or IDD

🌺We encourage you to share this survey widely within your networks. Your input is vital to making positive changes and addressing the gaps in care.

✅You can complete the survey by using the link below or by scanning the QR code on the attached flyer.
https://ddc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6VW27Glo82d1eUm

Thank you for your participation and support in helping us enhance Hawaii's mental health services for those who need them most. 👍

Crafting a People's Budget, Part One

🌈Are you passionate about Hawaii’s future? Join us for the first of an exciting series of Virtual Meetings dedicated to demystifying Hawaii’s State budget process. Your voice matters, and understanding how our state budget is shaped can help you make a difference!

Date: Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024
Time: 5:00-6:30 PM
Location: ZOOM

What to Expect:
🔍 In-Depth Insights: Learn about the intricacies of the state budget process from experts and policymakers.
💬 Interactive Discussions: Participate in lively Q&A sessions and share your thoughts and ideas.
🤝 Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow residents and local leaders who share your commitment to a better Hawaii.

Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or new to the budget process, this series is your chance to engage, educate yourself, and help shape Hawaii’s future.

Don’t miss out! Secure your spot today and be a part of the conversation that matters.

🔗 Register Now: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqd-2rqzMvHNDR2D5OMbwUlL_aQevpyh4x #/registration

Building Healthy Relationships Together 😄
Online Relationship Training for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

Starts NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This is an online class you take on your own or with a direct support professional or natural support.
(An email address is needed to sign up)

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Send a message to learn more

FREE Oral Health Training for care providers & families of persons with intellectual & developmental disabilities 👍 Come and register!

What are the things we wished school taught us beside tax returns? MEDICARE GUIDANCE! 😳 FREE Zoom workshop on the Basics of Medicare. Come learn the basics of Medicare and get your questions answered. 👍
Date: Monday, August 12, 2024
Time: 9:00 a.m. (HST)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83866752685?pwd=oRQplbjh4iznlG5OKSgf7cGGi2rUis.1

Maui Island save the dates for September 🤩

News Release -
☀️Hawaii's One of 12 States Chosen to Expand Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

☀️Promoting the ABLE in Capable 100 ABLE Accounts Established in Hawai'i

(See below)

Are you in KONA? 🤩✨

Register here: https://autismmomsofkona.com/sensory_festival_2024/

🌺 Are you on the island of MAUI? If so check out this weekends event there Maui Emergency Management Agency Disaster Preparedness Expo. Happening on Saturday, July 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center in Kahului, the community is invited to the Expo that will include various speakers. There will also be multiple booths that will include community resources for disaster and emergency preparedness, along with keiki activities, giveaways, and entertainment. 🌺

Disaster Resilience & Built Environments Strand https://go.hawaii.edu/Fqc
Chairs: Genesis Leong, Daintry Bartoldus, and Tani Kalei Submission Link: go.hawaii.edu/na2

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Build Forward Together: Disaster Resilience & Built Environments

The Build Forward Together motto gives people a sense of belonging and the ability to thrive as a culturally-inclusive society after a disaster. Advocated by people with disabilities, aging and in extreme poverty, this movement aims to build an improved overall quality of life for all. This strand will offer a platform to learn, engage and grow from ideas around built environments (physical infrastructure, digital environments, policy, and social inclusion) created “by us and for us”. We welcome legacy stories, insights, and blueprints for collaboration across sectors aimed at creating a more equitable and resilient world for our future.

Featured topics include:
✔️ Community Planning and Capacity Building – engagement, communications and accessibility, disability decision-making, advocacy, global governance.
✔️ Economics – employment, businesses, workforce development, policy-making.
✔️ Health and Social Services – food, safety, medical, wellbeing.
✔️ Housing – land use, affordable and accessible housing, insurance, independent living.
✔️ Infrastructure Systems – transportation, information and communication technology/internet, facilities.
✔️ Natural and Cultural Resources – disability and Indigenous culture practices, climate justice, local knowledges.

Guiding Questions:
✔️ How do we amplify disability- and diversity-voices in the transformation of disaster resilience & built environments?
✔️ How can the Pac Rim 2025 conference theme be used to bridge academia, research, practice, and advocacy?
✔️ What ways can we “Build Forward Together” to avoid rebuilding and going back to inequitable practices before a disaster?

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40th Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity
Tuesday, April 15 - Wednesday, April 16, 2024, HST
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi [in-person with virtual options]
is organized by the Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Contact: https://pacrim.coe.hawaii.edu/contact-us-2025/

🌈Save your Dates for your islands😎and stay tuned for more information🌺

University of Hawai’i
Enroll in Maui Fires Health Impact Study, Learn How the Fires Affected You

https://www.youtube.com/live/EYsDx5ogzLc
Take a peek at YouTube for those that couldn't make it! 😃🌴

White House Olmstead 25th Anniversary Observance On Tuesday, 6/18 at 1:45 PM ET, the White House Office of Public Engagement will host disability advocates from around the country to celebrate the 25th anni...

Aloha Hawaii Folks 🌺 We need your support!
Please share with your networks

It is EXTREMELY important that we get as many people to attend this event virtually as we can to represent Hawaii Statewide!!!! 🌺

This Tuesday, 18 June 2024, NACDD and DD Councils will play an integral role in The White House’s 25th Anniversary Olmstead celebration. (See attached/pasted screenshot) A dozen DD Councils will be represented at the event in-person, and three council members will be speakers. NACDD will be there to represent all of the Councils. And, most importantly, people with IDD are centered at the event – holding six of the 11 speaking elements of the event.

This celebration will be open for the public to attend virtually. Our National has been working closely with the White House on the event. We ask that you all please get this out to your networks. We want as many people as possible to attend, not only our DD council or disability circles. This is not about politics, and it is not just for ‘people who do disability stuff’. Olmstead is all about community, and we hope to get all sorts of members of the community to attend. Real people will be talking about their real lives, and we want everyone to understand what Olmstead is and means to us, and – because having people with disabilities living in the community s god for the WHOLE community – we want people outside of disability circles to understand that Olmstead is good for them. Please, tell you family, friends, neighbors to attend this event. Again, it takes place this Tuesday, 18 June at 7:45am Hawaii Time.

It would be wonderful for the White House to see that Hawaii, the NACDD and the DD Councils can really turn out the folks! We want them to see that we can get people to show up for what matters to us. Please help us make this happen!

People MUST register for the White House event in order to attend virtually. Here is the link to register:
https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_CnGD53gbT_aMRrKeG-RrOQ

Once registered, a Zoom link to join the event will be sent out.
Webinar participants will be able to join the event from 7:45 AM- 9:00 AM

https://conta.cc/4cmtlNC Handi-Van Performance Reports, Oahu Adult Dental Health Services Applications, Information on Absentee Voting and more 🌺

Hawaii DDC News and Updates - June 2024 👍 Handi-van, Dental services, and more Hawaii DDC ☀️ News & Updates JUNE 2024 Oahu Transit Services, Inc. Paratransit Services Monthly Performance Report April 2024 Fixed Route - FY 04-24 Performance.pdf Department of Transportation Servi

Second Annual 2024 Summer Behavior Conference
Register here: https://2024behaviorconference.sched.com/

MAIN CONFERENCE SESSIONS
TUESDAY, JULY 16 & 17

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
THURSDAY, JULY 18 & 19

Office Of Elections Hawaii Votes explainer clip with ASL 🌺

Hawaii Elections Explained 2024 (ASL) - State of Hawaii, Office of Elections

🤩Planning for the Future: Transition Informational Virtual Open House - RSVP 🌺
The virtual open house will focus on transition and planning for the future!

🌺WHEN: MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2024
🌺TIME: 5:00 PM-7:30 PM
🌺PARTICIPANTS: Parents/caregivers of students with disabilities; Special Education Department Heads, Teachers and Students; Student Services and Transition Coordinators
🌺PRESENTERS:
-Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
-Department of Developmental Disabilities (DOH)
-Center on Disability Studies (Benefits Planning)
-State Council on Developmental Disabilities
-Windward CC Trio
-MedQUEST
-Laniakila
-Acumen

HAWAII CHILD WELLNESS INCENTIVE PILOT PROGRAM (HCWIP) APPLICATION
“Keeping Our Growing Keiki Healthy”
The Hawaii Child Wellness Incentive Pilot program (HCWIP) seeks to ensure the health of children in Hawaii, including early detection of potential illnesses. This program awards a $50.00 gift card to any parent who is a Med-QUEST member for one completed well-child examination per child, per year. The child does not need to be a Med-QUEST member.
You can download the PDF here https://medquest.hawaii.gov/content/dam/medquest/hawaiicwip/DHS%201193%20(07.2023)%20Form%20and%20Instructions%20FILLABLE.pdf

https://conta.cc/3UaEniW Aloha all! 👁👄👁 Come check out all the events for April and May 😆👍

Hawaii DDC News and Updates - April and May 2024 Events 👍 Multiple Events Coming up! Hawaii DDC ☀️ News & Updates APRIL/MAY 2024 Alternatives to Guardianship: Supported Decision Making The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center on Disability Studies proudly

🌺Family Skills Day on April 5 🌞 Join to learn more about dementia

🤙🌺April 2, 2024 sign waving flyer for Sexual Assault Awareness month. Feel free to share and participate on your island! 🌺🌈

https://conta.cc/4cu87OL Aloha Everyone 🥰 April and May we have multiple events going on! ABLE Accounts webinar in early April, Disability Studies webinar, 2024 SPIN conference, and Maui Ocean Center Sensory Satuday mid April, Special Needs Symposium in early May 📅 Make sure not to miss signing up for them!

Hawaii DDC News and Updates - March - April 2024 👍 Multiple Events Coming up! Hawaii DDC ☀️ News & Updates MARCH/APRIL 2024 ABLE Accounts and Social Security Benefits: Representative Payees, Reporting and More You are invited to attend a special webi

📣UPCOMING ABLE WEBINAR📣
Thursday, April 4, 2024 @ 07:00 AM in HAWAII Time🌴

Social Security Benefits: Representative Payees, Reporting & More
You are invited to attend a special webinar to hear from ABLE state program leaders and Social Security Administration (SSA) experts. During this webinar of the ABLE Savings Plans Network (ASPN), participants will be provided with the following information: overview of ABLE accounts; Social Security Disability Benefits (SSI, SSDI, CDB, DWB) and ABLE accounts; Income/Asset Tests and ABLE accounts; Reporting ABLE information to SSA; Representative Payees managing ABLE accounts; and Resources on SSA benefits and ABLE accounts.

Zoom Registration event URL: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jG6wIQ9bQAyekNNVj3dWig #/registration

ABLE today website event URL: https://www.abletoday.org/webinar-home

Who will benefit from this webinar? People with disabilities, their family members and legal/financial representatives, SSA Representative Payees (individuals and organizations), SSA field office staff and leadership, disability advocacy and service organizations, and state ABLE program administrators.

Please share this invitation throughout your community to help us spread the word about ABLE accounts.

For all our friends on Maui, this is at Maui Ocean Center 🤩 Check it out! 🐠🐟🌺🐠🐟 In celebration of Autism Acceptance Month, Maui Ocean Center is extending complimentary General Admission tickets to persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder or other Developmental Disabilities and up to 5 members of their ʻohana (family) Register here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sensory-friendly-saturday-at-maui-ocean-center-tickets-859753484817?aff=oddtdtcreator