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The Talk-Story presentation will share the Pili Na Ha or Four Connection Framework developed through a community health center in Hawaii and how it has become a guiding framework in urban youth programming in Honolulu. The presentation will share the intentions, impacts and method in which a Hawaiian indigenous framework for health can inspire program activities that center on post-traumatic growth and resiliency. In addition, how do we pass on stories that can heal, evoke and provoke resiliency? We invite you to come, listen and share stories in our brief time together.

As we collectively seek to address the overlapping health, economic, and racial justice crises made more evident by COVID-19, social connections can be a powerful tool for healing and rebuilding. We must address the rising rates of social isolation which have profound impacts on health and well-being. These impacts are felt most acutely by people who are marginalized because of their race, income, location, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Isolation is also exacerbated by commonly-experienced disruptive events such as changes in a person’s family, home, or employment status. Social

The Citywide Effort to Address Implicit Bias in School Discipline initiative was launched to reduce the number of black school-aged Houstonians in the criminal justice system by creating an aligned vision of equity in school discipline and juvenile justice policies and practices. This effort, led by organizations including Mental Health America of Greater Houston, Leadership for Educational Equity’s One Houston, Harris County Juvenile Probation, City of Houston’s Mayor’s Office, Bloomberg Associates, and Houston Health Department’s My Brother’s Keeper Houston, launched in October 2019 with a