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EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
EUTF Virtual Wellness Fair
When’s the last time you visited the EUTF website? Did you know you can access tools to quit smoking, manage chronic disease, and even get support for your mental and emotional health? EUTF has an ongoing Virtual Wellness Fair page where you can learn about these services and more! Play their version of bingo and be entered into a prize drawing! 
Keynote Speaker: Aunty Puanani Burgess, a process designer and facilitator for Building the Beloved Community, a community-building and conflict transformation process based on bringing people face- to-face for ceremony, storytelling, and healing circles of trust and respect.
This year's theme is "Ka Lamakū Aloha: REignite the Light Within." Lamakū is a large torch made of kukui, and it refers to that torch that we carry within us that lights the way. The conference will focus on ways to reignite our light within to learn the best practices and strategies to support children and youth well-being through interactive workshops, site visits, and hands-on activities.
Preview all the conference workshops and speakers here.
Questions? Contact hawaii4ost@gmail.com
What's Happening in Schools to Support Wellness?
East Hawai’i School Wellness Symposium
School Wellness Leads from the Hilo-Waiakea and the Ka’u-Kea’au-Pahoa Complex Areas gathered on September 14th at the Arc of Hilo to celebrate, learn about, and plan for wellness in the 2023-24 school year. This was the first complex area wellness event since school closures, and participants enjoyed a day of fun activities, new connections, and time to work with their school teams.
Staff responses from the post-event survey:- So fun and resourceful!
- Food was amazing. It is the first PD/fair/training that I haven't felt sleepy.
- Thank you for coordinating the day and for keeping health and wellness a priority for students and staff :)
- Thanks for all the positive energy.
BZP & DOE Partner Up for Student Projects
Leilehua-Mililani-Waialua Complex student council advisors and other staff gathered for a project management workshop provided by Blue Zones Project Hawai’i’s Joslyn Sato. The workshop provided tools and strategies on how project management can be applied to school projects, as student council and other student leadership groups plan activities, events, and other initiatives to drive student engagement at the school.
Bringing Blue Zones Project best practices and strategies around project management allows student leaders to identify, plan, implement, and manage student-led well-being projects. In addition, when projects are well-managed, it can reduce stress that often results from juggling multiple school projects with competing timelines.
Kapi’olani Elementary Hosts Health and Wellness `Ohana Night
New to Kapi’olani Elementary, PCNC Dionice Yamamoto, spearheaded a fabulous family night at the school. “We continue to strive to nurture our students’ hearts and minds,” says Dionice, after a night of good fun and great information on how to keep keiki and ‘ohana healthy.
Pilot Program Launched at Waipahu High
Seeds4Tomorrow has launched a Soil Science program for high school students, called Na Lepo Momona ʻO Hawaii Nei (Fertile soils of Hawaii). Tenth graders at Waipahu High will pilot the program by engaging in a combination of lessons on campus and in field. Students created Winogradsky columns using soil from their campus, soil from the Seeds4Tomorrow fields and a yard in Kailua. These will eventually show the microbial activity in the soil in different parts of the island. 
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