Health Outcomes

Supporting initiatives, leveraging partnerships, engaging in strategies to promote healthy and strong families.

Directional Outcome: Strengthened ‘ōiwi (cultural identity), ea (self-governance), ‘āina momona (healthy lands and people), pilina (relationships), waiwai (shared wealth), ke akua mana (spirituality).

Strategy 3: Advance policies, programs, and practices that strengthen Hawaiian wellbeing, including physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional health.

Strategic Outcomes:

• 3.1. Increase availability of and access to quality, culturally based, and culturally adapted prevention and treatment interventions in ‘ohana, schools, and communities; (E Ola Mau a Mau);
• 3.2. Establish a fully functional, high-quality, culturally adapted, primary Native Hawaiian Health System which coordinates effective wellness activities/programs; (E Ola Mau a Mau);
• 3.3. Decrease the number / percent of Native Hawaiians in jails and prison; and
• 3.4. Increase the number of cases, sites, and processes in which Native Hawaiian burial protection laws (including HRS 6E) are effectively implemented and increase the capacity and resourcing of Island Burial Councils.

Strategy 4: Advance policies, programs and practices that strengthen the health of the ‘āina and mo‘omeheu.

Strategic Outcomes:

• 4.1. Preservation and perpetuation of Hawaiian language, culture, traditions, identity, and sense of lāhui;
• 4.2. Increase Native Hawaiian stewardship and protection of Hawai‘i’s natural resources, cultural sites (wahi pana), and protected areas, including Papahānaumokuākea, that foster connection to ‘āina, ‘ohana, and communities;
• 4.3. Increase restoration of Native Hawaiian cultural sites, landscapes, kulāiwi and traditional food systems;
• 4.4. Increase the number of formal engagements, partnerships, and representation of Native Hawaiians in international arenas and collaborative initiatives with Pacific Island nations and Indigenous communities;
• 4.5. Increase Native Hawaiian voter participation rates and the number and proportion of Native Hawaiians serving in decision-making roles across federal, state, and county government bodies; and
• 4.6. Establish and increase the number of Native Hawaiian data governance policies, agreements, and datasets that are owned, managed, or controlled by Native Hawaiian entities to supportdecision-making and self-determination.