Journal

This Mental Health Awareness Month, every Hawaiʻi resident age 10 and older has free access to an award-winning mental health education program — and it only takes a few minutes to get started. The Creative Coping Toolkit: Angst Program uses...

(L-R: Alan Shintani, General Contractor; Jeanne Ishikawa, Chair of Wahiawa Neighborhood Board; Representative Trish La Chica; Senator Samantha DeCorte; Senate Vice President Michelle N. Kidani; Colette Miyamoto-Kajiwara, Director of Storefront; Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz; Deputy Superintendent Heidi Armstrong, Hawaii...

Attendees from the 2024 Alternative Program Support Services Summer Summit toured the Wahiawa Value Added Product Development Center(WVAPDC). From Left to Right: Colette Kajiwara, Coordinator, High Core/Storefront; Tia L. Roberts Hartsock, Director, Office of Wellness and Resilience; Bill Chen, Vice...

Members of the Office of Wellness and Resilience staff Governor Green for a volunteer day at Hawai‘i Foodbank in late December 2025.

Congratulations to Trina Orimoto, Ph.D., deputy director of the Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR), for being chosen for the 2026 cohort of the American Psychologists Association’s Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology. The program vision is a world with equitable systems...

Governor Green taking a selfie with summit participants. The Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR), recently launched its Learning and Leadership Collaborative at the second-annual Kūpa‘a Maoli Ola, Hawai‘i’s Wellness and Resilience Summit. Governor Green welcomed more than 175 state employees...

Patrick Uchigakiuchi, Director Tia L. R. Hartsock and Sharon Simms speak on a panel at the inaugural Hawai‘i Wellness & Resilience Summit in May 2024. The Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR) held its inaugural Kūpa‘a Mauli Ola, Hawai‘i’s Wellness...

On February 20, Governor Josh Green, M.D., signed an executive order declaring Hawai‘i a trauma-informed state. Becoming a trauma-informed state will help alleviate some of the impacts of trauma, and build resilience in our families, communities, and state workforce. The order invites state...

The Green Administration is prepared to deliver what’s needed for Hawaiʻi. To this effect, the newly created Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR) and its Director, Tia Hartsock, are now in place to tackle some of the greatest challenges facing...