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Peer Support Specialists Working Group

Act 88 (Senate Bill 3094) was signed into law by Governor Josh Green, M.D., in June 2024 and established the Peer Support Specialist Working Group within the Office of Wellness and Resilience, housed in the Office of the Governor. The working group is developing and making recommendations for a framework for peer support specialists in the state. Working group members consist of several state departments, community partners, and peer support specialists. In addition to looking at best practices to certifying and credentialing peers, the framework will look at trauma-informed supervision and sustainable funding to support the work of peer support specialists.

Tia L. Roberts Hartsock, director of the Office of Wellness and Resilience, serves as chair. The working group’s first meeting was held in September 2024 and will continue to meet monthly through June 2025; tentative dates are below.

All meetings are open to the public and are subject to Hawai‘i’s open meetings law, also known as Sunshine Law.

For more information, or to be added to the working group’s mailing list, please email [email protected].

To access the Public Meetings Calendar and view the meeting agendas, which are posted six calendar days before the meeting, visit (under “Calendar,” click or search for “Office of Wellness and Resilience”): https://calendar.ehawaii.gov/calendar/.

Tentative Meeting Dates:

Most meetings are on the fourth Wednesday of the month; all meetings are held from 10 a.m. to noon.