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, in the Office of the Governor. The working group will develop and make recommendations for a framework for peer support specialists in the state. Working group members consist of several state departments, community partners, and peers 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.R. Hartsock, director of the Office of Wellness and Resilience, serves as chair. The working group’s first meeting was held in September 2024 and it will continue to meet monthly through June 2025; tentative dates are below.
All meetings are open to the public and are subject to 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.
- Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
- Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
- Monday, Nov. 25, 2024
- Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024
- Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025
- Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025
- Monday, March 24, 2025
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Meeting Materials
All meeting materials, including meeting recordings and handouts, are available by year and then month:
2025
January Meeting (Jan. 22, 2025)
2024
December Meeting (Dec. 18, 2024):
November Meeting (Nov. 25, 2024):
October Meeting (Oct. 23, 2024):
September Meeting (Sept. 25, 2024):