Mālama ‘Ohana Working Group
Mālama ʻOhana working group is housed in the Office of Wellness and Resilience.
The working group is tasked to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing child welfare system.
The working group will hold listening sessions throughout the state to bring community voice and community partners together to improve and transform the child welfare system.
Listening and collaborating is critical for transformation that will benefit some of our most vulnerable families and children.
Upcoming Meetings Dates
We invite you to calendar our upcoming meeting dates. For the zoom link, please visit this site and the public calendar in proximity to the meeting date.
Click here for public meeting calendar
Upcoming MOWG Meetings on the following Mondays from 1 - 3:30pm:
May 20
June 17
July 15
August 19
September 16
October 28
November 25
Meeting Announcement
Please join us at our Monthly Zoom Meetings. Meeting date, time, and agenda will be posted here for your review.
We look forward to seeing you.
Next Monthly Zoom Meeting:
Monday (5/20/24) from 1 - 3:30pm
Physical meeting location:
415 S. Beretania St., Room 415
Honolulu, HI 96813
Meeting Minutes & Recordings
Thank you for your interest in the work of the Mālama ʻOhana Working Group (MOWG). Below are the approved minutes and recordings from the working groups monthly meetings.
March 2024 Meeting
Minutes from the Mar 2024 meeting
February 2024 Meeting
January 2024 Meeting
December 2023 Meeting
November 2023 Meeting
October 2023 Meeting
September 2023 Meeting
News & Updates
Mālama ʻOhana Working Group
On June 14, 2023, Act 86 formed the Mālama ʻOhana Working Group. To learn more about the work of the working group, please see Act 86 at this link.
Mahalo Nui Loa
With aloha and gratitude to
Kamehameha Schools
Hawaii Community Foundation
Casey Family Programs
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
for their generous support of the Mālama ʻOhana Working Group. Together we are working to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's child welfare system. Holo i mua!
Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR)
The Office of Wellness and Resilience (OWR) is the first of its kind in the nation.
OWR is a good partner for Mālama ʻOhana as the Office is committed to creating a trauma-informed state that will better serve our families, improve community health and wellness outcomes.
The issues of trauma and being trauma effective are at the core of the issues faced by the families and children in the child welfare system, and also by many workers in the system.
The members of the Mālama ʻOhana working group bring together child welfare services and community service organizations with those they serve.
