CERENE May Neighborhood News

April was a celebration of Lā Honua and a great month for supporting climate resilience work with CERENE. We did a lot of work promoting sustainability in education, practices on campus, learning about environmental change, and how to better this place we call Home. We appreciate all the connections, partnerships, and friendships we have made over these past months and we hope that we can continue to nourish these relationships in the years to come! While we are still a relatively new organization, we are continuing to build connections with local community members and make sure that we support the network that allows O'ahu to truly be resilient!

Mahalo nui loa,

Christopher Fujimoto and Dr. Miku Lenentine

Cooking up noni-leaf fritters as part of a food resilience demonstration!

Our Resilience Corps Leaders helped present at over 17 neighborhood board meetings in the month of April! They also presented during our online open house and have presented their work at the Undergraduate Research Fair at Kapi'olani Community College! Read more about our awesome team of youth leaders here and watch recordings from their presentations. Keep an eye out for these future leaders in sustainability, resilience and climate change mitigation!

Recently, we had the chance to visit the Voyagers Center and Food Lab at Ka'imuki Middle School. Dr. Miku Lenentine and Chris Fujimoto got to teach nearly 200 students about resilience, what it means to them, to Hawai'i, and about this concept of Community Resilience Hubs. The kids drew their own interpretations of a HUB with their school as the inspiration. It was unique to see how they each designed their theoretical HUB and what they prioritized. We look forward to continuing to work with Ka'imuki Middle School and seeing all that they are accomplishing as true Voyagers of the future!

Lianna Lam, STEM Coordinator and Food Lab Lead at Kaimuki Middle School

(serving up some hot Ulu fries at the Food Lab!)

May 24th, Wednesday

5:30pm to 8:00pm

Register to attend via the following link: http://go.hawaii.edu/kp2

Community Partner: Aunty Nalani Benioni & Alicia Higa, Wai'anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center & ‘Elepaio Social Services

All welcome! Please join us and especially share with neighbors, community leaders, faith-based groups, disaster preparredness groups, subject matter experts and others invested in the Wai'anae Planning Region.

(Share your news and updates with us at cerene15@hawaii.edu so we can share with others)

Please join us for this month's NDPTC Third Thursday webinar series, May 18th from 12-1 PM.

Register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlc-yppzMoGdKMm6uHTvCnB8Qgx2lyPklF. Please share this event with your networks and community members.

Mauli Ola Initiative Events - May 20th

Join in for the Mauli Ola Initiative End of Semester Summit on May 20!

This in-person summit will offer workshops from our experts in the fields of

• Movement and nutrition with Alyssa from Pali Ke Kua Wellness

• Relationship strategies for personal and professional well being with Dr. Kalaniwahine Kaʻahanui

• ʻĀina-based activities with the Mauli Ola Initiative Team

Family, Friends and Keiki are welcome (there will be supervised keiki activities available during the workshops)

Register here! More details in the link and in the flyer below

For our May links and resources, we wanted to share two very important recorded talks that took place this past month. We highly recommend these talks for those interested in deepening their understanding of climate change social justice and equity challenges facing our communities right now.

NDPTC Third Thursday presents Social Vulnerability Index Frameworks by Ms. Lisa Webster, Masters student, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Hawaii's Vulnerability and Equity Framework by Dr. Suwan Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Climate Adaptation, Equity & Justice Insights presented by Dr. Diana Reckien along with the City and County of Honolulu. Presented by UHM Department of Urban and Regional Planning, shared here with special permission. This is a VERY informative talk and helps outline and explain important points of clarity regarding social justice and climate change equity challenges for our times. (Recorded March 31st, 2023)

The Resilience Corps Leadership Award Program is made possible through funding from our generous donors Hawaiian Electric and State Farm.

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