Our Projects

Hawai‘i State Governor’s Office of Wellness and Resilience (Chertavian, Okamura, Palafu, Pascual, Primack)
  • Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration Maui Wildfires Supplemental Funding (5 H79 SM082961-04)
  • Estimated Completion Date: February 2025

This one-year pilot project will support the Office of Wellness and Resilience in implementing and evaluating an ecological momentary assessment wellness app for behavioral health workers following the tragic August 2023 Maui wildfires. Our team will (a) participate in piloting and training of the wellness app, (b) develop a process for data use in supervision, (c) provide implementation recommendations based on user-data, and (d) evaluate the effectiveness of the wellness app in reducing burnout and vicarious trauma.

E Ola Koa: Hoʻouna Pono Implementation (Okamura, Carreira-Ching, Goshgarian-Miller, Liu, Palafu, Pascual)
  • Funder: National Institute on Drug Abuse (DP1 DA016311; L60 DA059132), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54 GM138062)
  • Estimated Completion Date: June 2029

The Hoʻouna Pono curriculum is a culturally grounded, teacher delivered, substance use prevention intervention for middle school youth. Hoʻouna Pono was developed on Hawaiʻi Island and is being updated for vape use by our partners at the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center. Our E Ola Koa project, in partnership with the Hawai‘i Department of Education and Compassionate Ko'olau, will integrate innovation tournaments and ecological momentary assessment to create community-led implementation strategies to spread Ho‘ouna Pono to the Windward District of O‘ahu.

Quality Care Initiative Program Evaluation (Chertavian, Okamura, Pascual, Palafu, Primack)
  • Funder: Quality Care Initiative 
  • Estimated Completion Date: Ongoing

The Baker Center Implementation Research Division and Quality Care Initiative partner with collaborators at the University of Oregon and University of Iowa to explore learning collaborative implementation outcomes and effectiveness. Our goal is to synthesize agency, therapist, and youth outcome variables across implementation initiatives across the United States to answer multilevel questions around youth evidence-based practice implementation.