PPSEAWA International

Children, The Family and Health: What it Takes to Give Children Long Life

The Hawaii Workshop: Families in a Changing World: Challenges to a Healthy Start Agenda

Friday August 21, 1998

8:00-9:00  Registration
9:00-9:15  Introduction and Welcome
9:15-10:15  Panel I: The Effect on Children of the Changing Roles of Women and Men in the Family
Panel Members:
Moderator: Laura Crites, M.A., M.S., Director, Women’s Financial Resource Center, Hawaii
Panelists: Adi Koila Mara-Nailatikau, Lawyer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fiji
Naomi Backes Kamimura, English Instructor/Translator for Toshiba Co. Ltd. Japan
Marcia Hartsock, Director, Hawaii Kids Count; faculty, Center for the Family, University of Hawaii at Manoa
10:15-10:45  Discussion
Break
11:00-11:45  Panel II: Modern Societies’ Pressures on the Well Being of Children
Panel Members:
Moderator: Rik Cederstrom, D.C., Hawaii Panelists: Trinidad Hunt, author, international trainer, President, World Youth Network, Hawaii
Salilo Julia Fo’ifua, community worker, America Samoa
Joyce Yen Feng, Associate Professor, National Taiwan University; Executive Director, Child Welfare League Foundation, Republic of China
11:45-12:15  Discussion
12:30-1:15  Lunch
1:30-2:30  Panel III: Children Getting a Healthy Start
Panel Members:
Moderator: Dr. Viopapa Annandale, M.D., President, PPSEAWA Samoa
Panelists: Gail Breakey, Director, Founder, Healthy Start Program, Hawaii
Jane Bates, social worker, Minnesota, USA
2:30-3:15  Discussion
Break
3:30-4:15  Optional General Discussion in plenary
Evening free

Saturday, August 22,1998

9:00-10:00  Panel IV: Opportunities in the Midst of Change
Panel Members:
Moderator: Eleiteo E. D. P. Walker, OBE, educator, writer, consultant, Cook Islands
Panelists: The Reverend David Kennedy, Retired Headmaster, St. Andrew’s Priory School for Girls, Hawaii
Flora Gil Krisiloff M.B.A., M.N., Family Nurse Practitioner, Public Health Nurse, California
10:20-11:00  Discussion
11:00-11:50  Plenary Session: “What Is It All About? What Do We Know and What are We Prepared To Do”
Facilitator: Joan Chatfield, M.M., Director, Institute for Religion and Social Change, Hawaii
11:50-12:00  Closing Remarks
12:15  PPSEAWA’S 70th Anniversary Luncheon

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