Kaibigan Ng Lahaina

Mental health services: amin seeks to eliminate barriers in accessing mental health services, providing mental health advocacy and culturally-inclusive therapeutic services at little to no-cost. Utilizing frameworks rooted in filipino epistemologies amin will create culturally affirming spaces that foster community mental health and wellness.

Workforce development: the program will provide educational and workforce training and certification in order to create skill sets that promote a more diverse economy. In addition, it will be a space for cultivating the youth's innate gifts and developing future industry leaders through mentorship and civic engagement.

Cultural education: ili will introduce curriculum and pedagogies that center on conservation, preservation, and good stewardship of land, natural resources and cultural foods that reduce dependence on western food sources. Ili leans into one's indigenous roots, languages, stories, mythologies, and rites and rituals of philippine indigeneity. We will foster a sense of self-worth and self-becoming as a process of decolonization.