A flagship moment on this theme
"I want to instill pride within our community to be prideful of the heritage that they come from. If you're from Hawaii, there is a lot of intergenerational trauma associated with our language, with practicing our culture."
This is Ka'ehu's mission stated plainly and in direct sequence — pride as the goal, intergenerational trauma as the obstacle. It cuts right to what makes this organization different from a conservation nonprofit.
Where this is a central topic
2 episodes
Mental Health Access, Telehealth Policy & the Future of Behavioral Health Care with Andrea Fox
Connecting housing, income, and social service data to behavioral health care faces two structural barriers: siloed and technically fragmented data exchanges, and complex patient privacy and consent requirements that behavioral health was largely excluded from solving under HITECH-era funding.
Reconnecting with Hawaiian Heritage | Lohelani Furtardo-Gaspar of Ka`ehu
The episode centers on how the Hawaiian language ban created intergenerational shame that Ka'ehu's programming is explicitly designed to address, tracing a historical policy decision directly to the hesitation participants carry through the door today.
Where this comes up substantially
2 episodes
Why Value-Based Care Can Feel So Hard with Josephine Wilton, Pt. 2
Josephine discusses how SDOH screening payment is capped at one screening per year despite patient needs changing constantly, and why the low reimbursement creates a data gap that makes the problem invisible to health plans.
Strategy, Not Panic with Jeremy Zug
Geography, socioeconomic status, and client life circumstances were used to explain why measuring mental health outcomes for value-based reimbursement is structurally harder than measuring outcomes in medical care, and why that creates a perverse incentive problem for providers in underserved areas.
