Leader training for caregiving classes offered
Leader training for caregiving classes offered
Hawaii Community Caregiver Network is sponsoring a two-day class leader training workshop on Powerful Tools for Caregivers. The workshop will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Regency at Hualalai, 75-181 Hualalai Road in Kailua-Kona.
The workshop is designed to train individuals to become volunteer class leaders to co-lead Powerful Tools for Caregivers classes in their communities. Participants must be Hawaii residents who will agree to co-lead two class series for family caregivers within a year. Registration is limited to 10 participants and advance registration is required. To register: Ralph Harrison, 464-2476, cmc1ralph@gmail.com.
Based on a self-Management Program developed at Stanford University, Powerful Tools for Caregivers has helped more than 80,000 family caregivers nationwide develop self-care techniques to manage the stress associated with caring for someone with a chronic disease.
Info: powerfultoolsforcaregivers.org.
Play recounts signing of Kue petition in 1897
“Ka Lei Maile Alii – The Queen’s Women,” a celebrated one-act play recounting a now famous meeting in Hilo in 1897 regarding the historically significant Kue petition, will be presented as a staged reading Thursday, Jan. 14 at Kahilu Town Hall in Waimea.
Waimea residents dressed in period clothing of the late 1800s will take on roles in the play, which will be presented from 9 to 10 a.m., 10 to 11 a.m., 11 a.m. to noon, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m and at 6 p.m.
The program is free.
The Kue petition, discovered in the National Archives of the Library of Congress in 1997 and returned to Hawaii by Noenoe Silva, revealed what had been virtually forgotten, that more than 90 percent of the native Hawaiians living at the time signed the petition protesting annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
The play is based on a newspaper article written at that time by the late Miriam Michelson from San Francisco who attended the auspicious 1897 meeting in Hilo. The play, written by Didi Lee Kawai, conveys what it was like to participate in the signing of the Kue petition.
Attendees are invited to dress in period clothing of the 1800s.
ADHD parent workshop to be held in Waimea
Hawaii Learning Resource partners with Assets School to provide a free parent education workshop on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 16, at Kanu o ka Aina New Century Public Charter School, 64-1043 Hiiaka St. in Waimea.
The workshop will be presented by Peggy Brandt, senior counselor at Assets School, an independent school for gifted and dyslexic students on Oahu.
Participants will learn the basics of what parents of children with ADHD need to know. It will cover the latest understanding of ADD and ADHD and practical application of these concepts in the real world of parenting, from homework to social situation. All parents of elementary and middle school age children are welcome to attend.
Register: www.hawaiilearningresource.org, info@hawaiilearningresource.org or 885-9318.