Mahope — Ku ‘A’ali’i

The Consortium for Hawai’i Ecological Engineering Education will inspire students from Native Hawaiian communities to achieve socio-economic success by building resilience through culture-based, trauma-informed education and the experience of Hawaiian cultural values and practices with hands-on learning. The communities on the Leeward Coast of O’ahu and Ka’u on the Island of Hawai’i are the most remote and under-resourced populations of Native Hawaiians, lacking access to high-quality, after-school programming and STEM educational opportunities due to legacies of generational poverty and socio-economic inequities. This project will create and deliver an integrated Native Hawaiian trauma-informed care training program to Native Hawaiian-serving faculty and peer mentors and provide in-school resource support for science and math teachers mentoring at-risk youth. Ultimately, this project aims to close the significant math and science achievement gap that impedes Native Hawaiian youth from success in school and life.