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Hawaii’s Office of Wellness and Resilience details role in Maui recovery, data and staffing plans
Summary
Tia Hartsock, director of Hawaii’s Office of Wellness and Resilience, described how the office — created by 2022 session law and staffed with six positions — coordinated crisis mental-health response after the Maui fires, piloted culturally informed interventions and plans to transfer administratively to the state Department of Human Services in 2025.
Tia Hartsock, director of Hawaii’s Office of Wellness and Resilience, told a Resilient Tennessee Collaborative webinar that the office was “established in statute last year” and staffed with six positions to lead statewide work on trauma-informed care and resilience.
Hartsock said the office was appointed after an administration change and “we got fully staffed with 6 staff in June” before the August wildfires. She described an intense, ongoing role in Maui’s response: “we had about 10,000 people plus that were severely traumatized. We have about 100 deaths that have been officially, accounted for in the last, on on August 8th,” and said staff coordinated mental-health response and…
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