About – (IPPW)
The Integrated Primary Prevention Workforce (IPPW) strengthens protective factors and reduces risk factors that can lead to harmful behaviors within individuals, relationships, and organizations through policies, programs, and practices.
Primary prevention focuses on stopping self-directed harm (e.g. suicide and substance misuse) and harmful acts like sexual assault, domestic violence and workplace harassment before they occur. The Hawai’i National Guard uses a public health approach which is data-driven and research-based prevention efforts.
Mission Statement: To cultivate change by educating and empowering our service members and families to identify and recognize their strengths and challenges to foster Kīnāʻole by educating on risk and protective factors to implement prevention strategies.
Vision Statement: A culture within Hawai’i National Guard (HING) that prioritizes primary prevention and embodies the spirit of Mālama Pono amongst service members and families, minimizing risk factors and maximizing protective factors.
Key Words:
MĀLAMA PONO: to care for, nurture, consider, give attention, protect and provide.
KĪNĀʻOLE: to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, in the right place, to the right person, for the right reason, with the right feeling, the first time. ALOHA: Aloha-is an expression with many meanings: love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, kindness and even gratitude, commonly used as a greeting or farewell of salutation. It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians, for whom the term is used to define a force that holds together existence. The literal translation of
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