Our Projects

Mohala na pua ui i ka wai o na kuahiwi: Hoʻouna Pono Implementation (Okamura, Carreira-Ching, Goshgarian-Miller, Liu, Palafu, Pascual)
  • Funder: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (H79 SM086278); National Institute on Drug Abuse (DP1 DA016311 terminated 5/31/2025; L60 DA059132), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U54 GM138062)
  • Estimated Completion Date: June 2025

The Mohala Na Pua project leverages the Hoʻouna Pono curriculum, a culturally grounded, teacher delivered, substance use prevention intervention for middle school youth. Hoʻouna Pono was developed on Hawaiʻi Island and has being updated for e-cigarrette/vape use by our partners at the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center. The Mohala Na Pua project, in partnership with the Hawai‘i Department of Education and Compassionate Ko'olau, integrates design sprints to create community-led implementation strategies to spread Ho‘ouna Pono to the Windward District of O‘ahu.

Quality Care Initiative Program Evaluation (Chertavian, Okamura, Pascual, Palafu, Primack)
  • Funder: Quality Care Initiative 
  • Estimated Completion Date: Ongoing
  • University Partners: University of Oregon (Park), University of Iowa (Zhang), University of Pennsylvania (Wolk), Loma Linda University (Boustani), Arizona State University (Kim)

The Baker Center Implementation Research Division and Quality Care Initiative partner with collaborators at the University of Oregon and University of Iowa to explore learning collaborative implementation outcomes and effectiveness. Our goal is to synthesize agency, therapist, and youth outcome variables across implementation initiatives across the United States to answer multilevel questions around youth evidence-based practice implementation.