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Partnering with St. Francis Healthcare on ALS Caregiver Training

March 10, 2019

ALS awareness, Partners, Service provision, Uncategorized

March 10, 2019, Kailua, HI. By invitation of Maylynn Wong, Manager of the St. Francis Healthcare Family Caregiver Training Programs, Divina Telan Robillard and partners, Shaun and Renee Brewer, presented a two-hour session of “Care and Perspectives: ALS Care” last Saturday, March 2, 9-11 am at Weinberg Bldg. St. Francis Healthcare provides caregiver training to the community for a small fee, on different aspects of caregiving at home. Late last year, Wong, Telan Robillard and Katherine O’Connor discussed offering ALS caregiving…

ALSFH Presents ALS Care and Perspectives to Family Caregivers

February 28, 2019

ALS awareness, Service provision

Kailua, HI, February 28, 2019. At the invitation of Maylynn Wong, St. Francis Healthcare System Manager of Family Caregiver Training Programs, Divina Telan Robillard will present “Living with ALS: Care and Perspectives” to a group of family caregivers in the community. Shawn and Renee Brewer, long time advocates of ALS Residence, will assist in presenting the perspectives part, after Robillard discusses the care portion of the presentation. Two years ago, Robillard and the Brewers started presenting jointly on these aspects…

Hawaii ALS Community Yard Sale This Saturday!

December 13, 2018

ALS awareness, Events, Fundraising Project

December 13, 2018, Kailua, HI. The 11th Annual HI ALS Community Yard Sale celebrates two firsts on Saturday, December 15, 2018. For the first time, the yard sale will be held in wintertime AND organized by the UH JABSOM Department of Communication and Language Disorders graduate students led by Haleigh Smith and Renee Martin. The Department of Communication and Language Disorders (DCLD) trains students in Speech Pathology, a discipline that helps pALS communicate when their speech muscles are affected by…

HiNAMI Recognizes Teaching Volunteers for the 17th Year: ALSFH was there!

November 20, 2018

ALS awareness, Events, News

November 19, 2018, Kailua, HI. Since 2001, Hawaii Nurse Advocates and Mentors, Inc. (HiNAMI) has been offering free review classes to graduates of foreign nursing schools to help them pass the RN-NCLEX licensing examinations. Current teaching and mentoring volunteer staff now include those who have been through these review classes themselves. Founding President Bea Ramos-Razon is the energy and force behind this long-lasting community service that provides opportunities for professional nurses from academe and health care institutions to help swell…

2018 Veteran’s Day at the Natatorium War Memorial: ALSFH was there!

November 20, 2018

ALS awareness, Events, News

November 19, 2018, Kailua, HI. On Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11, 2018, Hawaii celebrated the end of World War I with a whole day series of presentations from 6am at the Waikiki Natatorium. It ended at 8:45 pm with a fireworks immediately after a full orchestra played nostalgia-era standards. Schoen Safotu, Coordinator of the VA Voluntary Services called for volunteers to help at this first ever multi-agency event commemoration of the World War I Centennial. ALSFH President Divina Robillard and…

Bowling Fundraiser Deemed a Success

November 20, 2018

ALS awareness, Events, Fundraising Project, News, Uncategorized

November 20, 2018, Kailua, HI. The first public fundraiser that ALSFH held at the historic Pali Lanes on Saturday, November 10, 2018 in Kailua was described as “successful.” A grateful and smiling ALSFH President Divina Robillard said,”The rest of the board was reluctant at first because of what looked like a lot of work to be done in so little time. And it was work we had never done before! But they eventually came around and it got done!” The…

Please Help Register 500 Bowl-athon Participants!

October 25, 2018

ALS awareness, Events, Fundraising Project

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ALSFH Presents at Leeward CC Filipino-American History Month Panel Discussion

October 25, 2018

ALS awareness, Service provision

October 25, 2018, Kailua, HI. October is traditionally celebrated as Filipino-American History month. For Leeward Community College’s Professor Raymund Liongson, a focus on the Filipino Woman is an appropriate way to understand Filipino-ness. Thus, “Pinay: the Filipina (Women) American Mind, Voice, and Power” was presented on October 18, 2018 to students and staff. UH Professor Emeritus Dr. Virgie Chattergy discussed how the book, “Pinay: The Culture Bearers of the Filipino Diaspora,” she co-edited with Pepi Nieva was organized around Filipino…

Bowl-athon Entry Form Now Available; Pali Lanes Historic Places Nomination Deadline Extended

October 25, 2018

ALS awareness, Events, Fundraising Project

Teams of six or Individual bowl-athon participants can now use the featured form to join the fundraiser at Pali Lanes on Saturday, November 10, 2018. For $600, Teams of Six bowlers can bowl two games on one lane for 2.5 hours, with free shoe rental, and souvenir T-shirts for each bowler. For $70, individual bowlers will be bowling two games, mixed with five other bowlers in one lane, with free shoe rental, and a goodie bag to boot! Early corporate…

Soderholm Mobility First Company Sponsor of Bowling Fundraiser

October 20, 2018

ALS awareness, Fundraising Project, Partners

Soderholm Mobility’ President Denise Soderholm personally emailed her company’s acceptance of ALSFH invitation to be a sponsor of the Bowling fundraiser set for November 10, Saturday at Pali Lanes in Kaliua. Denise Soderholm emailed, “Your ALS Foundation Pali Lanes notice arrived today – and, actually made my day, while I won’t be in town, it sure sounds fun!!” Denise will be in the mainland for “specialized PT treatment” and has assigned son, Gus, to be their team leader. In February,…