Normalize Indigenous Knowledge
Pacific Islanders as a diverse indigenous peoples know their history, languages, cultures, traditions, and values better than anyone else; no one can explain these better than themselves. Pacific Focused accompanies organizational leaders in their quest to become effective trainers, practitioners, and community organizers of their people utilizing best practices, indigenous framework, and resources.
Change Deficit Narrative
Pacific Islanders are descendants of courageous warriors and navigators from proud indigenous peoples with strong connections to their cultures and traditions. Yet, the diaspora struggles to overcome a deficit narrative fueled by ignorance and misinformation in schools, workplaces, and through the media. We intend to change the deficit narrative through research, facts, and a re-validation of indigenous practices.
Transform Communities
Pacific Islanders living abroad are experiencing the loss of their indigenous cultures, languages, and traditions. Without core identities, youth are easily influenced negatively by the dominant deficit narrative in the media, discriminatory practices in schools, misinformation in social and mainstream media. Pacific Focused helps transform communities into safe and supportive environments for success.
Pacific Focused aspires to work collaboratively to advance the success of the Pacific Islander diaspora who are the newest Pacific Islander immigrants to the State of Hawaiʻi. We are humbled by the difficult mission ahead, but inspired by the peopleʻs resolve to build a better live for their children in a foreign land while fighting to preserve their indigenous values and cultures.
Our Strategy
We engage in research on Pacific Islanders in the United States to provide helpful data on their experiences, challenges, and to validate indigenous practices.
We provide Pacific-relevant technical assistance, networking capacity, and data to help transform leaders into effective and compassionate advocates for Pacific Islanders. 
We broker training opportunities to help transform the aspirations and values of Pacific Islanders into actions.