When asked what the hardest part has been, estes said, “personally, having faith that things will get better. It was just so hard and unexpected.Cognitive learning pdf one day everything is in order, then bam, I lost my home and my business. I had to quickly shift my business into high gear to maintain my practice and the commitments I already had.Cognitive learning pdf I had several mother’s due at the time with birth plans drastically altered. Women and mothers are amazingly pragmatic and will do anything to protect their families.Cognitive learning pdf we helped women make their plans. Some moved away to the mainland, some transferred to planned hospital births, several continued their out-of-hospital birth plans and prepared to birth at relatives’ homes, friends’ homes, air B&bs—and we even had a hotel birth.Cognitive learning pdf we spent a lot of time processing medical records for transfer of care and preparing for impromptu home births. I really did not have much time to consider my own situation until several months later—and then it hit very hard.Cognitive learning pdf the loss was just so much.”

When asked if there has there been a silver lining, she said, “I have been truly amazed at the community support that we received.Cognitive learning pdf friends, community members and family came out of the wood work to provide support. When we finally got a rental house, within a day, an empty house was full of donated furnishings, linen and cookware.Cognitive learning pdf it was amazing, I will never forget how our community came together. FEMA and SBA were another story, though helpful and always kind, the paper work was atrocious as we lost all our personal files in the lava flow.Cognitive learning pdf also, each visit to the FEMA station was a sad reminder to what we had lost, mostly I left there in deep sadness. To date, we have not received any FEMA funding however we have been reassured that funding of an SBA loan is on the way any day now.Cognitive learning pdf silver lining… that our community is resilient, we help each other in times of crisis. In puna and the big island we do not wait for government help we help each other, this is profound.Cognitive learning pdf they say we are ‘puna strong’ and I believe it.”

“this really made me fearful, anxious, depressed and not able to sleep,” said osborne. “for the school, it is the fact that the state did not step up to help us.Cognitive learning pdf we are working with hawai‘i county to secure some of the $60 million that is dedicated or disaster relief, but no commitment has occurred yet and we have not received any funding support that we really need.Cognitive learning pdf we really need help with the current county compliance for our current facilities and for the future, we need a permanent campus. A school is a critical infrastructure.Cognitive learning pdf our families lost their homes or were displaced and lost their beloved school. It’s a double whammy.”

“this is a critical part of our healing,”said osborne.Cognitive learning pdf “having our own campus, like having a home. The community coming together to help us is the silver lining. Five east hawai‘i rotary clubs came together and raised funds and brought manpower in to do a makeover of the nani mau facility in preparation for our students.Cognitive learning pdf we call it the ‘miracle at nani mau!’ makana did a concert for us and so many community organizations and individuals stepped up to help us, donate school supplies and funds so there were no costs for our students such as school uniforms.Cognitive learning pdf all donations went immediately in addressing student needs. This was all a silver lining! We are filled with gratitude for that support!”

“it has been full of ups and downs,” explained osborne.Cognitive learning pdf “I have tried to stay present and not dwell in what is gone. Loosing two of my cats fills me with grief and that is hard. I have faith in the future and am full of gratitude for all of my friends and family that have supported me during this really difficult time.Cognitive learning pdf I really have struggled with resulting physical and mental health issues and had to put serious resources and attention on getting healthy and back to a place of balance.”

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When asked she feels about the response to the disaster and the recovery efforts, osborne said, “I have a lot of mixed feelings about the response.Cognitive learning pdf the hawai‘i county civil defense office and transportation division really stepped up to help us evacuate the school. They were fabulous. The general communication from civil defense was poor.Cognitive learning pdf we needed real-time information about the lava and this all happened from community groups. In 2014, when the lava threatened to take pāhoa town and some DOE schools were threatened, the state emerged to help relocate those schools.Cognitive learning pdf they harnessed all resources and manpower in their support, including setting up portable classrooms. These are public school children. None of this happened for us.Cognitive learning pdf charter school students receive no facilities funding and there is no disaster support funding in place for charter schools.”