Community Partnerships
CDS faculty and staff also participate in numerous community boards and advisory groups for the purpose of creating more future choices for persons with disabilities, through the combined efforts with others in the community. Among those partnerships, includes participation in:
- ARC of Hawai‘i Board of Directors: Leolinda Parlin
- Aging and Disability Resource Center, Advisory Council: Rebecca Ozaki
- Alakai Jaycees: Board Chair, Chin Lee
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Legislative Council: Jean Johnson
- Assistive Technology Resource Center, Advisory Council: Rebecca Ozaki
- Association of University Centers on Disability Legislative Committee: Robert Stodden, International Committee: Chairperson, Robert Stodden, Program Technical Assistance Team: Robert Stodden
- Cathedral Catholic Academy School Board Chair, Leolinda Parlin
- Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Advisory Council: Martha Guinan
- Developmental Disabilities Division, Quality Assurance Committee: Chair, Jean Johnson
- Children’s Action Network: Robert Stodden
- Disability Access and Communication Board: Brian Kajiyama
- Disability Action Group, Society for Community Research and Action, American Psychological Association: Peter Dowrick
- EPSDT Advisory Council: Leolinda Parlin
- Easter Seals of Hawai‘i: Board Chair, Jean Johnson
- PICL Advisory Committee, Kevin Dierks
- Family Voices National Health Information Center Advisory Board: Leolinda Parlin
- Family Voices National Center on Family Professional Partnerships Advisory Council: Leolinda Parlin
- Fetal Alcohol Task Force: Martha Guinan
- Good Beginnings Alliance Board of Directors: Jean Johnson
- Insitute on Disability Culture: Steven Brown
- Hawai‘i Disability Rights Center Board of Directors: Leolinda Parlin
- Hawai‘i Early Intervention Coordinating Council: Jean Johnson; Co-Chair, Leolinda Parlin
- Hawai‘i Junior Chamber of Commerce: District 5 Director Chin Lee
- Hawai‘i State Pediatric Council: Leolinda Parlin
- Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: Jeff Okamoto
- International Council for Exceptional Children Policy Committee: Robert Stodden
- Teaching Exceptional Children: Adviser, Robert Stodden
- Kua O Ka La Public Charter School Board of Directors: Kelly Roberts
- Lanakila Foundation Board of Directors: Rebecca Ozaki
- Learning Disabilities Association of Hawai‘i Board of Directors: Jean Johnson
- Learning for a Lifetime Board of Directors: JoAnn Yuen
- Medicaid Task Force for Medically Fragile Children: Leolinda Parlin
- Miss Hawai‘i Scholarship Pageant: Steve Potts
- O‘ahu Workforce Investment Board, Executive Committee: Rebecca Ozaki
- Program Committee Western Insititute of Nursing: Alice Tse
- QUEST Expanded Access Advisory Council: Leolinda Parlin
- Reach out Pacific, Board Secretary: Denise Uehara
- Responsive Caregivers of Hawai‘i Board: JoAnn Yuen
- Special Education Advisory Board: Jean Johnson
- State Council on Developmental Disabilities: Vice-Chair, Martha Guinan
- Chair, Health and Early Education Committee, Jean Johnson
- The Movement Center Board of Directors: Martha Guinan
- The Whitney Academy Board: Steve Potts




