Advisory Board
The Advisory Board develops agendas for General Meetings, develops action steps to meet the O‘ahu CoC identified priorities, requests information from the City and State on behalf of the O‘ahu CoC, and represents the O‘ahu CoC at key city, state, or related governmental or political meetings. The Executive Chair (or their designee) schedules and leads Advisory Board meetings and assigns tasks to committee members. The Advisory Board, with consideration of any recommendations from the Planning Committee, decides each year whether to allow new applications for CoC funding in the CoC application to HUD (vs. limiting the application to renewals only).
Advisory Board Officers
Chair
Heather Lusk, Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center
Secretary
Robert Boyack, Child & Family Service
Vice Chair
Jillian Okamoto, Catholic Charities Hawaii
Treasurer
Morgan Barrett, Family Promise of Hawaii
Advisory Board members
Advocacy Committee Chair
Bob Wardlaw, Project Vision Hawaii
CES Oversight Committee Chair
Dr. Daniel Cheng, Queens Medical Center
member relations committee chair
Greg Payton, Mental Health Kokua
Planning & Housing Committee Chair
Jon Berliner, Gregory House Programs
Awareness Committee Chair
Aura Reyes, Ka Po‘e o Kaka‘ako
Data Committee Chair
Claire Fujita, Community Empowerment Resources (CER) Hawaii
O‘ahu Youth Action Board Representative
Efren Berrones, Hawaii Health & Harm Reduction Center