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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes December 4, 2018 Page 6 Mr. Nahakuelua has access to a lot of resources and agencies and can get it to Chair Doolittle and he can get that list out to various people. Ms. Lewis added the idea is to have one session that lays out all the issues, homelessness, drug addiction, etc. and bring it together to have a systems integration. If we fix it for the Veterans piece, everyone can benefit from it. Hoping that by doing this, we can take care of the Veterans. The Vet Center is one that has a lot of information. But the problem is with HIPAA, they aren't able to share information so there's no way to connect people with resources. If they could sign a consent form that would allow access to certain information. We don't need the mental health information. Mr. Nahakuelua shared what he knows about consent forms, it is implied that you only share the information that is necessary and not all information. Chair Doolittle confirmed the Vet Center is Federal. We should be able to enlist them, bring them into our meeting and discuss what we can do, what we can share. This dovetails into town hall style meetings around the island. We can provide Veterans with a data resource as well as talking about other issues that we're not aware of. Ms. Lewis introduced that Puna Neighborhood had an integrated system for the lava flow and it was geared towards action items, what is the need. Vice -Chair Brulee-Wilson stated there is a town hall meeting put on by Pacific Island Healthcare. Town hall meetings are supposed to be a resource information type of thing. Ms. Lewis asked Isaac Nahakuelua to talk about case management. Mr. Nahakuelua explained that interface would be a walk-in to the office or if they get arrested they go to Hale Hoola, the mental hospital in Hilo. They will have to go through Adult Mental Health Clinic for case management services. Care Hawaii is a case management service, they are a contractor of the State, they take overflow of the State. Mr. Sueoka mentioned that we just have to continue to connect dots. Ms. Lewis asked if Isaac sends her the list/information as a start, have we answered all of old business. Chair Doolittle confirmed yes, we have. Vietnam Memorial Mr. Wery brought up the Vietnam Memorial near the Wailoa Art Center, someone put flags and it's still there. There shouldn't be any flags there, you can put it up for an event but need to be removed after. The memorial is best when it is clean. They will be going there to remove the flags.