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April 17, 2024
Aloha,
I am writing in response to the Notice to Providers of Professional Services
(HRS103D-304) and would like to submit a statement of qualification to be listed as
a vendor for the County of Hawai’i with the Office of Housing and Community
Development.
SAS Services, LLC can provide services to support the Office of Housing and
Community Development with the following:
• OH.5) Community Planning (Community Engagement, Strategic Planning
• OH.7) Instructional Systems (Design of Training, Facilitation and Evaluations
Programs)
I have attached the statement below for your review.
Please let me know if additional information is needed to process this request.
Mahalo in advance for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.
Mahalo,
Sharon A. Simms, MSW, CPC, ODCC, CFE
CEO
SAS Services, LLC
[Grab your
County of Hawai’i
Professional Services
Name of Firm SAS Services, LLC
Sharon Anita Simms
sharon@sasserviceshawaii.com
Physical location: 61-169 Iliohu Place, Hale’iwa, Hawai’i 96712
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 894342, Mililani, Hawai’i 96789
Age of Firm May 2012, 1 employee and 10 subcontractors
Education
& Training:
● Sharon A. Simms, Bachelor of Arts in Communication,
Masters of Social Work, Certified Professional Coach,
Trauma-Informed Care Coach, Compassion Fatigue
Educator, Organizational Development Consultant, Wiley
Authorized Partner
○ Specialty: Coaching, Community Engagement,
Consulting, Facilitation, Instructional Design,
Program Development, Program & Organizational
Evaluation, Strategic Alignment, Strategic Planning,
System Change
● Verna Wong, Master of Business Administration, Bachelor
of Business Administration, Certified Team Performance
Practitioner, Organizational Design, Wiley Authorized
Partner
○ Specialty: Community Engagement, Strategic
Planning, Organizational Development, Leadership
Coaching, Project Management, and Other HR
services
● Dr. Jackie Ng-Osorio, Doctorate of Public Health, Master
of Public Health, Bachelor of Arts in Communication
○ Specialty: Community Engagement, Research and
Evaluation, Culturally Relevant Evaluation, Native
Hawaiian Well-being, Culture-based education
● Ashley Petitt, Masters in Social Work, Bachelor of Arts,
Sociology
○ Specialty: Community Engagement, Strategic
Planning, Program Evaluation And Development,
Group Facilitation, Program Training, Grant Writing
And Management, Clinical Supervision, Therapy
● Edlyn Moana Olaso, Kamehameha Schools
○ Specialty: Virtual Assistant, Community Organizing,
Email Management, Bookkeeping, Training and
Education for Google Doc
Recent Projects ● EPIC ʻOhana, Inc.: Leadership Training, Program Planning,
Strategic Planning, Leadership Coaching (2024)
○ Laurie Tochiki (ltochiki@epicohana.org)
● Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center: Merger,
Strategic Planning, Leadership Training and Executive
Coaching (2024)
○ Heather Lusk (hlusk@hhhrc.org)
● Department of Health: Facilitation of Trauma Informed
Care Taskforce (2024)
○ Scott Shimabukuro
(scott.shimabukuro@doh.hawaii.gov)
● Office of Wellness & Resilience: Strategic Planning and
Teambuilding (2024)
○ Tia Hartsock (tia.lr.hartsock@hawaii.gov)
● Partners In Care: Strategic Alignment (2021)
○ Laura Thielen (laurat@partnersincareoahu.org)
Materials www.sasserviceshawaii.com
Bios
Sharon A. Simms, CEO of SAS Services, LLC is a nonprofit consultant, facilitator,
trainer, former social worker, and social work educator who has served numerous
agencies in the State of Hawai‘i. Sharon has over 24 years of experience working in
the human/social services and nonprofit sector. In May 2012, Sharon founded SAS
Services, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in organizational development and
organizational capacity building. SAS Services provides a variety of options to assist
organizations in delivering effective and efficient services for those they serve.
Through SAS Services, Sharon works collaboratively with talented and creative
professionals with expertise in strategic planning, organizational change, system
change, program development, program evaluation, meeting facilitation, community
outreach and community building, executive coaching, leadership development,
professional development, curriculum design, and much more. Sharon has a
Masters of Social Work and a Bachelors of Arts in Communications from the
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Sharon grew up in Mililani and graduated from
Mililani High School. She is a Certified Compassion Fatigue Educator, Certified
Professional Coach, and has a Organization Development Consulting Certification.
She is a member of the International Association of Facilitators, Society of Human
Resource Management, National Association of Social Workers, Association for
Talent Development, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, The Global
Institute of Organization Development Network and Hawaii-Pacific Evaluation
Association. Sharon also serves on the board of Blueprint For Change and is a
member of The Links Incorporated. She currently lives on the North Shore of O’ahu,
in a house with built-in self-care, the sound of the ocean.
Verna Wong is the owner and Principal Consultant of Verna Wong HR Services, LLC,
offering strategic planning, organizational development, leadership coaching, and
other HR services for organizations. She was a member of the Executive Leadership
team, serving as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Hawaiian Host Inc.
She oversaw the HR team, and was responsible for strategy,
organizational development (OD), and human resources (HR). She was responsible
for redesigning the entire OD and HR functions during its acquisition of the Mauna
Loa Nut Corporation. While at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Shidler College of
Business, she developed the new Graduate Career Services function which included
operational and professional development functions. She has held additional OD
and HR functions in other industries. Prior to her roles in OD and HR, she held
multiple leadership roles in retail operations, new business development, and
merchandising with profit and loss responsibilities. She currently serves as the
Secretary on the board at Family Programs Hawai’i. She is a member of the Hawaii
Community Benefit Consultants Association (HCBC) and Association of Talent
Development – Hawai’i Chapter. Her passion is to serve the at-risk community in
Hawai’i through volunteering. She has served as a mentor to an at-risk foster youth
for several years. She has also served in multiple volunteer roles in nonprofit
organizations such as Family Programs Hawai’i, Help is On the Way, Breakthroughs
for Youth, Inc., Hawai’i Community Benefit Consultants, HACBED, Design Thinking
Hawaiʻi, Society of Human Resources Management – Hawai ʻi Chapter, Association of
Talent Development -Hawai’i, and at her place of worship.
Dr. Jackie Ng-Osorio is a Native Hawaiian and the owner of Ng-Osorio Consulting LLC.
For over 20 years, she has focused on achieving her mission of improving the well-
being of Native Hawaiians through research and evaluation with academic and
community-based partners. She has worked with education, health, and non-profit
organizations that focus on farming, ‘āina (land) based education, culturally based
education, children from infants to adolescents, and families. Through this time, she
has had the opportunity to understand the greater context of well-being for Native
Hawaiians as well as the greater community. Building upon these experiences, her
goal is to continue to work with organizations to help them understand their impact
on the community through the storytelling of their data while bringing an indigenous
and culturally responsive lens to her evaluation work.
Jackie received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Creighton University,
Master of Public Health from Emory University, and Doctorate of Public Health from
the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and currently resides in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi with
her husband and two children.
Ashley Petitt is an independent consultant and Licensed Clinical Social Worker driven
to understand and improve the systems in which Hawaiʻi’s most marginalized and
underserved populations receive care. After providing direct care and clinical
supervision for over a decade on Oʻahu, Ashley now uses these experiences to inform
her work with agencies to foster opportunities for impactful change statewide. She
specializes in strategic planning, program evaluation and development, group
facilitation, program training, and grant writing and management. Her passion
remains supporting agencies and entities serving those encountering Serious and
Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI), houselessness, substance use, trauma, and chronic
medical conditions. Currently, she humbly serves as strategic planning consultant for
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Nancy Atmospera-Walch School of Nursing
(NAWSON), co-facilitator for Hawai’i’s Trauma Informed Taskforce with SAS Services,
LLC, and a facilitator for Maui Economic Development Boardʻs Comprehensive
Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) working groups. Ashley previously served as
a lead inpatient behavioral health social worker at Adventist Health Castle, QMHP for
a 36-bed Crisis Stabilization Center operated by Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction,
and the Statewide Sexual Assault Response and Training Program Coordinator
through the Sex Abuse Treatment Center. Ashley holds a Master in Social Work from
Smith College SSW in Northampton, MA.
Moana became a Virtual Assistant in 2015 after doing contract work for Central Oahu
Youth Services Association (COYSA), a nonprofit shelter on the North Shore of Oʻahu.
It was there that she met Sharon and her life, and purpose became clearer. As an
alumnus of The Kamehameha Schools, Moana has learned to embrace her
multicultural heritage and values while expanding her knowledge in the virtual world.
Aside from being parents to their 5 wonderful sons, she and her husband Reyn, also
raised their great-grandniece - previously placed in the foster care system - as a
welcomed addition to their loving family. Moana’s heart and home will always be in
Hawaiʻi, but she and her husband now reside in the high desert of Nevada, where
they will one day retire.