Fellows mentioned in this story: Janice Ikeda

From Big Island Video News:

Recovery efforts continue, months following the March kona low storms impacted the State of Hawaiʻi.

On Hawaiʻi island, the non-profit Vibrant Hawaiʻi reports that it received nearly 900 disaster case management referrals from the state this week. The referrals involve households that requested FEMA assistance following the storms.

Vibrant Hawaiʻi is “contacting each household by phone, text message, and email to determine whether they are still interested in receiving disaster case management services”, the organization announced in a news release.

“We recognize that household circumstances may have changed during the months since these families initially requested assistance,” said Janice Ikeda, Chief Executive Officer of Vibrant Hawaiʻi. “Our immediate priority is to identify who still needs support so our disaster case managers can begin working with those households as efficiently as possible.”

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