Aloha Friends, We are pleased to announce that we will be offering face to face classes on Hawai'i Island this year. A combination of online learning and in-person classes will be offered at the North Hawaii Education and Research Center in Honoka'a. Our entire curriculum is being updated Read More...
Change the world
May 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment
As I look out onto the soft blue of Hilo Bay from my Bay front office, I am filled with anticipation and satisfaction at the prospect of serving new cohort of counseling students this fall. The very prospect of reopening the Academy's doors to face-to-face students has met with enthusiasm and Read More...
Cyber Testing on the Islands for the International Certification Exam
May 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For those of you on the neighbor islands, Hawaii Alcohol and Drug abuse Division of Department of Health is now allowing qualified candidates to test for Certified Substance Abuse Counselor exam at University of Hawaii campuses via computer now. One of my grads will the very first to test on the Big Read More...
Into the New Year
December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
2011 was a year for the books, with much inner growth and endurance as the orders of the day. 2012 shines with promise. A new job, possibly a move to a new home and a new website for Pacific Academy of the Healing Arts. We are planning to construct a website specifically for addictions Read More...
Light in the storm
October 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week, I wrote about an old friend being shaken from the welfare tree because he was deemed "not disabled enough" to forgo work. Thursday, I picked my messages to hear the first shade of hope in this man's voice in many months. He was jubilantly announcing that, after six years of Read More...
