Outreach Working Group
The Outreach Working Group is working to implement Strategy 7 from the HISC/CGAPS 2025 Strategy that was released in 2020. This strategy focused on raising and maintaining strong awareness and support for key invasive species issues and expand, diversify and mobilize a network of allies to implement priority actions. The Outreach Working Group is chaired by Christy Martin from UH-PCSU-CGAPS.
Strategy 7: ENGAGED AND SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY – Raise or maintain strong awareness and support for key invasive species issues.
How does this relate to the Hawaiʻi Interagency Biosecurity Plan (HIBP)?
Gaps in action or progress on HIBP actions guided the priorities in this five-year plan. This Strategy 
addresses some critical HIBP tasks for Public Awareness Policy (Pol), Process (Pro), and Technology, Infrastructure, and Funding (Tifs). Highlights include coordinating shared messaging with partners, utilizing existing and new media outlets to disseminate information, providing regular updates to lawmakers on successes. For a more detailed list HIBP linkages for each strategy look to Appendix F of the HISC/CGAPS 2025 Strategy.
Messages
We are promoting simple, easily remembered, one sentence messages to the public:
- Protect Hawaii.
- Report a pest to 643-PEST (7378).
- Don’t dump aquarium pets or plants.
- Don’t plant a pest.
- Don’t pack a pest.
- Report dead birds to 211 or www.gotdeadbird.org.
- Don’t sell or buy a pest.
- Keep pets contained (e.g. cats).
- Buy local.
- Plant native species (promote the value of biodiversity)
Upcoming & Past Meetings
2019
December 12, 2019 – Agenda & Notes
June 19, 2019 – Agenda & Notes
2018
November 20, 2018 – Agenda & Notes
May 8, 2018 – Agenda & Notes
February 14, 2018 – Agenda & Notes
2017
September 26, 2017 – Agenda & Notes
May 3, 2017 – Agenda & Notes
February 1, 2017 – Agenda & Notes
2016
December 6, 2016 – Agenda & Notes
August 3, 2016 – Agenda | Notes
April 20, 2016 – Agenda | Notes
February 2, 2016 – Agenda | Notes
2015
December 3, 2015 – Agenda | Notes
November 5, 2015 – Agenda | Notes
September 29, 2015 – Agenda | Notes
2013
January 8, 2013 – Agenda
2012
July 17, 2012 – Agenda | Minutes
May 2, 2012 – Agenda
January 17, 2012 – Agenda |Minutes
2011
July 15, 2011 – Agenda | Minutes
January 19, 2011 – Agenda
2010-2004
October 21, 2010 – Agenda |Minutes
August 2, 2010 – Agenda
February 26, 2009 – Agenda
November 19, 2008 – Agenda |Minutes
September 16, 2008 – Agenda |Minutes
May 27, 2008 – Agenda
March 3, 2008 – Agenda | Minutes
August 13, 2007 – Agenda
May 18, 2007 – Agenda | Minutes
March 9, 2007 – Agenda | Minutes
January 29, 2007 – Agenda | Minutes
October 30, 2006 – Agenda | Minutes
March 10, 2006 – Agenda
December 5, 2005 – Agenda | Minutes
October 27, 2005 – Agenda | Minutes
September 13, 2005 – Agenda | Minutes
July 11, 2005 – Agenda | Minutes
May 18, 2005 – Agenda | Minutes
March 17, 2005 – Agenda
January 19, 2005 – Agenda | Minutes
December 15, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes
September 22, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes
August 25, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes
July 21, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes
June 23, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes
May 5, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes
March 17, 2004 – Agenda | Minutes