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$50,000 granted to a nonprofit helping to get incarcerated youth back on track
Originally shared on KITV by Chloe Marklay, click here to read. HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV4)-- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. awarded a $50,000 grant to partnering organizations, Partners in Development Foundation and Kinai ‘Eha, to support Hale Ka Hana, a...
Column: What youth need to succeed (it’s not what you might think)
Opportunity Youth Action Hawai‘i policy interns shed light on the reality for the opportunity youth of Hawaiʻi that they support through their policy work.
$20 Million to Reform Youth Incarceration
Opportunity Youth Action Hawai‘i works to replace prison time with Hawaiian-based restorative justice.
About OYAH
The Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi (OYAH) hui is a unique collaboration of state and nonprofit agencies at the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center. Together, they are creating a pu’uhonua, or place of peace, safety, and healing. The partners of OYAH formally organized in 2020 and share a common purpose to transform punitive modalities of treatment and incarceration with effective therapeutic community-based programs rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural practices. In this place, Hawai’i’s youth can learn to become healers in their own lives, in their families, and their communities.
Voices of Our Community
“They helped me out, I was homeless and I work at Kupa ʻAina farm full-time now. With the help of RYSE and Partners In Development Foundation, I got my own place and now I just want to soak up all this knowledge like a sponge and teach others.”
– M. Perez-Fonseca
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