The Hawaiʻi State Legislature recently honored Hale Kipa Deputy Chief Executive Officer Jaque Kelley-Uyeoka with a Hawaiʻi’s Outstanding Advocate for Children and Youth award. The award ceremony was held on Sept. 30, 2022, by the Queen Liliʻuokalani Statue at the back of the State Capitol Building. Kelley-Uyeoka was nominated by...
Every November since 2007, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has drawn attention to the youth who experience homelessness each year in the United States through National Homeless Youth Awareness Month (NHYAM). The latest numbers for those experiencing homelessness in Hawai‘i reveal a complicated picture....
Every November, the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) raises awareness of the challenges of runaway and homeless youth and their families and seeks to educate the public about how to reduce this risk through National Runaway Prevention Month (NRPM). Each year, an estimated 4.2 million youth and young...
Hale Kipa will soon receive a generous $70,000 donation as a result of a matching campaign conducted by the Polamalu family. Troy and Theodora Polamalu personally donated $10,000 from their nonprofit, the Polamalu Foundation. Nine other families and businesses also pledged funds to reach the...
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This summer, two new programs provided Hale Kipa’s young emergency shelter residents with constructive, supportive, and entertaining activities. The first, called Puʻu Lei O LiLiʻu and funded by the Liliʻuokalani Trust, afforded the youth a chance to connect and learn to live by Hawaʻian values. Organizers held a series...
Aloha! I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and enjoying some well-deserved time doing things you are passionate about with the people you love. I am so very pleased to share my first Kuʻu Manaʻo (My Thoughts) with you for our triannual Transitions newsletter. In this letter,...
By Kelsey Kukaua – Associate Editor, Pacific Business News Jun 24, 2022 It should be the best of both worlds — government grants deliver needed social services to the public via independent nonprofits, which should in turn, offer some of the advantages of the private sector, such as competition, competitiveness...
Hale Kipa's Dori Tyau, Director of Human Resources & Training, recently sat down with KITV4's Maleko McDonnell to discuss staffing needs as service demands for youth increase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu9ZVctbqTE ...
