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Clinical Services

We provide youth and families across Hawai‘i with compassionate, culturally sensitive, and strengths-based support during times of crisis, transition, and healing.

From crisis intervention and in-home support to life skills development and therapeutic foster care, our programs meet youth and families where they are—helping them build stability, resiliency, and a path forward.

Expanded Crisis Support (ECS)

Hale Kipa’s Expanded Crisis Support Program offers up to 8 weeks of intensive, strengths-based services following a mental health crisis to help stabilize youth and families, reduce risks, and connect them to longer-term care.

Service Features:

  • Youth ages 3-20
  • Crisis support and prevention
  • Short-term therapeutic support in home or community settings
  • 24/7 staff accessibility for crisis support
  • Coordination with community resources

Hāloa House

Hāloa House ofers offers skill-building for young women (18-24 21) who were formerly in foster care or experienced homelessness. A live-in Resident Advisor oversees the program, which focuses on education, employment, and safe housing.

Service Features:

  • Skill development
  • Residential support
  • Focus on self-sufficiency

Housing First

Hale Kipa in partnership with the city and county of Honolulu through the State of Hawaʻi Ohana zone Program uses vouchers to secure city housing for at risk of, or homeless youth. This program includes case management to support the young adults and successful transition to self sufficiency and resilience.

Service Features:

  • Affordable housing
  • Case management
  • Support services
  • Pathway to self-sufficiency

Intensive Independent Living Skills (IILS)

Hale Kipa’s IILS Program provides intensive, community-based services for teens and their families referred by CAMHD (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services), focusing on building independent living skills and supporting their transition to adulthood.

Service Features:

  • Youth ages 16-20
  • Weekly individual and family therapy
  • Flexible services in home or community
  • Life skills development and case management
  • 24/7 staff support

Intensive In-Home Services (IIH)

Hale Kipa’s Intensive In-Home Services provides comprehensive, behavioral, community-based services for children and families known to Hawai‘i’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division (CAMHD). The services are based on an intensive, individualized, strengths-based approach that focuses on the youth and family’s needs and goals.

Service Features:

  • Youth ages 3-20
  • Client centered individual and family therapy 
  • Flexible, community-based services
  • Crisis stabilization and skill-building
  • 24/7 staff accessibility

Kauhale ‘Ōpio

As part of Hale Kipa’s Transitional Living Program, Kauhale ‘Ōpio provides residential services to young adults ages 18 through 24 at risk of being unsheltered to promote their successful transition to self-sufficiency. In the program, young adults work toward educational and vocational goals and learn life skills as they transition out of being unsheltered. It is our commitment to support them in realizing their goals while providing appropriate structure and support.

Service Features:

  • Residential services for young adults
    • Men’s Residence houses 10 men at a time, ages 18 through 21 (single only).
    • Women’s Residence houses 6 women at a time, ages 18 through 21 (single, pregnant and/or parenting), and up to two babies.
  • Support for educational and vocational goals
  • Life skills training
  • Structured support

Transitional Family Homes (TFH)

Hale Kipa offers youth ages 3-17 a safe, nurturing transitional family home with trained resource caregivers, supporting them toward reunification or independence.

Service Features:

  • Short-term and respite care options
  • Specialized care for youth with higher needs
  • Caregiver support, training, and case management
  • 24/7 on-call staff support

The Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP)

Hale Kipa offers comprehensive trauma-informed case management services to minor victims of all forms of human trafficking. Participation in this statewide program is voluntary, and individuals are referred from the Child Welfare Services- Human Trafficking Hotline. 

TVAP staff respond to the intake referral by providing assessments and multi-level crisis response. TVAP also offers advocacy, outreach, trainings, consultations, and support to caregivers with psycho-education and connections to community resources. 

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