The Child & Family Service (CFS) will use a $250,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to deliver a youth violence prevention program in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. The program, called "Ike Loa," will provide training to community partners who work with youth to help identify at-risk behavior and increase protective factors. CFS will also offer age-appropriate violence prevention classes to...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $567,627 Project Grant to the Keala Foundation to implement the Keala to Success: Early Intervention Camp Program. The purpose of this 3-year grant, under the CFDA 16.726 Juvenile Mentoring Program, is to mentor 12- to 18-year-old Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander high-risk youth on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Key program activities include establishing a mentorship team,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $2,551,500.00 to support an implementation science study on substance use prevention for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth in rural Hawaii. The project aims to use a community-based participatory research approach to study the implementation of a culturally grounded substance use prevention curriculum called Hoouna Pono. The key activities...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Juvenile Mentoring Program (CFDA 16.726) to Keiki 'O Ka 'Aina Preschool, Inc., a nonprofit Native Hawaiian organization based in Honolulu, Hawaii. The project, titled "Supporting Keiki of Incarcerated Parents Hawaii," aims to develop and sustain culturally responsive mentoring relationships for 12 to 225 children of incarcerated parents ages 4-17...
The Kauai Resilience Project is a community initiative funded by a $600,000 Project Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493). The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, will support the hiring of a full-time coordinator and the development of strategic action plans and a plan for expanding afterschool program access on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. The grant aims to improve youth mental health and...
This Project Grant award of $120,000.00 was provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243). The goal of the "Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking in CWC 96744" project is to change the community's beliefs that underage drinking is acceptable within the 96744 zip code area of Windward Oahu, Hawaii. The non-profit...
The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) to Adult Friends For Youth (AFY), a non-profit organization in Honolulu, Hawaii. The grant funding supports the "O Ke Ala Maluhia (The Peaceful Way)" project, which aims to create safer communities by targeting high-risk youth prone to extreme violence and gang activity in disadvantaged communities in...
The YMCA of Honolulu received a $2,592,000 Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Congressional Directives program (CFDA 93.493) to implement the YMCA of Honolulu Statewide Youth Mental Wellness Program. This program will provide school and community-based in-person mental health services, including prevention and intervention activities, to 1,350 youth aged 11-18 across Hawaii. The services include experiential and therapeutic...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) awarded a $748,818 Project Grant to Beginning New Outreach, Inc., a minority-owned nonprofit organization, to deliver an evidence-based substance abuse prevention program curriculum paired with positive youth development (PYD) services. The project will focus on youth ages 10-17 in Muscogee County, Georgia, providing the Narconon: Truth About Drugs prevention curriculum and PYD services in areas such as...
The County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney was awarded a $550,000 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745). The purpose of the grant is to implement a robust mental health diversion program that will connect justice-involved individuals with mental health disorders and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders to treatment services provided by Hoola Lahui...
MEO YOUTH SERVICES K?OHI (TO PREVENT) PROGRAM - THE MEO YOUTH SERVICES KAOHI (TO PREVENT) PROGRAM WILL SERVE 105 YOUTHS FROM AGES 11 TO 18 ON MOLOKA`I ISLAND, COUNTY OF MAUI, STATE OF HAWAI`I, BY ADMINISTERING A HYBRID OF IN-SCHOOL EVIDENCED-BASED CURRICULUM AND OUT-OF-SCHOOL-TIME (OST) SERVICES. THIS MAUI ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (MEO) PROGRAM POSITIVELY AFFECTS YOUTH BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE OF HARMFUL ISSUES, SUCH AS TEEN SUICIDE, (CYBER) BULLYING, TOBACCO/VAPING AND UNDERAGE DRINKING. ACCORDING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE [1], SUBSTANCE USE REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT HEALTH DISPARITY AMONG INDIGENOUS AND MINORITY POPULATIONS IN THE U.S., INCLUDING IN HAWAI`I. THIS IS PARTICULARLY PROBLEMATIC IN RURAL COMMUNITIES WHERE HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION RESOURCES ARE LIMITED. IN ADDITION, THE MAJORITY OF HAWAIIANS RESIDE IN RURAL AREAS OF THE STATE OF HAWAI`I. FURTHERMORE, NATIVE HAWAIIAN YOUTH TEND TO HAVE EARLY SUBSTANCE USE ONSET AND HIGHER USE RATES RELATIVE TO THEIR NON-HAWAIIAN PEERS. THE RURAL ISLAND OF MOLOKA`I IS PREDOMINANTLY POPULATED BY NATIVE HAWAIIANS AND HAWAI`I'S RATES OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL USE ARE HIGHEST AMONG YOUTH IN THIS CATEGORY. NATIVE HAWAIIANS ARE REPORTED AS HAVING THE HIGHEST LIFETIME AND 30-DAY RATES OF USING ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND OTHER DRUGS COMPARED WITH OTHER YOUTH ETHNIC GROUPS.[2] STUDIES SHOW THAT YOUTH WHO CONSUME ALCOHOL ARE AT HIGHER RISK OF UNSAFE BEHAVIORS, FOR EXAMPLE, PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ASSAULT, ALCOHOL INDUCED ACCIDENTS OR INJURIES, AND SUICIDE. ____________________________________________________________________________ [1] NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH AND DRUG PREVENTION IN RURAL HAWAI`I | DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY - PORTAL [2] HTTP://BLOG.HAWAII.EDU/DOP/RESEARCH/INTRODUCTION/NATIVE-HAWAIIAN-HEALTH-AND-DRUG-PREVENTION-IN-RURAL-HAWAII/