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Cultivating Healing: How OYAH Weaves Indigenous Culture into Youth Empowerment for All Youth
On January 21st, communities across the United States marked the 9th annual National Day of Racial Healing (NDRH). This observance celebrates our shared values, builds common ground, and inspires collective action to heal and to build a more just world. Organizations...
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About OYAH
The Opportunity for Youth Action Hawaiʻi (OYAH) hui is a unique collaboration of nonprofit agencies at the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center that works in close collaboration with State partners. Together, alongside our State Partners, we are creating a puʻuhonua, or place of peace, safety, and healing. OYAH formally organized in 2020 under the 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, Hawaiʻi’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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Join this work to support opportunities for youth in building greater belonging, purpose, community connections, education, workforce readiness and skills to contribute to and lead healthy, thriving families and communities in Hawai’i and beyond.