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Youth Voices Resonate: Kinai ‘Eha Receives Standing Ovation at the 2024 Rural Summit in Lexington, KY

Youth Voices Resonate: Kinai ‘Eha Receives Standing Ovation at the 2024 Rural Summit in Lexington, KY

by Opportunity for Youth Action Hawaiʻi | May 16, 2024 | Kinai ʻEha

Within each individual, regardless of background, experience, or circumstance, is a story to tell. At the beginning of May, six youth from Kinai ‘Eha along with their Executive Director, Josiah Akau, and PIDF President and CEO, Shawn Kanaʻiaupuni, PhD., traveled to...
$50,000 granted to a nonprofit helping to get incarcerated youth back on track

$50,000 granted to a nonprofit helping to get incarcerated youth back on track

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Apr 14, 2023 | Kinai ʻEha, PIDF

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...
$20 Million to Reform Youth Incarceration

$20 Million to Reform Youth Incarceration

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Mar 24, 2023 | HYCF, Kinai ʻEha, PIDF, RYSE

Originally shared on Hawaii Business Magazine by Noelle Fujii-Oride, click here to read. Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi received a $20 million award in the fall from the Kellogg Foundation to advance its goal of replacing youth incarceration with a restorative...
Convening engages community to support opportunities for youth action

Convening engages community to support opportunities for youth action

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Mar 1, 2023 | Hale Kipa, HYCF, Kinai ʻEha, Kupa ʻAina, Olomana School, PIDF, RYSE

Over 50 Hawaiʻi community partners and stakeholders gathered at the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center in support of creating opportunities for youth action. Participants learned more about OYAH’s efforts to replace youth incarceration using a transformative...
How Hawaiʻi Is Ending Youth Incarceration After More Than a Century of Colonization

How Hawaiʻi Is Ending Youth Incarceration After More Than a Century of Colonization

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Jan 20, 2023 | Hale Kipa, HYCF, Kinai ʻEha, Kupa ʻAina, Olomana School, PIDF, RYSE

Originally shared on Nonprofit Quarterly by Annabelle Le Jeune on Jan. 19 2023, click here to read. A young Native Hawaiian farmer shows up to work every day to cultivate indigenous crops using traditional and contemporary methods to feed his island home community....
A project that aims to end youth incarceration

A project that aims to end youth incarceration

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Dec 14, 2022 | Hale Kipa, HYCF, Kinai ʻEha, Kupa ʻAina, Olomana School, PIDF, RYSE

Originally shared on Midweek’s Proof Positive series by Annabelle Le Jeune on Dec. 14 2022, click here to read. The Olomana mauna and the Koʻolau’s nestle a 500-acre campus where young people farm kalo, work out, repair an age-old waʻa (canoe), obtain their...
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