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$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...
Helping Homeless Youth in Hawaiʻi

Helping Homeless Youth in Hawaiʻi

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Nov 28, 2022 | HYCF, Kupa ʻAina, PIDF, RYSE

Originally shared on PBS Hawaiʻi’s Home is Here series on Nov. 30 2022, click here to read. Hawaiʻi’s homeless crisis is not new. And while outreach and services are often times focused on adults, there is a growing number of youth who are living on our streets....
Kailua project that focuses on at-risk youth receives $20M award in global challenge

Kailua project that focuses on at-risk youth receives $20M award in global challenge

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Oct 12, 2022 | HYCF, PIDF, RYSE

Originally shared on Hawaii News Now by Lynn Kawano on Oct. 12 2022, click here to read. The Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center will be getting a hefty infusion of cash over the next eight years. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A group of nonprofit agencies at...
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