$20 Million to Reform Youth Incarceration
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...
How Hawaiʻi Is Ending Youth Incarceration After More Than a Century of Colonization
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
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 GED,...
Helping Homeless Youth in Hawaiʻi
Originally shared on PBS Hawaiʻi's Home is Here series on Nov. 30 2022, click here to read. https://youtu.be/xqxnoOEJVbE 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...
Kawailoa youth participate at Aspen Institute’s Opportunity Youth Forum Grantee Cross-site Convening
From November 8 to November 13, eight representatives from the Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi (OYAH) programs participated in the cross-site convening held at the Hopi Tribe, New Mexico, and the Pueblo of Jemez. They heard from fellow Black, Indigenous People of...
Senate unanimously passes bill to include Native Hawaiian sexual violence survivors in funding
Originally shared on NBC News by Kimmy Yam on Nov. 18 2022, click here to read. “It happens to native groups. There is a certain invisibility … their issues are not necessarily focused on,” Hirono said in an exclusive interview with NBC News. Mazie Hirono on...
Kailua project that focuses on at-risk youth receives $20M award in global challenge
Originally shared on Hawaii News Now by Lynn Kawano on Oct. 12 2022, click here to read. https://vimeo.com/777526043/97302ce709 The Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center will be getting a hefty infusion of cash over the next eight years. HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -...
Nonprofit program to end youth incarceration awarded $20M
Originally shared on Pacific Business News by Kelsey Kukaua on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. Michigan-based W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded Partners in Development Foundation $20 million dollars over an eight-year commitment for its project “Kawailoa: A...
OHA Board Chair Carmen Lindsey’s Statement on Racial Equity 2030 Challenge Awardee Kawailoa
Originally shared on Office of Hawaiian Affairs on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. Today’s news that the Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi collaborative at the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center has been named one of five...
Ending Youth Incarceration in Hawaii and Beyond
Originally shared on Now This News by Sara Michel on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. https://youtu.be/H3ucNoHQTHw #ad In Hawai’i, young Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders are disproportionately represented in the juvenile justice system. The Partners in...
5 organizations awarded millions to advance racial equity across the globe within the decade
Originally shared on The Washington Post on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. Racial equity is an idea that’s top of mind for many, both in the United States and globally. Rather than simply considering it, in honor of its 90th anniversary, the W.K. Kellogg...
Kellogg revolutionized breakfast, now his foundation may help change children’s lives
Originally shared on USA Today by Carli Pierson on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. The Racial Equity 2030 challenge was open to those with ideas from across the globe. These are the five nonprofit organizations selected by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation....
Foundation makes global effort toward racial equity
Originally shared on ABC News on Oct. 11 2022, click here to view. https://youtu.be/FV4oAnth-Ls President and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on the Racial Equity 2030 initiative and reveals five awardees who will split $80 million to go toward the future of racial...
Five awardees to receive $80 million to advance racial equity globally
Originally shared on the W.K. Kellogg Foundation by Javon Dobbs on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. Today, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) announced five awardees for its Racial Equity 2030 challenge, an open call for bold solutions to drive an equitable future...
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Awards $80 Million in Bold Plan to Curb Racism by 2030
Originally shared on The Chronicle of Philanthrophy by Sara Herschander on Oct. 11 2022, click here to read. For decades, the Indian Law Resource Center has been brainstorming how it could do more to advocate for Indigenous peoples across the Americas. What would...
Hawaiʻi Project to End Youth Incarceration Receives $20 Million Award to Advance Racial Equity
The Racial Equity 2030 challenge will support the Hawaiʻi project to replace youth incarceration using a transformative indigenous model. Today, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced Partners in Development Foundation (PIDF) and its collaborative partners known as the...
Hawai`i Is So Close to Ending the Incarceration of Young Girls
The state had two months with no young people in the girls’ unit of its only long-term placement facility. It’s reason to celebrate, but the work isn’t over. Originally shared on the Vera Institute of Justice by Nazish Dholakia, Senior Writer and Lindsay Rosenthal,...
How Hawaii brought its population of girls in prison to zero
Original story published on NBC News by Christopher Cicchiello on Oct. 1, 2022 click here to read. Hawaii reached the milestone earlier this year of having no girls in its only youth correctional facility — a first in state history, officials say. It was a...
Justice Reform with Mark Kawika Patterson
Original story published on CNHA's Midday Manaʻo podcast on August 10, 2022, click here to view. On this week’s episode, Manu and Mehana are joined by Mark Kawika Patterson, Administrator of the Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center and Chair of the Hawaiʻi State...
Improving Hawaii’s Health
Original story published on Hawaii Business Magazine on August 10, 2022, click here to read. Focusing on vulnerable and underserved populations, Kaiser Permanente provides support to many nonprofit organizations to uplift the community’s overall health and well-being....
OYAH Policy Intern Presents At CNHA Convention
On July 21st, Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi (OYAH) intern Leah Delos Santos presented at the 21st Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement convention on behalf of the Partners in Development Foundation (PIDF), featuring the important policy work of OYAH at...
Girls in Hawaii were once jailed for ‘offences’ like fleeing unsafe homes. Now they’re not locked up at all
Originally shared on Australian Broadcasting Corporation by Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Ann Arnold on July 27, 2022, click here to read. In 2021, there were 819 young people incarcerated on an average night in Australia. Most were aged between 10 and 17 years old, 50 per...
Hawaii has no girls in juvenile detention. Here’s how it got there
Original story shared on The Washington Post by Claire Healy on July 25, 2022, click here to read. When Mark Patterson took over as administrator of the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility in 2014, he inherited 500 acres of farm ranch — and the care of 26 boys and...
More Help Is Coming For Hawaii’s Homeless Youth
Original story published on Honolulu Civil Beat on July 25, 2022 by Megan Tagami, click here to read. At 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, teenagers at the Residential Youth Services and Empowerment program have just finished their music therapy class. Inside the...
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