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Photo Essay: RYSE Lifts Up Youth

Photo Essay: RYSE Lifts Up Youth

by Opportunity for Youth Action Hawaiʻi | Jul 8, 2025 | HYCF, RYSE

Residential Youth Services & Empowerment (RYSE) helps homeless youth get off the streets with a place to stay, programs and assistance to finish school or earn their GED. Originally published by Kevin Fujii at Honolulu Civil Beat Residential Youth Services &...
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....
More Help Is Coming For Hawaii’s Homeless Youth

More Help Is Coming For Hawaii’s Homeless Youth

by Opportunity Youth Action Hawaiʻi Hui | Jul 25, 2022 | RYSE

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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