Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services

Mission: Hale kipa provides opportunities and environments that strengthen and encourage youth, their families and communities to actualize their potential and social responsibility.

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foster care:hale kipa provides foster homes for youth needing emergency shelter better suited to living in a foster home as well as therapeutic foster homes to youth with behavioral or mental health challenges and needs that would do best in a therapeutic family environment. Supportive services are provided to the youth while in placement as well as for the families. Served approximately 34 youths.

shelter services:emergency shelters (2) that provide shelter and supportive services to abused, neglected and runaway youth. Served approximately 218 youths. Outreach services:youth outreach (yo): collaborative program with waikiki health that provides street outreach, drop-in, and health care services for runaway, homeless, street youth and youth at risk. Choose one option that best describes the primary (youth) focus of your non-profit organization's work within its community:community-based outreach and advocacy program: outreach program provides case management and community linkages for youth to prevent initial or further involvement with child welfare or juvenile justice systems. Ho'okala program: provides intake and assessment for status offenders referred by the police, with 24-hour access to immediate attendant care. Served approximately 450 youths.