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 Family Support Hawaii 75-127 Lunapule Rd. Ste. 11 Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 Phone 808-326-7778 Fax 808-326-4063 info@familysupporthawaii.org FSH is a Hawaii Island United Way Agency |
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| Kona | Waimea | Na'alehu | Hilo |
Click here for a general FSH brochure.
Early Childhood Development | Early Childhood Education | Fatherhood Initiative Malama Perinatal Program | Youth Development
North Hawaii, Kona, and Ka'u Child Development Program is a family support program for families of infants and toddlers with developmental delays.
North Hawaii Child Development Brochure.pdf
/brochures/Kona_Ka'u CDP_Brochure.pdf
Enhanced Healthy Start - The program offers home visiting, counseling, and nursing consultation to families with children involved in the child welfare services system. Needs are identified through an assessment tool, and the Nurturing Parenting Program curriculum is provided to caregivers; this curriculum includes activities for the caregiver to do with children to apply the lessons learned. Regular developmental screening of infants and toddlers is part of the program, as is referral to special assistance as needed to address developmental delays.
West Hawaii Early Head Start Program provides a holistic approach to parent support and early childhood health and education for income-eligible families with birth to 3 year olds from Ka'u to Kohala, Waimea and Honoka'a.
brochures/West Hawaii Early Head Start.pdf
Ke Anuenue Pili Kai Center (Rainbow from the Ocean) Infant and toddler care center at Kealakehe High School. The children are cared for as they would be in a traditional center with music, art, free creative play, and group times taught by qualified teachers. A unique play yard has been created especially for them, a place to enjoy as they work on their large motor skills. FSH Early Head Start staff have been implementing training activities with the moms and dads every week during their activity period. Staff show them new ways of interacting with their children.
Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) provides home visitation and socialization groups with emphasis on teaching and modeling how to be your child's first teacher through the use of the thirty-week HIPPY curriculum for 3, 4, and 5 year olds in the Kealakehe, Kahakai and Ka'u School districts. Click here for the Hawaii Parental Information and Resource Center web site.
brochures/HIPPY
Flyer English.pdf
brochures/HIPPY Flyer Spanish.pdf
A Family Of Readers is a Reading Is Fundamental Program that involves parents in early literacy activities with their young children. Families are encouraged to read to and with their children and children are provided free books of their own choosing as well as access to the Family of Readers Lending Libraries through the FSH Family Centers and home visiting programs.
To support fathers in understanding how babies develop, parenting with love, and creating strong and healthy families.
brochures/West Hawaii Fatherhood Initiative.pdf
An island wide program promoting healthy pregnancies and babies. Our workers offer special resources for teens and Hawaiian, Pacific Island and Hispanic families. We work with families from early in their pregnancy until their babies turn 2 years old.
brochures/Malama Brochure 2009.pdf
brochures/Malama Brochure - Marshallese.pdf
brochures/Malama Brochure - Spanish.pdf
Positive Youth Development Program
is an after school enrichment program located at Kealakehe
Intermediate School. The program offers a multidisciplinary
approach to learning by facilitating activities focused around arts and
culture, youth leadership, service learning, life skills management,
career exploration, financial literacy, environmental education, health,
fitness and recreation. The program is operates from
2:30 pm to 5:00 pm on all regularly scheduled school days. For
more information about this program, call (808) 334-4156 or (808)
334-4174.
Positive Youth Development.pdf
Education and Vocation Services
offers comprehensive services to at-risk youth between the ages of 15
and 19. Participants engage in responsible
decision making, transform previously delinquent behavior into positive
leadership behavior and develop a positive sense of self. Participants
receive support in securing vocational placement as well as planning for
continuing higher education. For more information about this
program, call
(808) 334-4132
Education
and Vocation.pdf
Ho'omana Na 'Opio (Truancy and In-School Prevention)
supports students at Kealakehe Intermediate School by providing support
to reduce or prevent absenteeism and truancy. The service helps create
an environment where students can confidentially and openly discuss
their experiences both in and out of school. Services also include life
skills management training, connection to school and community resources
and opportunities to participate in activities that utilize the unique
abilities of each student. For more information about this
program, call (808) 334-4132
Truency and In-School Suspension.pdf
Street Outreach Program outreaches
to young people (12-21 years) who are run away or at risk for
homelessness. Our services provide support, concrete assistance,
counseling, information and referral to help youth move off the streets.
Street
Outreach.pdf
Transitional Living
Program (16-21
years) provides longer term, supportive assistance for youth to develop
and strengthen independent living skills such as employment, budgeting,
legal issues, housing, cooking, etc. to negotiate the transition from
dependence to independent young adulthood.
Transitional
Living.pdf
Ka'u Family Center is drop in center that provide information and referral, community development, meeting space for community members and groups, access to office equipment and technology, parent education, emergency food and clothing distribution.
