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 Family Support Services of West Hawaii 75-127 Lunapule Rd. Ste. 11 Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 Phone 808-326-7778 Fax 808-326-4063 info@fsswh.org FSSWH is a Hawaii Island United Way Agency |
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Early Childhood Development | Early Childhood Education | Fatherhood Initiative Na Kahumoku | Malama Perinatal Program | Youth Development
North Hawaii and Ka'u Child Development Program is a family support program for families of infants and toddlers with developmental delays who live in the North Hawaii area including the communities of Waikoloa, Waimea, Kohala and Honoka'a.
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. FSSWH 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
Parent Centers located on the Kelakehe Intermediate and High School campuses emphasize parental involvement in school and their child's education. They also provide information, referral and support services to parents. http://waveriders.k12.hi.us/Community/ParentCommunityCenter.htm
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 FSSWH 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
Na Kahumoku (Keepers of the Island)
In collaboration with the Department of Education, in the form of Kealakehe Intermediate School, are committed to finding ways of enriching the lives of youth ecologically. Na Kahumoku is a youth leadership movement which raises environmental awareness within itself and in the community. To learn more about Na Kahumoku, please go here.
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 out of school programming provided at Kealakehe Intermediate School.
Search Institute's 40 Development Assets is used as the basic framework
to provide a variety of activities including leadership development,
health and fitness, environmental education, performing arts and service
learning. A partnership with Kealakehe High School provides teens
the opportunity to earn elective credit by participating in the Youth
Leadership Alliance as mentors and program facilitators.
Positive Youth Development.pdf
Education and Vocation Services
for high school students in need of more intensive help and academic
support. Services are individualized to help participants overcome
barriers by working with the Life Skills Coach to boost social skills,
communication, problem solving and conflict resolution. Activities
include career, vocational and post secondary opportunities.
Education
and Vocation.pdf
Ho'omana Na 'Opio (Truancy and In-School Prevention)
is a youth empowerment program at Kealakehe Intermediate School to
encourage attendance, attachment and achievement by working individually
with our Leadership Coach to reduce or eliminate truancy and in-school
suspensions.
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
Youth Leadership Alliance - awards
1/2 an elective credit in multidisciplinary studies per semester.
To earn elective credit participants must complete an intensive
leadership training course followed by a schedule of direct service
equaling a total of sixty hours in the program. This course is
repeatable for credit towards graduation. Participants
successfully completing the course will receive a distinguished
recommendation letter from Family Support Services for college
applications.
Youth
Leadership Alliance.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.
