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Collaboration In Kailua Works To Transform Hawai‘i’s Juvenile Justice System
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from 72 countries around the world. In 2021, the Kellogg Foundation announced the top 10 finalists for the chal- lenge who each received a $1 million grant and nine months of capacity-building support. All finalists moved through a process of multiple levels of review, feedback and dil- igence involving peer appli- cants and multi-disciplined experts from across the world. Five awardees were selected; three received a $20 million grant and two received $10 million.
with ʻōiwi (Native Hawaiian) leaders, where youth incar- ceration is nonexistent and replaced with native ways of healing,” says Partners in Development Foundation president and CEO Shawn Kanai‘aupuni. “Our intent is to exchange information and knowledge, lessons learned and methodologies with oth- er communities in Hawaiʻi, nationally and internationally who may face similar chal- lenges, and to demonstrate how culturally relevant prac- tices can support vulnerable youth,” Kanai‘aupuni adds. “Finally, we see OYAH host- ing cultural exchanges and learning from other indige- nous and BIPOC (black, in- digenous and people of color) communities to strengthen in- novations and positive results in the field of youth justice.”
“Partners in Develop- ment Foundation and the Opportunity Youth Action Hawai‘i collaborative are re- placing youth incarceration with cultural and therapeutic
alternative education; lead fiscal sponsor Partners in Development Foundation Kupa ʻĀina Farm; Kinai ʻEha workforce development and training; Hale Kipa Hale Lanipōlua Assessment Cen- ter; and Residential Youth Services & Empowerment homeless youth transitions.
The Kawailoa project stems from Act 201 established in 2018, which renamed the 500- acre state property that the Hawaiʻi Youth Correctional Facility and Olomana School sit on to Kawailoa Youth and Family Wellness Center aimed at reforming Hawaiʻi’s juvenile justice system.
(Top) Youth share their experiences in a panel facilitated at a Kawailoa campus community convening. (Above) Partners in Development Foundation president and CEO Shawn Kana‘iaupuni and Hawai‘i Youth Correctional Facility youth administrator Mark Patterson meet with the Friends of Children’s Justice Center of Maui at Kupa ‘Āina Farm in Kailua. PHOTOS COURTESY PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
As a youth-centered com- munity sanctuary, OYAH focuses on nurturing resil- ience and leadership among Hawaiʻi’s youth. The organi- zation’s approach focuses on choosing healing over punish- ment, changing mindsets and systems, and providing young people, families and com- munities with pathways for self-sufficiency, racial equity and healthy lives.
Kupa ‘Āina farm assistant Machijah Perez-Fonseca harvests kalo to support a local hālau event.
programs aimed at healing, which has drastically reduced recidivism, especially among Native Hawaiian and BIPOC youth,” states Ciciley “CC” Moore, senior program officer at W.K. Kellogg Foundation. “We are proud to partner with this effort to provide youth with a place of belonging, up- lift practices from Indigenous leaders and further advance racial equity over the next eight years.”
The initiative introduced diversion programs to ad- dress gaps in systems of care for youth ages 14-24. OYAH is committed to replacing youth incarceration with a Native Hawaiian restorative approach that empowers com- munities, trains youth healers, and shifts resources to com- munity-driven and cultural- ly grounded sanctuaries of support. In 2020, OYAH and its extended partners applied for the W.K. Kellogg Foun- dation’s global Racial Equity 2030 Challenge, an open call
for bold solutions to drive an equitable future for children, families and communities around the world. In 2022, the project known as “Kawailoa: A Transformative Indigenous Model to End Youth Incarcer- ation in Hawai‘i” was select- ed as one of five awardees and received a $20 million grant for the next eight years.
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