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Support ITAO When You Shop

Did you know that when you go to Amazon.com through a link on either the  Family Programs Hawai‘i (FPH)  or It Takes An ‘Ohana (ITAO) website, every purchase you make during that session will benefit  ITAO’s program without adding one cent onto your cost? Once...

Unfamiliar Fishes

[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”1594487871″ desc=”0″] Keeping a child connected to his or her culture is very important, especially children involved in out of home care.  This book can help us better understand our host culture’s history, thus...

Mentoring Connection links volunteers to teens in foster care

A 2008 study published in Pediatrics used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to determine if foster youth with adult mentors have a smoother transition to adulthood.  The results indicate that mentored youth report better health, less...

Parenting From the Inside Out

[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”1585422959″ desc=”0″]How many parents have found themselves thinking: I can’t believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I just destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents? In...

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”0465056539″ desc=”0″]Assisted by a talented science writer, child psychiatrist Bruce Perry presents a series of heartbreaking stories of children severely damaged by trauma. But that’s only one side of this...