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Advocacy

  • Advocacy: Taking Action to Make a Difference - Comments (0)
  • Allegations Happen: How to Prevent and Survive Them - Comments (0)
  • Communicating through Letter Writing - Comments (0)
  • Comprehensive Health Assessment - Comments (0)
  • It’s All in the Preparation: Preventing Allegations - Comments (0)
  • Legal Resource Manual for Foster Parents - Comments (0)
  • Legal Right to Notification - Comments (0)
  • NEW LOCATION for Oahu’s Family Court - Comments (0)
  • Research on Caregivers’ Participation in Court - Comments (0)

Books

  • ITAO Book Club - Comments (0)
  • A Child’s Journey Through Placement - Comments (0)
  • Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care: A Guide for Legal Professionals - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Wisdom: A Guide to the Issues and Feelings of Adoption - Comments (0)
  • Attaching in Adoption - Comments (0)
  • Beyond the Foster Care System – the Future for Teens - Comments (0)
  • Born for Love - Comments (0)
  • Braided Cord: Tough Times In and Out - Comments (0)
  • Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children - Comments (0)
  • Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence - Comments (0)

Conference Handouts

  • `Ohana is Forever V: Our Next Steps Handouts and Links - Comments (0)
  • Education Success for Children in Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • 2011 Annual Child Welfare Law Update Conference Handouts - Comments (0)
  • Child Safety Decision-making: An Introduction to Key Concepts and Tools. - Comments (0)
  • `Ohana is Forever III Conference Handouts - Comments (0)
  • 2010 Annual Child Welfare Law Update Conference - Comments (0)
  • 2009 Annual Child Welfare Law Update Conference Handouts - Comments (0)
  • Aha Meeting Handouts - Comments (0)
  • Bias in Decision-Making: A Challenge to Color-Blindness - Comments (0)
  • January 2009 Hot Topics Conference - Comments (0)

Court/Legal

  • Act 208-Relating to Cargiver Consent - Comments (0)
  • Court Reports - Comments (0)
  • Hearing Testimony Template - Comments (0)
  • Legal Advocacy for Families and Children - Comments (0)
  • Legal Aid Advocates for Children with Special Needs - Comments (0)
  • Legal Resource Manual for Foster Parents - Comments (0)
  • Legal Right to Notification - Comments (0)
  • NEW LOCATION for Oahu’s Family Court - Comments (0)
  • Research on Caregivers’ Participation in Court - Comments (0)

DHS Policies, Procedures and Reports

  • A Guide to Child Welfare Services-Oahu - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Assistance Available to More Children - Comments (0)
  • Audit of the Foster Board Payment Program - Comments (0)
  • Authority to Provide Educational Consent - Comments (0)
  • Clarification on CWSB Administrative Review Panel - Comments (0)
  • DHS Child Welfare Services Phone List - Comments (0)
  • DHS Confidentiality Rules–Chapter 17-1601 - Comments (0)
  • DHS Mandated Reporter Guide - Comments (0)
  • DHS Organizational Chart - Comments (0)
  • DHS Policy Announcements - Comments (0)

Education

  • Helping Children with Homework and Study Habits - Comments (0)
  • Authority to Provide Educational Consent - Comments (0)
  • Education Success for Children in Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • Hands On Banking - Comments (0)
  • Head Start and Early Head Start - Comments (0)
  • Head Start Applications for 2011-2012 School Year - Comments (0)
  • Native Hawaiian Summer School Assistance - Comments (0)
  • Native Hawaiian Tutorial Project - Comments (0)
  • Planting the Seeds of Higher Education for Youth in Your Care - Comments (0)
  • Reading Aloud to Keiki - Comments (0)

Factsheets

  • Connecting With Your Teen - Comments (0)
  • Dealing With Temper Tantrums - Comments (0)
  • Everything Means Something to Me… - Comments (0)
  • Help Getting Through the Holidays - Comments (0)
  • How & Why To Read Aloud To Keiki - Comments (0)
  • How Hawaii’s New Child Protective Act Impacts YOU - Comments (0)
  • Planting the Seeds of Higher Education - Comments (0)
  • Raising Your Grandchildren - Comments (0)
  • Resilience: Every Child Has Promise - Comments (0)
  • Reweaving `Ohana Connections - Comments (0)

Financial Resources

  • Enhancement Funds Available - Comments (0)
  • 2011 Federal Tax Benefits - Comments (0)
  • Tax Information for Foster and Adoptive Parents - Comments (0)
  • Tax Issues Related to Adoption Assistance and Adoption - Comments (0)
  • Update on Adoption Tax Credit Refunds from NACAC - Comments (0)
  • Preschool Open Doors - Comments (0)
  • Hands On Banking - Comments (0)
  • Enhancement Funds for Foster Children - Comments (0)

Foster Care

  • A Child’s Journey Through the Child Welfare System - Comments (0)
  • A Commencement Address at Harvard: Insights from J.K. Rowling - Comments (0)
  • Act 208-Relating to Cargiver Consent - Comments (0)
  • Adoption and Safe Families Act - Comments (0)
  • Allegations Happen: How to Prevent and Survive Them - Comments (0)
  • Attachment 101 for Attorneys - Comments (0)
  • California Extends Benefits for Youth in Care - Comments (0)
  • Car Seat Law Goes into Effect January 1, 2007 - Comments (0)
  • Care To Share - Comments (0)
  • Chapin Hall - Comments (0)

Foster Care Basics

  • Care To Share - Comments (0)
  • Resources for Resource Caregivers - Comments (0)
  • A Child’s Journey Through the Child Welfare System - Comments (0)
  • Hui Ho`omalu Seeks Resource Families - Comments (0)
  • Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Child - Comments (0)
  • Rights of Foster Parents - Comments (0)
  • So You Want to Become a Foster Parent - Comments (0)
  • Help Getting Through the Holidays - Comments (0)

Foster Care Issues

  • Doctors Argue Against Use of Term “Meth Babies” - Comments (0)
  • Interview Process for Sexually Abused Children - Comments (0)
  • Methamphetamine-Induced Dual Diagnostic Issues - Comments (0)
  • Teen Pregnancy of Youth in Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • Womb Mates: When Sibling Rights & Child-Parent Attachment Clash - Comments (0)

Handouts/Facts

  • How & Why To Read Aloud To Keiki - Comments (0)
  • Planting the Seeds of Higher Education - Comments (0)
  • Supporting Maltreated Children: Countering the Effects of Neglect and Abuse - Comments (0)
  • `Ohana is Forever V: Our Next Steps Handouts and Links - Comments (0)
  • Education Success for Children in Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • 2011 Annual Child Welfare Law Update Conference Handouts - Comments (0)
  • Child Safety Decision-making: An Introduction to Key Concepts and Tools. - Comments (0)
  • Chapin Hall - Comments (0)
  • Connecting With Your Teen - Comments (0)
  • Dealing With Temper Tantrums - Comments (0)

Health Care

  • A New Tool to Help Families Keep Children Healthy - Comments (0)
  • Collaborative Approaches to Identifying and Serving Substance Exposed Newborns - Comments (0)
  • Comprehensive Health Assessment - Comments (0)
  • EPSDT Health Assessment - Comments (0)
  • Foster Children Qualify for WIC Services - Comments (0)
  • H-KISS Services for Children Ages 0-5 - Comments (0)
  • List of Public Health Nurses - Comments (0)
  • Mothers Speak Out - Comments (0)
  • Parent Package about Adolescents - Comments (0)
  • Project Focuses on Fetal Alcohol Disorder - Comments (0)

History

  • Sarah Casken Honored - Comments (0)

Hi‘i Na Kupuna Newsletter

  • Hi‘i Na Kupuna Newsletter - Comments (0)

ITAO Newsletter

  • Newsletter 2010 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2009 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2008 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2007 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2006 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2005 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2004 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2003 - Comments (0)

Kinship, Resiliency, and Placement Issues

  • Project Visitation–How to Recommend a Child - Comments (0)
  • A Commencement Address at Harvard: Insights from J.K. Rowling - Comments (0)
  • Attachment 101 for Attorneys - Comments (0)
  • Federal Budget Bill Cuts Services to Abused and Neglected Children - Comments (0)
  • Forced Separations and Forced Reunions in the Foster Care System - Comments (0)
  • Kinship Care Report to Congress, June 2000 - Comments (0)
  • Kinship Care: Making the Most of a Valuable Resource - Comments (0)
  • Researcher Responds to DHS Policy Presentation - Comments (0)
  • Resiliency–Finding Strength to Overcome Anything - Comments (0)
  • Some at-risk kids do ok—Why? - Comments (0)

Laws Impacting Foster Care

  • New Resource on the Fostering Connections Act - Comments (0)
  • Adoption and Safe Families Act - Comments (0)
  • California Extends Benefits for Youth in Care - Comments (0)
  • Car Seat Law Goes into Effect January 1, 2007 - Comments (0)
  • Fostering Connections to Success & Increasing Adoptions Act - Comments (0)
  • Safe and Timely Interstate Placement of Children Act of 2006 - Comments (0)
  • Act 208-Relating to Cargiver Consent - Comments (0)
  • Foster Youth Can Apply for Driver’s License under New Law - Comments (0)

News

  • Two Openings on HI H.O.P.E.S. Youth Leadership Board - Comments (0)
  • A Year with Foster Family ~ A Lifelong Template for Boy - Comments (0)
  • Support ITAO When You Shop - Comments (0)
  • Mentoring Connection links volunteers to teens in foster care - Comments (0)
  • `Ohana is Forever V: Our Next Steps Handouts and Links - Comments (0)
  • Changing the Legacy of Suicide - Comments (0)
  • Mental Health America-Hawaii’s “Finding Help Phone List” - Comments (0)
  • 2011 Annual Child Welfare Law Update Conference Handouts - Comments (0)
  • Kapiolani Mentoring Program has Openings for Foster Youth Mentees - Comments (0)
  • Understanding Adolescent Stress and Depression - Comments (0)

Newsletter

  • Hi‘i Na Kupuna Newsletter - Comments (0)
  • Resource Advisory Committee Newsletter - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2010 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2009 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2008 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2007 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2006 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2005 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2004 - Comments (0)
  • Newsletter 2003 - Comments (0)

Parent Resources

  • Healing Emotions with Art and Recreation Together (H.E.A.R.T.) - Comments (0)
  • Helping Children with Homework and Study Habits - Comments (0)
  • 2011 Federal Tax Benefits - Comments (0)
  • A New Tool to Help Families Keep Children Healthy - Comments (0)
  • Act 208-Relating to Cargiver Consent - Comments (0)
  • Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificate - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Dissolution - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Subsidy Eight Years After Adoption - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Subsidy Overview - Comments (0)

Permanency

  • Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificate - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Dissolution - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Subsidy Eight Years After Adoption - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Subsidy Overview - Comments (0)
  • Adoption Subsidy Reinstated in Missouri - Comments (0)
  • Citizenship for International Adoptees - Comments (0)
  • Comparison of Permanency Options - Comments (0)
  • Ellen Goodman: Gay adoption bias not in kids’ best interests - Comments (0)
  • Hawaii Adoption Facts - Comments (0)

RAC Newsletter

  • Resource Advisory Committee Newsletter - Comments (0)

Research

  • Chapin Hall - Comments (0)
  • Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • Data Trends on Foster Care in Hawaii 2001-2004 - Comments (0)
  • Expenditures on Children by Families - Comments (0)
  • Hale Kipa Foster Care Study - Comments (0)
  • Hawaii’s Children - Comments (0)
  • Influences on the Mental Health of Children in Foster Care - Comments (0)
  • Time for Reform: Too Many Birthdays in Foster Care - Comments (0)

Services

  • Healing Emotions with Art and Recreation Together (H.E.A.R.T.) - Comments (0)
  • HCAP Malama Pono Youth Mentoring Program - Comments (0)
  • Care To Share - Comments (0)
  • Enhancement Funds Available - Comments (0)
  • Mentoring Children of Prisoners Program - Comments (0)
  • Ohana Caregivers - Comments (0)

Welcome

  • It Takes An `Ohana Joins Family Programs Hawai`i - Comments (0)

Youth Resources

  • Healing Emotions with Art and Recreation Together (H.E.A.R.T.) - Comments (0)
  • Bed Space for Former Foster Youth - Comments (0)
  • Career Education Business Program - Comments (0)
  • Children’s Alliance of Hawai`i Programs - Comments (0)
  • Cost of Education 2010 – 2011 - Comments (0)
  • DHS Independent Living Program - Comments (0)
  • eXel – Supporting Foster Youth’s College or Vocational Training Goals - Comments (0)
  • Foster Youth Can Apply for Driver’s License under New Law - Comments (0)
  • Gear Up Hawaii–Resources for College-Bound Youth - Comments (0)
  • Hale Kipa Independent Living Program - Comments (0)
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    • January 28, 2012
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      An interactive computer exploration camp for children with disabilities and their friends/siblings that introduces them to a variety of technology concepts to increase their knowledge, skills, and self-confidence. Campers learn website development, videography, digital photography and use computer-based applications as they explore, learn, and play with.


      9:00 am - 3:00 pm, ATRC
    • February 23, 2012
      Caring for the Caregiver (Windward Oahu)

      This FREE training open to all resource, adoptive, guardianship, and kinship families will enhance your knowledge of the impact that fostering children who have experienced trauma has on you and your family and assist you in developing strategies to create better balance in your life.

      Call Jennifer Ho at 521-9531 ext.245 or email jho@familyprogramshi.org to RSVP by 2/16/12.


      5:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Faith Baptist Church
    • March 1, 2012
      Caring for the Caregiver (Maui)

      This FREE training open to all resource, adoptive, guardianship, and kinship families will enhance your knowledge of the impact that fostering children who have experienced trauma has on you and your family and assist you in developing strategies to create better balance in your life.

      RSVP required by February 23, 2012 to the Warm Line at 1-866-545-0882


      5:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Queen Lili’uokalani Children’s Center
    • March 2, 2012
      Caring for the Caregiver (Leeward Oahu)

      This FREE training open to all resource, adoptive, guardianship, and kinship families will enhance your knowledge of the impact that fostering children who have experienced trauma has on you and your family and assist you in developing strategies to create better balance in your life.

      Call Jennifer Ho at 521-9531 ext.245 or email jho@familyprogramshi.org to RSVP by 2/16/12.


      5:30 pm - 8:00 pm, Ohana Career and Learning Center
    • May 25, 2012
      Teen Day:Dream4Real

      This event that holds the power to help Hawaii foster youth create a future of hope. Youth who are eligible to attend are youth ages 14 – 16 in DHS permanent custody, guardianship as well as youth in foster care where reunification is doubtful. If they have siblings close to this age, they are also welcome to come.

      The youth’s caregiver/guardian, social worker, and GAL/VGAL are also invited! Registration forms are on page 2 and 3 of flyer. Call 540-2543 with questions.


      11:30 am - 4:00 pm, Ronald T. Y. Moon Courthouse

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