It Takes an 'Ohana
Hawaii's Foster Care ResourceIt Takes an ‘Ohana is a program of Family Programs Hawaii. We provide the latest news in foster care and updates to Hawaii’s child welfare laws. For more information on foster care and strengthening families in Hawaii, visit our main website by clicking the button below.
The FPH Warmline is now up and running!
Please pass this wonderful news to everyone! The correct FPH Warm Line numbers to use are (808) 545-1130 on Oahu and 1-866-545-0882 for our Neighbor Island `Ohana.
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2013 Tax Information for Foster Care
Unique tax rules affect resource, foster, kinship care, and adoptive families. The best information regarding these tax rules that we have seen so far this year come from NYS Citizens’ Coalition for Children’s website. Follow link for more info.
Choose Respect
The state of Alaska is calling upon the Gov. to incorporate parts of a new study into their child welfare agency that will provide sufficient support to child welfare workers. The plan they have come up with based on research makes a lot of sense. Follow link to learn more.
To the End of June
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care, looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children at the critical points in their search for a stable, loving family.