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.
A New Tool to Help Families Keep Children Healthy
The University of Hawaii-Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawaii Initiative for Childhood Obesity Research and Education, and several local health care organizations have launched a campaign called the “Hawaii 5-2-1-0 Let’s Go Initiative” to tackle childhood obesity. read more…
Longtime local foster parent kept kids safe from horrors
Follow link for the story of one of the State of Hawai`i Department of Human Services resource caregivers, referred to as foster parent in this article, Linda Dean. “There is no happy circumstance by which a child is placed in foster care. But for nearly 900 kids over the past 19 years, there has at least been the consolation that Linda Dean and her family were there to quell their fears, tend to their hurts and make “the system” feel a lot more like that thing called home. ” read more…
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Car Seat Law Goes into Effect January 1, 2007
Requires children between the ages of four through seven to ride in a booster seat whenever traveling in a motor vehicle.
Fostering Connections to Success & Increasing Adoptions Act
On October 7, 2008, President George Bush signed into law the most significant improvement to child welfare services in over a decade. As a result of the new law (P.L. 110-351), federal Title IV-E supports are now available for states to promote kinship and guardianship care, and states will also have the option to extend supports for foster youth up to age 21.
Safe and Timely Interstate Placement of Children Act of 2006
This new federal law has a number of key provisions that affect foster parents.