Child Abuse and Neglect
Early Identification (EID) – A referral service that assesses parents of newborn infants at all non-military O‘ahu hospitals to determine if the family needs further service and information on healthy child development from the Healthy Start home visiting program.
EID Brochure 
Ka Mālama Pūnua* (KMP) – Provides compassionate services to help support and strengthen families. Ka Mālama Pūnua, part of the statewide Healthy Start network, is a home visiting program for families with children from birth to 3 years old. The program offers child development information by helping families learn how to care for children and gain a better understanding of how children learn and grow. KMP works with families to ensure the optimal growth and development of each infant, reduce family stress, and promote positive family relationships. KMP serves North Shore, Wahiawa, and Hawai‘i Kai communities. (Healthy Start EID referral needed)
Ka Mālama Pūnua Brochure
Enhanced Healthy Start (EHS) – Provides home visiting and support services through a team approach that works with biological families as well as foster parents to promote and enhance healthy child development, increase healthy family functioning, and decrease the risk factors for child abuse and neglect. EHS services are available to families with children up to the age of 3, who are currently involved in the Child Welfare System, and who meet environmental risk criteria.
Enhanced Healthy Start brochure
Interstate Compact Services on the Placement of Children* – Monitors and ensures safe and stable placement of children in foster or relative care across state lines. Home study and case management services for children placed on O'ahu who are being reunified with biological parents or who are being considered for foster, adoptive or relative placement. (State referrals only)
Hale Mālama* – Specialized foster care for medically fragile or drug exposed infants and counseling for biological parents with the goal of reunification with their family or placement for adoption. (State referrals only)
Comprehensive Counseling & Support Services* – Provides professional counseling, case management, and crisis intervention services as well as para-professional outreach, support, and visitation services to families with a history of child abuse and neglect. Trained therapists make home visits to provide home-based treatment and support to the family and assist with parenting and interaction skills. The outreach workers also provide transportation and supervision for visitations between parents and children who have been temporarily separated by court order. (State referrals only)
Lauren Chelec/Catholic Charities USA
- Voluntary Case Management Unit* - Provides assessment, case planning, crisis intervention, and visitation services on a voluntary basis to children who are at risk of being abused or neglected and to their families.
Therapeutic Services:
- Child Sex Abuse Treatment* – Counseling to victims of sexual abuse and their families, juvenile sex offenders, and adult sex offenders who are on probation. (State referrals only)
- Counseling Program – Individual, marital, and family counseling, and crisis intervention services. Information, referral, and emergency assistance are also available. (Referrals welcome)
- Victim Assistance Program - Intervention and evaluation for children who have been molested. (Referrals welcome)
Statewide Resource Families* – Provides an integrated and community-based approach to identify, recruit, assess, train, and license child specific foster/resource families throughout the state of Hawai‘i.
*Referral from state or federal agency required.