Child Abuse and Neglect
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.
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 MÄlama* – 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)
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- 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)
- Safe and Sound* - Therapeutic services to victims of intrafamilial child sexual abuse.
- Counseling Program - Individual, marital, and family counseling, and crisis intervention services. Information, referral, and emergency assistance are also available. (Referrals welcome)
Statewide Resource Families* – Provides an integrated and community-based approach to identify, recruit, assess, train, and license child-specific resource families throughout the State of Hawai‘i.
*Referral from state or federal agency required.