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Foster Family Programs |
Prevents Foster Care
Supports Families and Children in Foster Care
Helps Youth become self-sustaining citizens
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Receiving Home For Children in Wai`anae is Breaking Ground |
Children are separated from their parents for a variety of reasons, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, substance abuse and abandonment. They are often moved from foster home to foster home until they finally age out of the foster care system. Then they are at even greater risk of becoming homeless, as they often do not posses the skills and resources to live on their own.
This scenario is all too common in the Wai`anae community. FFP, with the support of one of its major donors Mike Wood and family, the Department of Human Services, and other community groups, is opening a receiving home in Ma`ile for children entering the child welfare system. The receiving home, named Ho`omalu O Na Kamili`i, is breaking ground this month and is scheduled to open by April 1, 2009. It will accommodate 15 children, ages 3-17. The home will provide 24/7 staffing, access to social workers and other health professionals, and all the amenities of home. Here children will be able to remain in their home school while they are assessed and transitioned into safe and loving permanent homes. 
Foster Family Programs is accepting cash donations and new items of clothing, toys, blankets, household items and furnishings. For more information on items needed for the home or for upcoming volunteer opportunities at the home call 521-9531 ext. 224. To give a cash donation, visit the Donate link on this website.
For a link to the Honoulu Advertiser story covering Ho`omalu O Na Kamili`i, click here page 1 and page 2.
2008 Bank of
Hawaii Charity Walk Raises $100,000 for
Foster Family Programs of Hawaii and Catholic Charities
Hawaii
Foster Family Programs is one of two O`ahu based charities to receive generous donations this weekend thanks to the employees at Bank of Hawaii. Over 2,500 Bank of Hawaii employees voted on which charities the proceeds will benefit.
More than a thousand Bank of Hawaii employees took part in a charity walk this weekend raising $100,000. The 1.8 mile walk around
Kapiolani
Park started at 7:30 a.m. and was followed by live music, breakfast and a centipede contest. Catholic Charities Hawaii and Foster Family Programs of Hawaii each received a $50,000 donation.
"$50,000 is going to go a long way in helping the children that we work with. Bank of Hawaii raising this money is just fantastic and we really appreciate it," said
Linda Santos .
In 2007 we created the Bank of Hawaii Charity Walk to help support a
Hawaii charity that might not have the resources or infrastructure to hold a fundraising walk of its own. Bank of Hawaii employees take an active role in the event by selecting the beneficiaries, conducting fundraising activities and participating in the walk itself. This year's walk will benefit five nonprofit organizations that address housing needs across the state of
Hawaii explains Bankoh spokeswoman Nancy Usui.
(From left): Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation President Donna Tanoue, Bank of Hawaii President Peter Ho with his son Kahn, and Bank of Hawaii Chairman and CEO Al Landon (far right), presented a $100,000 check to Catholic Charities Hawaii President & CEO Jerry Rauckhorst (middle) and Foster Family Programs of Hawaii President and CEO
Linda Santos (second from right). Each organization received $50,000 from the Bank of Hawaii Charity Walk.
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