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Help Your Keiki

https://www.helpyourkeiki.com/

The Help Your Keiki webpage is a website for parents, by parents in collaboration with the State of Hawaii’s Evidence Based Services (EBS) Committee. Since 1999, the Evidence‐Based Services (EBS) Committee has been promoting best practices to serve children and adolescents with mental health needs. With that goal in mind, the EBS committee developed this website. Parents and caregivers can use this website at every stage of addressing their child’s difficulties.

Windward Oahu Eviction Prevention

For questions or inquiries relating to the Windward Oahu Eviction Prevention, please contact Jill Tokuda at 808-383-8690 or via email at jntokuda@gmail.com.  Jill is serving the HKL Castle Foundation as a consultant for this program.

http://castlefoundation.org/2021-windward-oahu-eviction-prevention-program/2021-eviction-prevention/

DOE Free Grab-and-Go Meals program extended through July 19, 2021

https://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/ConnectWithUs/MediaRoom/PressReleases/Pages/Summer-Meals-Program-begins-June-4-for-all-children-ages-18-and-younger.aspx

Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn 

https://nursing.hawaii.edu/hawaii-keiki/, Phone: (808) 956-8522

The program is enhancing and building school based health services that screen for treatable health conditions; provide referral to primary health care and patient centered medical home services; prevent and control communicable disease and other health problems; and provide emergency care for illness or injury.

Services being provided to students and what’s available to them:

o Injuries

o Illnesses

o Health guidance

o Long-term management of health conditions

o Assessment

o Treatment

o Communication with parents

o Referral to physicians

o Medication administration

- Screenings

o Vision (every other year) Try to do this fall

o Hearing (Opt in- Find out in July if there is funding)

o Dental sealants screening and treatment (2nd  grade- opt in)

o Body mass index screening

- Preventive services

o Early identification of problems

o Initiation of interventions

Acute conditions

Chronic conditions

- Promote health and safety

o Health ed

Health Hotline will continue into the summer. 

COVID Nurse: Each complex area has one. They are registered nurses and also see sick, ill, injured students at the school. They are purchased with the CARES act. They also get together with covid team at our school monthly. Contact your school to get more information, and the name and contact information for the COVID nurse is for your complex area.

Hawaii CARES

Crisis Line 808 832-3100 (Oahu) or 800 753-6879 (Toll Free or Neighbor Islands), 24 hours a day/7 days a week

For those experiencing a crisis, or are in need of substance abuse treatment or mental health services. 

The Hawai’i Coordinated Access Resource Entry System (CARES), or Hawai’i CARES, is a collaboration between the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) and the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM) Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work (MBTSSW).  UHM MBTSSW was awarded a contract from Department of Health (DOH), Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) to develop, plan, and implement Hawai’i CARES, the state’s new multiple entry-point and coordinating center for behavioral health services including substance use disorder (SUD), mental health, and crisis intervention services.  

For more information about Hawai’i CARES, please email hicares@hawaii.edu

For more information on behavioral health services and referrals on O’ahu, please call (808) 832-3100 (Neighbor Island residents, call toll free at 1-800-753-6879), or reach us by fax at (808) 453-6994.

http://manoa.hawaii.edu/cares/