Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 34, Number 8, 1 ʻAukake 2017 — NĀNĀKULI HOUSING CORPORATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NĀNĀKULI HOUSING CORPORATION

$318,000 Na Kūkulukumuhana is a project that provides hnaneial and homeownership training to Native Hawaiian households with low to moderate ineome to increase their eeonomie self-sufficiency. NHC expects to provide training and counseling to over 400 Native Hawaiians over the next two years through financial literacy workshops, home repair classes and case management to develop individual service plans based on participants' needs and financial situations. Participants who complete the training receive certificates that ean be used to obtain assistance from any HUD-based First Time Homebuyer Program. G00DWILL INDUSTRIES 0F HAWAI'I, INC. $720,000 The Career Pathways Program: Employment and Career Support Services for Native Hawaiians is a collaboration between Goodwill, the University of Hawai'i community colleges and loeal employers. Over the next two years, 240 eligible Hawaiians will be helped through the program, whieh broadens access to post-secondary education with an emphasis on shorter-term vocational programs that result in higher-wage employment. The program offers job readiness training, financial literacy, educational support and job placement in Honolulu, Hilo, Kona, Maui and Kaua'i. Loeal employers will be engaged to create job opportunities, as well as ensure their workforce training needs are being met. Y0UNG WOMEN'8 CHRISTIAN ASS0CIATI0N 0F O'AHU $280,000 Einaneial Readiness for Native Hawaiian Women will help Native Hawaiian women develop the tools they need to live independently after prison through re-entry and work furlough services, as well as transitional housing. Generally, participants will be transferred from the Women's Community Correctional Center to YWCA Fernhurst for a six month program. Onee they complete that program and are paroled, participants ean also move into transitional housing for up to six months. Aspects ofYWCA's program also include continuing education, a job search accelerator program and ho'oponopono training to address conflicts with family members and friends.

P.O. Box 17489 Honolulu, Hl 96789 (808) 842-0770 alohakap@gmail.com

2610 Kilihau Street Honolulu, Hl 96819 (808) 836-0313 info@higoodwill.org

1040 Richards Street Honolulu, Hl 96813 (808) 538-7061 info@ywcaoahu.org

Photo: Pinaneial and homeownership training prepares families to buy homes, and mainiain them.

Photo: Cody-Fay Corbett, program participant, with her Goodwill Hawaii employment coun$elor Siniva Pota.

Photo: Y]<VCA Fernhurst re$ident$ participate in Mother Daughter gardening day at Fernhurst.