Hawaii Youth Services Network

What We Do

Our Purpose
Children and youth live in our communities. We must recognize and value them as community assets and include them in decisions that affect their lives in communities, school systems, churches and in our public policy decision-making.

We must meaningfully engage youth in all aspects of community life.

Through recreation, education, prevention, treatment, outreach, counseling and shelter programs, HYSN supports youth and families and seeks to build stronger communities. Through our shared advocacy on behalf of youth, HYSN seeks to educate our communities and our decision-makers. Through our networking, HYSN seeks to build collaborations that provide for increased effectiveness and decreased costs of youth services

Networking and Coalition Building

HYSN believes in the power of working together for social change and mutual support. HYSN currently participates in the following inter-agency coalitions, task forces, and committees:

Sexual Violence Prevention Planning Committee
PHOCUSED (Protecting Hawaii’s Ohana Children Under Served Elderly and Disabled)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Task Force
Chlamydia Task Force
Hawaii Alliance of non-profit Organizations (HANO)
Healthy Youth Hawaii
Keiki Caucus Resource Group
keiki Summit Planning Committee

Cause Areas

Keiki, Social Services