The Family Resource Center is a hub of resources, referrals, and information.
We provide community-based services that are free, confidential, and strength-based. From pregnancy through the adolescent years, we are here to support you.
When you join the Family Resource Center you have access to the following services at no cost:
Monthly:
Diapers & wipes
Children’s clothing
Hygiene kit
As Requested:
Parenting education
Our Parenting Education services work to create positive, nurturing relationships. Our staff work with families wherever they call home. We can also connect utilizing virtual tools such as Zoom.
Therapy services
Counseling services are provided to families with underage children to increase overall health, resilience, and wellbeing.
Assistance connecting to housing resources
For families experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness
Community referrals & connection
Times:
The Family Resource Center is open
Monday and Wednesday 8am-4pm
Drop-in Therapy:
Tuesday from 8am-4pm
Would you or a love one like to participate in free services?
Email family@neighborhoodplace.org, or apply now by clicking the button below.
Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana
Ho`ōla Pilina `Ohana Program
The Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana program offers culturally based counseling services families living in Puna and South Hilo. These counseling services are provided bilingually — in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and/or English, as appropriate — to families with underage children to increase overall health, resilience, and wellbeing of entire ʻOhana in addressing issues arising from day-to-day life stressors, multigenerational trauma, cultural identity issues and how it affects the pilina (relationships) within the ʻOhana and itʻs overall pono (proper) functioning.
Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana literally translates into “there is life in relationships and family.” The term Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana for this specific project was created from a kaona (hidden meaning) perspective, given the hidden translation to preserve overall well being through all relationships that connect us. These relationships could be those more obvious to the human eye like the connection between keiki (children) and mākua (parents) or ʻohana (family) and kaiāulu (community); these relationships could also refer to the connections between kanaka (individual) and moʻomeheu (culture), kanaka (individual) and the ʻāina (land), as well as ʻOhana (family) and ʻaumākua (ancestors) and everything else in between that connects us. Native Hawaiians were very much connected to one-another, to the culture, language, the land, all living beings etc. It is almost entirely innate for Native Hawaiians to have various healthy connections and relationships to keep them grounded, balanced and secure. Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana program vision is influenced by the generational and historical trauma native Hawaiians have experienced through colonization, creating various obstacles related but not limited to historical trauma and cultural loss, educational barriers, and socioeconomic and health disparities.
Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana is a free professional clinical therapeutic offering available in both English and ‘Olelo Hawai’i.
Would you, a friend or a client you serve benefit from participating in the Ho’ola Pilina ‘Ohana Program? Apply online now. For more information about Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana program, call (808)965-5550 or email ohana@neighborhoodplace.org
Community Resilience
Since 2002 Neighborhood Place of Puna has been working to support families in raising strong, happy, and healthy keiki. Our community members face many struggles including poverty, systematic racism, historical trauma, and alienation. All of...
Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana
Ho`ōla Pilina `Ohana Program The Hoʻōla Pilina ʻOhana program offers culturally based counseling services families living in Puna and South Hilo. These counseling services are provided bilingually — in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and/or English,...
Family Resource Center
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Hale ‘Iki Family Assessment Center
Ending Family Homelessness In the summer of 2019 Neighborhood Place of Puna was blessed to work in partnership with other non-profit agencies, communities of faith and government to open the first and only family...
Hale ‘Iki Family Assessment Center
Ending Family Homelessness
In the summer of 2019 Neighborhood Place of Puna was blessed to work in partnership with other non-profit agencies, communities of faith and government to open the first and only family emergency shelter in Puna. Hale ‘Iki Family Assessment Center consists of nine small homes that can accommodate up to four family members. This housing first based program provides emergency shelter to families experiencing homelessness. Families at Hale Iki are provided housing navigation, tenancy skills training, and case management to help move them from homelessness and into stable housing as quickly as possible.
A hale unit at Hale Iki Family Assessment Center. Each hale has four beds, larger families have used two units at a time when necessary. Neighborhood Place of Puna has helped dozens of families with children recover from experiencing homelessness in the last year.
Neighborhood Place of Puna is committed to ensuring that no family – and certainly no child – experiences homelessness in Hawaii County.
Homelessness can have lifelong negative developmental and health impacts on a child. Children who experience homelessness are more vulnerable to child abuse and neglect. The longer a child remains homeless, the more bleak the outcome. Children raised in persistent poverty, including periods of homelessness, are less likely to finish school. They are at higher risk for incarceration, teen pregnancy/parenthood, substance abuse, and a life of poverty.
Neighborhood Place of Puna believes that we can end family homelessness in Hawaii County and that doing so is a moral imperative!
To this end:
We work directly with homeless families to connect them with emergency shelter, permanent housing, and the supports they need to remain housed.
We work with local churches to identify emergency short term shelter and support to homeless families who have nowhere else to go.
We work with Communities of Faith, businesses, and Social Welfare groups to address the lack of affordable housing for families.
We work to address the underlying causes of family homelessness and poverty.
Neighborhood Place of Puna needs your help. Please make a donation today to support our homeless families and the work that we do to ensure that no child has to experience homelessness.
Four of nine shelter units
If you or a family you know are experiencing homelessness contact us at 965-5550 to see if we can support you with housing or family strengthening services.
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When you donate to Neighborhood Place of Puna you are making a significant impact on keiki and families in your community. Neighborhood Place of Puna provides many family and community support services to the Puna community. Your tax-deductible donations make a direct impact in our community by increasing our ability to provide supportive services to families in need.
An ongoing monthly donation of $20 can provide a family with the opportunity to participate in our Family Strengthening Program. A $100 monthly donation covers maintanence costs for one family-of-four housing unit. Your ongoing donations can help support protective programs for local families we serve in Hilo and Puna.
Make a sustainable monthly donation to NPP to make the greatest impact to help families in need.
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