‘Ohana Connections
Inspired by Kevin Campbell’s Family Finding work on the mainland, EPIC’s ‘Ohana Connections program officially began in Hawai‘i in 2007. The core belief of the program is that all children entering foster care have the right to know and connect with their family, learn about their family history, maintain their family relationships, and belong to a family, community, and place. Like all children, they deserve to feel stable, secure, and loved.
The ‘Ohana Connections Program, working in conjunction with the ‘Ohana Finding Program, finds and engages the foster youth’s biological family and other kinship family, and then helps nurture and support those renewed family ties. The time it takes for ‘Ohana Connections work to be completed varies in length for each family, but all efforts work toward the goal of the program: to help families reweave their connections so every foster child can have relationships that last for a lifetime.
Contact Us
Connections@epicohana.org
Keola Pagud
Connections Specialist
Email: kpagud@epicohana.org
Phone: (808) 631-8063