Effective Planning and Innovative Communication

Coordinated and facilitated 834 families with ohana conferences and 1,092 individuals with youth circles. The organization completed 947 family conferences for ohana conferences and 251 conferences for youth circles. Epic trainings were conducted throughout the state for social workers and community members. Family finding services were provided to 332 families, and family connections services to 13 families.hi hopes boards and community partnership boards were established in all counties to improve services for foster youth. Epic continues to be the lead agency for the hi hopes initiative (formerly known as the Hawaii youth opportunities initiative). 19 youth/young adults statewide participated as council members; 59 youth/young adults and council members received leadership skill development training; 423 foster and former foster youth/young adults participated in conferences, trainings or activities in collaboration with the hi hopes council.wraparound services were provided to 54 families on oahu and Hawaii island with 519 meetings with families.the independent living collaborator (ilc) program created and maintains the foster hope Hawaii mobile app to help young people and stakeholders connect to resources. There were 90 ilc partnership meetings and 1 ilc statewide convening. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, in-person meetings were held virtually with 126 attendees.