STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3060

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2037

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2037, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROJECT KEALAHOU,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for the continued funding of Project Kealahou within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the Department of Health.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, State of Hawaii; Department of Health; Department of Youth Services; Hawaii Youth Services Network; YWCA of Oahu; Community Alliance on Prisons; and several individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that Project Kealahou is a six-year, federally funded program that serves young women who have experienced significant trauma in their lives.  Your Committees further find that Project Kealahou helps adolescent women by providing mentoring, peer support, and specialized therapy.  This measure will ensure that Project Kealahou's critical services continue after its federal funding is phased out in October 2014.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2037, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

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JOSH GREEN, Chair