Honolulu Community Action Program

This was Honolulu Community Action Program Youth Services’ sixteenth program year, providing competency-based education instruction (C-Base), work readiness training, and work experience for youth (ages 16–24) that have not succeeded in mainstream high school. The overall goal is to help students earn a Hawaii Adult Community School Diploma and move into the workforce. While working towards a diploma, students are provided one-on-one tutoring to improve math, language, writing, and communication skills. Work readiness training focuses on workforce preparation, interpersonal skills, customer service, and decision-making skills. Students are placed in on-the-job training as an unsubsidized or volunteer worker to assist in obtaining full-time employment. Funding from the Cooke Foundation provided for bus passes, as well other program necessities, for students to attend C-Base and/or employment as all of the youth served are from low-income families and cannot afford transportation costs. By removing this barrier, education and employment retention increases.

The goal of the Honolulu Community Action Program Youth Services is to help students that are not succeeding in mainstream high school earn a Hawaii Adult Community School Diploma.

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