The Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence is comprised of at least 20 domestic violence agencies and programs throughout the state of Hawaii, which accounts for the majority of domestic violence agencies and programs in the state.
Below you will find a list of the agencies and programs, with their contact information and program descriptions. Feel free to contact the agencies and/or programs directly should you require their services.
Hours of operation: 24-hr/7 days a week
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7022, Hilo, Hawaii 96720
Phone Numbers: (808) 959-8864 (24-hr. hotline): (808) 959-6118 (office); (808) 959-9837 (fax)
Website: http://www.cfs-hawaii.org
Hale ‘Ohana provides a safe haven for abused partners and their children. There is also a 24-hour hotline for domestic violence information and referrals, support groups, and transportation and support services.
Turning Point For Families provides Domestic Violence Intervention Services for the whole family. These services include a Psycho-educational group for batterers, support and changing groups for victims, anger management and Social Skills Building Groups for children and adolescents, Therapeutic Groups for children who are victims of/or witnesses to domestic violence, Parenting Programs, Rural Outreach Services for isolated victims, and a Hawaiian Demonstration Research Program for Hawaiian batterers and victims. They also provide TRO services and court advocacy for victims.
The YWCA of Kauai has been operating a Domestic Violence Intervention Program since 1986. The program is 26 weeks in length. Groups are limited to 10 participants each and are co-lead by two facilitators. Anger management is only a small part of the program; it also includes communication skills, self-care, education about the role of Power and Control dynamics in Domestic Violence, personal accountability is stressed through exposing blame. minimization and denial. Male re-socialization is also addressed. There is a strong Victim Safety component to the program
The YWCA offers a 24-hour domestic violence/sexual assault crisis line; a 24-hour crisis response team for sexual assault; safety planning, safe shelter for female victims and their minor children; counseling, advocacy, referrals, support/empowerment groups and domestic violence education. Non-attorney legal advocates assist with TRO preparation, court escort and court advocacy.
Child advocates review for developmental milestones and facilitate age appropriate, constructive playgroups for children to address the affects of domestic violence on children. The Program provides training and education on domestic violence in schools and the community and collaborates with community agencies for social change to fulfill the Program’s mission.
Women Helping Women
Hours of operation Monday – Friday, 8:30am-5pm
Mailing Address: PO Box 631067, Lanai City, Hawaii 96763
Phone Numbers: (808) 565.6700
Email: lanai@whwmaui.net
Women Helping Women (WHW) provides assistance to those individuals (petitioners) on Lanai who need Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO’s), as well as accompanying petitioners to Family Court and providing advocacy before, during and after their hearing. WHW also provides individual counseling, case management, crisis intervention, shelter services, and outreach and education.
Child and Family Service offer’s a wide range of services that include men’s and women’s support groups, children’s groups, an adolescent group, and men and women’s anger management groups. These groups are island-wide, including some in Hana. They also assist petitioners with the TRO filing and process.
Women Helping Women/Shelter (also serves victims on Lanai)
Hours of operation: 24/7 Shelter;
Administration, TRO, and Transitions Project: Monday – Friday, 8am-4pm
Mailing Address: 1935 Main Street Suite 202, Wailuku, Hawaii 96793
Phone Numbers: (808) 242-6600, (808) 249-8147 (fax), (808) 579-9581 (Hotline)
Email: info@whwmaui.net
Website: http://www.whwmaui.net
Shelter:
Women Helping Women Hale Lokomaika’i shelter and support programs are comprised of Hale Lokomaika’i emergency shelter for battered women and their children, a Domestic Violence Hotline, Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) preparation and court advocacy, community-based domestic violence education/support groups for women and children, positive parenting groups, and a Transitions Project.
Programs:
Women Helping Women (WHW) provides assistance to those individuals (petitioners) on Maui who need Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO’s). WHW also accompanies petitioners to Family Court and provides advocacy before, during and after their hearing. The Transitions Project provides direct assistance to homeless battered women to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency including rental deposits, childcare, medical attention, and college tuition and books. Participants may remain in the program for up to two years. This project is specifically designed for women who are out of their abusive relationship.
Women Helping Women (Lahaina)
West Maui Domestic Violence Advocacy Center: (808) 661-7111
email: westmaui@whwmaui.net
Women Helping Women (WHW) provides assistance to those individuals (petitioners) on Maui's West Side who need Temporary Restraining Orders (TRO's), as well as accompanying petitioners to Family Court and providing advocacy before, during and after their hearing. WHW also provides individual support groups, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, shelter services, and outreach and education.
Hale Ho’omalu provides safety and support to women and their children with shelter services, advocates in the court rooms and assistance with the TRO process, case management and follow up sessions, and support groups for victims. The Molokai Alternatives to Violence (ATV) program provides group sessions on anger management and domestic violence to court ordered clients. They also have groups for juvenile court ordered clients.
Provides therapeutic services, intervention and support for child sexual assault, victims, perpetrators, non-offending partners and siblings. Batterers’ Intervention Program and DV Victim Support Services (case management is not provided). Individual and Family counseling and specialized therapeutic support groups.
Child and Family Service - DOV
Hours of operation: Monday-Thursday, 8:30am-6:00pm, Friday, 8:30am-12:00noon
Mailing Address: 245 N. Kukui Street #206, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
Phone Numbers: 532-5100, 841-0822 (24-hr hotline), 532-5100 (fax)
Website: http://www.cfs-hawaii.org
Child and Family Service provides a domestic violence group session for both men and women victims. They also provide Domestic Violence Intervention Groups for perpetrators, Violence Control Groups for perpetrators (non-intimate), and Domestic Violence Support Group/Victim’s Children’s Program for child witnesses of domestic violence.
Child and Family Service
Mailing Address: 91-1841 Fort Weaver Road, Ewa Beach, Hawaii 96706
Phone Numbers: 841-0822, 737-5517 (fax)
Email: glott@cfs-hawaii.org
DVCLH is a statewide resource for social service providers, educators, health professionals, therapists, attorneys, employers and civic groups. They provide a legal hotline; legal representation in family court actions involving divorce, custody, protection orders, and post decree matters; advocacy for individual victims; case management for up to one year for clients on their civil caseload, victim partners of convicted domestic violence misdemeanants, and hotline callers in crisis; outreach in civil court for petitioners seeking protection orders; outreach in criminal court for witnesses in abuse cases; advocacy and outreach to teen victims of dating violence; community education and material development; emergency cash grants for eligible applicants; and outreach to restraining order petitioners to educate them on how to implement their restraining order or to increase their safety.
Legal Aid Society of Hawaii (LASH) - Waianae Branch
Hours of operation: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Mailing Address: 924 Bethel Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Phone Numbers: 536-4302; 1-800-499-4302 (toll free); 527-8088 (fax); 527-8000 (24-hr recorded scripts in the area of Family, Bankruptcy, Housing, and Domestic Violence law and information)
Email: wlash@pixi.com
Legal Aid Society provides free legal service for the income eligible, in which they follow federal poverty guidelines, and free legal services to victims of domestic violence who are welfare recipients and have requested the “domestic violence exemption” to welfare work rules. However, the client must first attempt to obtain free legal services before this particular grant will apply. Legal Aid will provide representation at administrative hearings, district, circuit, and family court, and will give assistance with form and exhibit preparation. Legal services provided by Legal Aid, excluding those that deal with Domestic Violence, are for civil matters only in which no legal services can be provided to incarcerate individuals or undocumented aliens. They will also contract with the Judiciary to provide Guardian Ad Litem services in Child Welfare Services. Legal Aid annually provides training for public benefits and other areas of poverty law, to members of other agencies.
Na Loio Immigrant Rights and Public Interest Legal Center
Na Loio is a statewide legal services agency. It provides legal assistance on immigration and immigration-related issues for indigent immigrants who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, as well as human trafficking. It also offers brief legal advice on these issues over the phone to abused immigrants, service providers, agencies and others, regardless of income.
Parents and Children Together (PACT)
Hours of operation: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Mailing Address: 1485 Linapuni Street, Suite 105, Honolulu, Hawaii 96819
Phone Number: 847-3285 (fax), 841-1485
Email:
admin@pacthawaii.org
PACT website www.pacthawaii.org
Pu'uhonua Kaka`ako Commerce Center 875 Waimano Street, Suite 640
Honolulu , HI 96813
Phone: 585-7944
Fax: 585-7955
Center Hours: M – F, 7:30 am – 4:30 pm; Outreach Hours: M – F, 4:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Email: puu@pacthawaii.org
Pu’uhonua is a one stop drop-in center for victims of domestic violence, providing crisis intervention and counseling, legal services, advocacy, education, and childcare. The program is a collaborative effort with the Honolulu Police Department. Services are provided at Pu`uhonua’s Honolulu office, and at various locations throughout Oahu.
Ohia Domestic Violence Shelter
Phone: 526-2200
The Ohia Shelter located in Windward Oahu is a 24-hour shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. The shelter provides individual and group meetings, personal development classes, and refers victims for legal, health, and housing assistance, and financial resources. The shelter also provides women support groups that empower adults with the dynamics of the cycle of abuse, power and control, effective communication, dealing with anger, anger management, the effects of abuse on children, self-esteem, developing healthy relationships, child development and effective parenting skills. The advocates at the shelter work closely with the residents on safety planning and individualized service plans, and also accompany residents to court appointments to provide support and assistance to them.
Family Peace Center Hours of operation: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm ( main office );
Group times vary Monday-Saturday, 8:30am-8:30pm
Mailing Address: 1485 Linapuni St. Suite 105, Honolulu, Hawaii 96819
Phone Numbers: 832-0855, 832-0853 (fax); 832-0848 (TDD)
Email: fpc@pacthawaii.org
The Family Peace Center offers programs for adults and children in order to provide peace to Hawaii’s families by offering safety, support, empowerment and accountability to survivors, offenders, and child witnesses to domestic violence. The three program components are The Maluhia Victim/Survivor Family Component which serves survivors of domestic violence, The Komo Mai Offenders Component which works with offenders of intimate partner violence as well as offenders of household or non-partner abuse, and The Haupoa Family Component which works with children who have witnessed domestic violence
in the family. The Family Peace center also provides education and intervention services in the schools, along with community education and professional/para-professional training. They serve all of Oahu and utilize off-site facilities around the island to provide services in the communities of East and West Honolulu, Pearl City, Waipahu, Waianae, Kailua, and Kaneohe. Most of the services at the Family Peace Center are held in a group counseling setting, with individual counseling provided as needed.
Some services are on a sliding fee scale, but no one is denied service based on ability to pay.
Victim/Witness Kokua Svcs/ Dept. of the Prosecuting Attorney
The main goal of the Victim/Witness Kokua Services is to provide specialized services to victims/witness of violent crimes who are going through the criminal justice system. These crimes include assaults, sexual assaults, terroristic threatening, kidnapping, reckless endangering, spouse/partner abuse, child abuse, and elder abuse. Surviving family members of homicide, manslaughter, and negligent homicide cases also receive support service and case information. These services include Orientation to the Criminal Justice System, Crisis Counseling, assistance with filing a Misdemeanor Criminal Complaint, Case Status Information, Court Accompaniment, Social Service Referrals, and an Application for Crime Victims Compensation. Upon written request, victims of a violent crime and surviving family members may be entitled to be informed about the final disposition of the case, court continuances, social services available to victims, and to be provided with a secure waiting area during court proceedings. If the crime charged is a felony, victims of violent crime and surviving family members may be entitled to additional rights such as being informed of when the defendant is released from custody, case status and hearing dates, and consultation and advice on plea bargaining.
If you are in a crisis situation and require immediate assistance, dial 911 or the 24-hour shelter hotline on your island:
Hilo: 959-8864 Kauai: 245-6362 Kona: 322-SAFE (7233) Maui/Lanai: 579-9581
Molokai: 567-6888 Oahu: 841-0822 (Town/Leeward) 526-2200 (Windward)
