Hawai‘i Youth Services Network
Providing Leadership
Encouraging Collaboration
Creating Partnerships
The Mission of the Hawaii Youth Services Network
Networking youth serving organizations to provide leadership, encourage collaboration, create partnerships, and promote youth voice in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands
The Hawaii Youth Services Network believes that the children and youth of Hawaii are our future. The way we treat them today, the opportunities we provide to them and the investments we make in their development will influence the kind of adults they will become.
Children and youth live and participate in our communities. We must recognize and value them as community assets. We need to include youth in decisions that affect their lives in communities, school systems, churches, and in public policy decision making.
We must meaningfully engage youth in all aspects of community life.
Hawaii Youth Services Network
Personnel
Sonia Blackiston
Executive Director
Kierra Thompson
Administrative Operations Specialist
Margaret Cadiz
HISYNC/HILYNC Program Manager
Malia Pacris
Interim Runaway and Homeless Youth Program Director
Youth Development and Communications Coordinator
Nicole Cowan
Runaway and Homeless Youth Program Director
(Temporary Leave of Absence)
Hawaii Youth Services Network
Board of Directors
President
Cyd Hoffeld
Community Health Educator Supervisor: Hawaii Island Community Health Center
Vice President
Jefferson Gourley
Executive Director: Get Ready Hawaii
Secretary
Andre Fraticelli
Behavioral Health Program Manager: Aloha Care
Interim Treasurer
Paul Tonnesen
Retired Executive Director: Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui
DIRECTORS AT LARGE
Chelene Arnold
Program Director: Maui Youth And Family Services
Roxanne Costa
Executive Director: Salvation Army Family Intervention Services (Hilo)
Laura Brucia Hamm
Chief Quality Improvement Officer: Hale Kipa
Susana Helm
Susana Helm Consulting
Sione Ford Naeata
Executive Director: Bobby Benson Center
Vonn Ramos
Executive Director: Hale ‘Opio Kauai