Nest For Families provides a network for parents to connect with other parents with similar situations.
Service Providers
Information, resources, events, webinars, and more for service providers to help our families nurture daily using the five protective factors.
Keiki Heroes Teach Kids How to Stay Safe During the Pandemic
Learn How to Keep Your Child Safe During the Pandemic.
Behavioral Health & Homelessness Resources for Providers During the Pandemic in Hawaii
A statewide unified response group has been created in Hawaii to address reducing the spread of COVID-19 among the homeless and behavioral health population and to provide resources for service providers.
How to Help Kids and Parents Feel Heard
Download this PDF to help teach your child to communicate and express their feelings.
Domestic Abuse Power and Control Wheel
Use the Power and Control Wheel to Explain Domestic Abuse. Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs was created to help victims of domestic violence. Download the power and control wheel to inform and educate your clients.
Keiki Safety Tips
Learn how to keep your children safe while they’re at home or while they’re traveling.
The Free Vroom App – Building Healthy Brains with Your Children
Use the free Vroom app to get tips on healthy brain development for your children from birth to age five.
Early Childhood Development Milestones
Learn about your child’s developmental milestones from birth to age five and how your child plays, learns, acts, speaks and moves.
Raising Healthy Kids with Very Well Family
Tips and information to help raise happy and healthy children at different stages of their development. Child development milestones
Child Abuse Prevention Tip Sheets
Resources for Child Abuse Prevention. Tip sheets are designed for service providers to share with families. They help to provide a starting point for a discussion between parent and provider that is grounded in the protective factors.
Financial Income Supports for Families in Hawaii
Find information and support to help provide for your family in Hawaii. Financial security is an important aspect for nurturing households.
Child Care Support in Hawaii
Find information and support to help with child care in Hawaii.
How You Can Help Someone Who is Being Abused or Neglected
What should I do if someone
is being abused or neglected? This tip sheet will provide you with more information about what child abuse and neglect is and what to do if you or a friend isn’t safe.
CSSP: Protective Factors Action Sheets
Action sheets to help strengthen families by promoting the five protective factors for your clients and families.
CDC: Essentials for Childhood Violence Prevention
Creating safe and nurturing environments for families are essential to healthy families.
CDC: Act Early
Every child grows and reaches milestones in their development. Track your child’s development and learn what to do if you have concerns.
Tips for Families: Coronavirus
Resources for Families During the Pandemic. Tips and information for families to help their children going through COVID.
Crisis Card
The crisis card has been developed for people who are going through a difficult time during this pandemic.
Legal Aid Hawaii: Providers’ Guide to Evictions Under the Moratoriums
This is the latest training for social service providers on eviction moratoriums in Hawaii and how to refer cases to Legal Aid Hawaii.
One Oahu COVID-19 Resources
Resources for Oahu: Find information for food, healthcare, business, and children and grandparents resources; government services; and financial and housing assistance.
Family Partnership Guidelines for Early Childhood Settings
Early Learning Programs Including Home Visiting. These documents were created for providers to support building family engagement in their programs. They are focused on building healthy relationships.
Kamehameha Schools: ‘Ohana Engagement Tools
ʻOhana Engagement resources designed to strengthen the ʻOhana and ʻOhana Engagement Professional. OHAna Resources – activities to help the ʻohana flourish
Building Better Relationships with Youth Virtually During COVID-19
The Search Institute has released a two-page checklist of simple outreach actions youth program workers can take to build better developmental relationships with young people when they can’t be with them in person.
DV 101 Fundamentals of Domestic Violence
Basic Domestic Violence Training for Staff who Encounter Domestic Violence
Mandated Reporter
Are You a Mandated Reporter Who Isn’t Sure When to Report? Mandated Reporters are service providers who work with children and are required to report cases of abuse and neglect of a child. Mandated Reporters may have many questions about what circumstance qualifies as a report.
AUW Helpline
Call 211
Call & Text 1(877)275-6569
Chat AUW211.org
Aloha United Way 211 provides informations for finding food, shelter, financial assistance, child care, parent support, elderly care, disability services, job training, etc. Search online database 24/7.
Daily 7am-10pm
Parent Line
Call (808)526-1222 - Oahu
Call 1(800)816-1222 - Toll Free
Chat TheParentLine.org
The Parent Line provides resources for parents on child behavior & development, parenting, caregiver suport & community resources. Closed on State and Federal holidays.
Monday -Friday 8am-6pm
Saturday - Sunday 9am-1pm
Hawaii CARES
(808)832-3100 - Oahu
1(800)753-6879
All Islands, Toll Free
1(800)985-5990 Multilingual COVID-19 Emotional Distress
If you or a loved one is feeling anxious, has a crisis, thinking of suicide, or need access to mental health or substance use treatment, experiencing distress related to COVID-19 & other disasters, help is available. Visit Hawaii CARES.
Daily 24/7
Domestic Violence Action Center Help Lines
Call (808)531-3771 - Oahu
Call 1(800)690-6200 - Toll Free
Text 1(605)956-5680
If it is an emergency, please call 911. Domestic Violence Action Center provides information on ways to get help & answers to questions about domestic violence.
Call Monday -Friday 8am-5pm
Text 24/7