HAWAI'I WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES

ORGANIZATION NAME

AGENCY TYPE / MISSION

GROUP(S) SERVED / %NH

Job seekers: NH, Am. Indians and
Alaska Natives

EMPLOYER SUPPORT

WIOA ALIGNMENT

ECONOMIC IMPACT

Youth and Adult workforce: Employment & training

program and participants must meet eligibility
requirements; Youth - tutoring, paid and unpaid WBL
(apprenticeship,internship, job shadow, leadership dev.,
financial literary, entrerpreneurial skills); Adult - career
re-entry services: career, follow up and training services.

None

GOALS 1, 2, 3

More research needed

Business marketing and promotional opportunities on

Chamber website, newsletter, sponsored events; company
listing in membership directory; exhibition and
sponosorship opportunities at Chamber events

GOALS 3, 4, 5

More research needed

NO

NO

GOALS 1, 2, 5

1,525 people placed in

employment = $24 million in
annual wages earned; 11,101
recipients of job training and
placement, youth mentoring and
adult disability services (Source: 2015-

NO

NO

NO

NO

ALU LIKE

Nonprofit - Our mission is to kkua Hawaiian

Natives who are committed to achieving
their potential for themselves, their families
and communities.

Chamber of Commerce Hawai'i

Nonprofit - The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii Employers: Membership-fee based Adult workforce: Industry and policy networking
is a statewide, non-profit organization whose
professionals
opportunities, professional development and seminar
mission is to serve as the Voice of Business in
events, and business-supported membership discounts
Hawaii.

Goodwill Industries of Hawai'i

Nonprofit - Goodwill Hawaii is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity that helps people with
employment barriers to reach their full
potential and become self-sufficient.

Employers and job seekers: Native

Hawaiians, immigrant resources,
low-income/low-skilled workforce,
marginal workforce or people with
disabilties

FINANCIAL SUPPORT/HOUSING
BUSINESS CTR./WORK FACILITIES PROF. DEVELOPMENT
ASST.

WORKFORCE SUPPORT

Youth and Adult workforce: Youth - GED, C-based

Talent recruitment, employee empowerment program
diploma, vocational exploration, leadership dev.,
(SEE), employee support to stay on the job (funding for
mentorship, job placement; Adult - job readiness and life childcare, transporation, work-related expenses),
skills, tuition assistance, job placement
replacement services and consultation services.

Financial literacy
training,voluteer income tax
assistance program

NO

NO

Networking events;
business seminars;

2016 Annual Report)

Hale Kipa

Nonprofit - Hale Kipa provides opportunities

and environments that strengthen and
encourage youth, their families and
communities to actualize their potential and
social responsibility.

Job seekers: At-risk youth

Youth workforce: GED diploma and educational support,

life skills training.

NONE

GOALS 1, 2, 3

Saves Hawai'I tax payers $199,320

annually per incarcerated youth*

NO

NO

High Technology Development

Corporation (HTDC)

State Agency - The mission of the High

Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) is
to facilitate the growth and
development of high technology as a viable
industry sector in Hawaiis economy. HTDC is an
agency
of the State of Hawaii created by the State
Legislature in 1983 and is administratively
attached to the
Department of Business, Economic
Development and Tourism (DBEDT).

Employers and job seekers: Tech

& Innovation sector start ups and
exisiting businesses; skilled
workforce

Adult and youth workforce (skilled labor): youth

internship program; business and tech workshops,
seminars, grant writing, small business loans, pitching
venture capital, PR/branding, social media strategies;
incubation services; grant-matching funds innovation
programs; service provider program (resident mentors);

Facilitates various grants to support local businesses,

including investments designed to assist Hawai'I
manufacturers, small businesses developing new and
innovative technologies, and matching funds to alternative
energy research and development projects (Source: HTDC

GOALS 3, 4, 5

HTDC Program Success: 93 clients:

$124.3M total revenue;$213.7M
total economic impact; $66.8M
income generated; $11.1M state
taxes generated; 832 employees

NO

Through the Mnoa Innovation

Center, low-cost business facilities,
equipment and conference rooms
are provided to HI tech start ups

Nonprofit - To empower youth to serve their

communities through character building,
service learning, and environmental
stewardship opportunities that encourage
integrity (pono) with Ke Akua (God), self, and
others.

Youth workforce development for Youth workforce: Team based (Hawai'I Youth
green industries (statewide)
Conservation Corps) and invidual internship
opportunities (year-long fellowships) in environment,
conservation and sustainabiltiy-focused fields.

Youth internship stipends

Green job training facility

renovations in Ka'akako in
progress; Center to provide
workshop and laboratory facilities,
classroom spaces, conference
rooms and community space.

NO

NO

NO

KUPU Hawai'i

Business/Tech
workshops, seminars
and incubation
services

(Source: 2014 program success, 2015 Annual

Report)

2016 Funding Brochure)

Provides trained workforce for Hawai'I's green industry

sectors

GOALS 2, 3, 5

2,932 total youth served; 96% of

participants employed or enrolled
in continuing education after
participating in program; Economic
benefit of over $14 million to the
community (Source: 2015 KUPU Annual

POLICY/LEGISLATIVE
SUPPORT

GRANTS,
CONTRACTS

NO

NO

Business advocacy at all

NO
3 levels of gov't;
members participate in
legislative forums and
events to meet with
legislators
NO
Provides
commercial
cleaning, laundry,
janitorial and
secure document
destruction services
for contract hire

0THER

Business service discounts (trade

subscriptions, office max
purchases, event regisration)
marketing & promotional
opportunties
Tax clinic, intellectual disabilities
services,

NO

NO

Facilities (meals, shower,

laundry), crisis intervention, case
mgmt., couseling, safetey
workshops, independent living
prog.,

Facilitate 80/80
Initiative to create
80,000 new jobs with
salaries over $80K in
technology and
innovation by year 2030.

Programs: Innovate Hawai'I,

Hawai'I Small Business
Innovation Research, Hawai'I
Center for Advanced
Transportation Technologies (for
military and commercial
transportation sys.); Incubation
Programs (Manoa Innovation
Ctr., Maui Research & Tech. Ctr.)

NO

Facilitates various
grants to support
local businesses,
including
investments
designed to assist
Hawai'I
manufacturers,
small businesses
developing new and
innovative
technologies, and
matching funds to
alternative energy
research and
NO

NO

NO

N/A

NO

NO

Wrap around support for social

services including housing
assistance, substance abuse
counseling, anger management,
leadership skills development,
basic life skills

Technical project support in

sustainability, conservation and
environment to partners projects
(Sustainability Fellow,
Conservation Leader,
Environmental Education Leader)

Report)

Ma Ka Hana Ka 'Ike

Nonprofit - The mission of Ma Ka Hana Ka Ike At-risk youth education and

(In Working, One Learns) is to provide at-risk workforce development in Hana,
youth with a way to learn that makes sense to Maui
them, that builds their self-esteem and shows
them they have the power to change their
future.

Youth workforce: Residential construction skills training Provides trained workforce for Hawai'I's construction
program for at-risk youth in Hana, Maui; life skills, green industry; Savings on labor costs by utilizing students skills
construction design, traditional Hawaiian woodworking and construction tools
crafts training, peer mentoring

GOALS 2, 3

More research needed

Student stipends (part in cash and

part in credit towards
construction tools)

O'ahu Worklinks / WorkHawaii

Federal - WorkHawaii's (WH) mission is to

Hawai'I Employer and job seekers:
develop a quality workforce for Honolulu's
Open to all levels
businesses and to empower individuals to meet
the current and
future needs of employers so that our
economy continues to grow.

Youth and Adult workforce: Youth services - life skills

training, education, substance abuse counseling,
leadership development, youth services center and job
readiness; Adult services - vocational rehab employment
program, career guidance, job placement , Section 8
housing case management services

Job postings bank; recruitment assistance and candidate

screening; Provides employers skills training for their
employees in computer literacy, interpersonal skills, team
building, customer service, ESL; outplacement services for
staff reductions (unemployment benefits, career
assessment testing and tuition and apprentice reources)

GOALS 1 - 5

More research needed

NO

Waikiki Health Youth Outreach

(YO)

Nonprofit - Y.O. is the only resource in O'ahu

providing homeless teens and young adults
with comprehensive medical and social
services, as well as job training and GED
preparation program.

Youth workforce: Job skills training and GED preparation

NO

GOAL 2

Hawai'I Job Corps Center

Youth social services & workforce

development

Saves Hawai'I tax payers $199,320

annually per incarcerated youth*

Shelter assistance

Federal - At Hawai'I Job Corps Center we

Youth educational and vocational Youth workforce: Academic training (basic reading,
NO
GOAL 2
Saves Hawai'I tax payers $199,320 Graduates receive transition
support the Job Corps program's mission of
training (ages 16 - 24 years)
math), GED/HS diploma, life skills, and career training in
annually per incarcerated youth* allowance (up to $1,000 to assist
teaching eligible young people the skills they
automotive, business tech, culinary arts, facilities
with transportation and housing
need to become employable and independent
maintenance, health, landscaping, medical office support
and placing them in meaningful jobs or further
and painting
education.
*According to U.S. Department of Education Justice Policy Institute, high school drop outs are 3.5 times more likely to become incarcerated. In 2013, the annual cost to incarcerate one juvenille at the Hawai'I Youth Correctional Facility was $199,320. Program providers that focus on at-risk youth
workforce development contribute to the economic savings potential of incarceration costs for youth.

One-Stop Centers have Resource

Rooms provided at no cost to job
seekers to aid in their job search,
including laser printers, copiers,
fax machines, and telephones.
Labor market and occupational
information and reports are also
available

Employee skills
training

NO

NO

NO

NO

Offers meals, showers, laundry

facilities, on-site health care and
social services.

NO

NO

NO

NO

On-site housing, meals and

health services provide to
program participants at no cost;
Add'l transition support for
graduates