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Causes: Education, Educational Services
Mission: To enhance educational, work and life opportunities for children and youth with or at risk of disabilities by empowering them and their families through screening, identification, information, training and mentoring, and by public outreach and advocacy.
Programs: Learning disabilities assocation of hawaii (ldah) is the parenttraining & information (pti) center for hawaii and the pacific island states and territories. Ldah provides training, information, technical assistance, mentoring, advocacy and resources to parents of infants, toddlers, school-aged children, and young adults with disabilities and to the professionals who support them.
school readiness project (srp) - supports children ages 2-5 in preparing them to be kindergarten ready for school, ready to learn through developmental, social emotional, hearing, vision and autism screening services. Parent training and follow up support are provided to parents to build awareness on the importance of their children being school ready.
person in need program (pin) - one time awards to benefit children in hawaii age 17 years or younger with a serious medical condition or special education need that will completely or significantly improve that child's circumstance.