From Capri Suns to Resumes

From Capri Suns to Resumes, Natanya Friedheim, a reporter from Civil Beat recently spent a morning at RYSE and learned how our organization is meeting the needs of homeless young people. Read the article here https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/10/lessons-in-adulting-for-oahus-homeless-young-people/?mobile=1

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On The Run And Undercounted, Homeless Youth Try Hard To Stay Out of Sight

by Jaclyn | May 13, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

By official counts, just a handful of homeless teens live on the streets of Hawaiʻi. Those who try to help them suggest that’s all wrong, that there are many more — perhaps 150 doing their best not to be counted.

They hide in tents at beach parks. On a friend or stranger’s couch. Far back in the valleys that stretch out of towns.

RYSE Seeking Licensed Clinician – Request for Proposals Now Open

by Jaclyn | January 29, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

Incoming State Representative Kim Coco Iwamoto Donates Seven-Unit Building to Residential Youth Services & Empowerment, Taking a Bold Stand Against Youth Homelessness on Oahu

by Jaclyn | January 22, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

Residential Youth Services & Empowerment (RYSE) founded in 2018, received its single largest personal gift in the form
of a seven-unit apartment building in the Ala Moana area. Incoming Hawaii Representative Kim Coco Iwamoto has owned and managed this building in her district since 2004.

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