RYSE talks with HNN to discuss our great work with Hawaii’s homeless youth during the Pandemic – View it below.

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.

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.