Updated at 1:01 p.m., Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Safe house on Big Island celebrates 1st anniversary
Advertiser Staff
It's celebration time on the Big Island.Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona and Human Services Director Lillian Koller will attend a first anniversary party at the Ke Kama Pono Safe House for girls at 10 a.m. today.
The "Home of Promise" is a renovated teachers cottage and is a group home for troubled teenage girls. It's located in rural Honoka`a and used as an alternative to the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility for nonviolent female offenders ages 13 to 17.
Ke Kama Pono houses up to six girls ages 13 to 17 and has two full-time counselors on staff who help the girls prepare for high school equivalency exams, provide training in life skills and job hunting, personal and family counseling and drug-abuse education.
