Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Health Services is receiving $1.5 million to expand and refurbish their health-care facilities, Sens. Daniel K. Inouye and Daniel K. Akaka announced Wednesday in a news release.

Kokua Kalihi Valley is a community-operated, nonprofit corporation serving the residents of Kalihi Valley. It was formed in 1972 by an organization of community leaders.
There are 115 workers at six locations who offer services in 17 Asian and Pacific Island languages. Kokua Kalihi Valley operates at two of the three largest public housing communities in Hawaii, a 12,000-square-foot health center, a 4,000-square-foot elder center and on 100 acres of leased state park land used for exercise, cultural practices and community gardening at the back of Kalihi Valley.
“Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Health Services provides much needed assistance to residents who often have difficulty accessing health care and other critical social services,” Inouye said in the news release. These funds will help KKV renovate and build out their existing facilities to better serve the community.”
“These resources will strengthen the ability of Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Health Services to better meet community health care needs,” Akaka said in a statement.
The money comes through a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.