Center Goals:

*  To eliminate or minimize employment barriers so participants can enter the
    labor market
*  To enable participants to complete high school, enter post-secondary
    education/advanced trainingand secure employment; and
*  To decrease further involvement or participants in the justice system.

Center Objectives:

*  To provide a high school diploma program and vocational training;
*  To provide job readiness training and placement services; and
*  To provide supportive services, including intensive case management, anger
    management, substance abuse counseling, leadership development and other
    needed services.

The Center employs a universal intake system for entry into all six programs.  Each participant is assigned to the program that is the best "fit" and is also assigned a case manager to jointly develop his or her training and educational plan based on testing of skills, aptitudes, and interests.

The six Center programs are described below:

Building for Stronger Tomorrows

  Program mission:  To provide all federal public housing residents the opportunity to gain skills that lead to employment and self-sufficiency;

  Services include basic skills and leadership development, vocational training, and job readiness training and placement services.

Juvenile Justice Center

  Program mission:  To provide status offenders and first-time law violators, ages 14 - 17, with accountability-based sanctions to prevent them from further involvement in the justice system.

  Services include anger management classes, mediation, substance abuse counseling, leadership development, and pre-employment training.

Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Youth Operator Program

  Program mission:  To coordinate and monitor service providers that provide WIA youth participants, ages 14 - 21, with comprehensive employment services through a broad range of activities such as occupational skills training, alternative education, and job readiness and placement services.

Youthbuild Honolulu

  Program mission:  To provide non-high school graduates, ages 16 - 24, with alternative education and job training services.

  Services include a high school diploma program, vocational and hands on construction training, leadership development, and job readiness and placement services.

Youthbuild Honolulu DOL Re-Entry Project

  Program mission:  To offer adjudicated, non-high school graduates, ages 16 - 24, the opportunity to prepare for employment and avoid further involvement in the justice system.

  Services include leadership development, a high school diploma program, substance abuse counseling, hands on construction training, and employment services.

Youth Offender Demonstration Project

  Program mission:  To provide young offenders and those at-risk for court and gang involvement, ages 16 - 24, with the opportunity to attain educational and employment goals and avoid further involvement in the court system.

Services include a high school diploma program, occupational training, community service projects, mentoring, and therapeutic counseling.