{"id":3665,"date":"2019-12-03T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pidf.org\/\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2020-06-29T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T01:48:04","slug":"120319_fostering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/120319_fostering\/","title":{"rendered":"Fostering Aloha: It&#8217;s Our Kuleana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the Office of Hawaiian Affairs:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Native Hawaiians only make up about 20% of Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s population, nearly 50% of keiki in the foster care system are Native Hawaiian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Ka Wai Ola News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-VPh4gw70GA\">exclusive video<\/a>, we hear from some of the k\u0101naka who dedicate their hearts and homes to care for Native Hawaiian children in foster care. The Keola and Osorio families share their stories of resource caregiving (fostering) and send their k\u0101hea out to encourage other Native Hawaiian families to become resource caregivers to Hawaiian keiki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resource care professionals Jan Dill and Billie-Ann Bruce also share their mana\u02bbo about the crisis, emphasizing the importance of keeping Native Hawaiian keiki connected to their culture by keeping them here in Hawai\u02bbi with Hawaiian families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Kau\u02bbi Keola reminds us, &#8220;it\u2019s our kuleana&#8221; to care for Native Hawaiian keiki. To find out how you can become a resource caregiver, or other ways to k\u014dkua the foster care community,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pidf.org\/programs\/hui_hoomalu\/about\">contact our Hui Ho\u02bbomalu<\/a>\u00a0foster licensing program.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/kawaiola\/docs\/kwo1219_web\">Read more<\/a>\u00a0about Hui Ho\u02bbomalu, foster care in Hawai\u02bbi, and these \u02bbohanas that are fostering aloha.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Hawaiian Affairs&#8217; most recent issue of Ka Wai Ola dives deep into the issue of foster care in Hawai\u02bbi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,20],"tags":[152,119,150,151],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hui-hoomalu","category-news","tag-foster-care","tag-hui-hoomalu","tag-ka-wai-ola","tag-office-of-hawaiian-affairs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}