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HB1080 • 2026

RELATING TO FAMILY RESILIENCE PILOT PROGRAM.

RELATING TO FAMILY RESILIENCE PILOT PROGRAM.

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Sponsor
NAKAMURA (Introduced by request of another party)
Last action
2025-12-08
Official status
Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The exact date for establishing a data tracking system and an implementation plan is not specified in the official source.

Family Resilience Pilot Program

This bill establishes a Family Resilience Pilot Program within the Office of Wellness and Resilience to provide support services and financial assistance for families at risk.

What This Bill Does

  • Establishes the Family Resilience Pilot Program inside the Office of Wellness and Resilience.
  • Provides trauma-informed peer support navigators who have personal experience with social services to assist families in accessing benefits and strengthening their family life.
  • Offers financial help for basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, childcare, and other essential items.
  • Establishes a data tracking system and an implementation plan by the end of 2025.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Families at risk of entering the child welfare system.
  • Community and school-based organizations that provide support services.
  • The Office of Wellness and Resilience, which will manage the program.

Terms To Know

Trauma-informed
Understanding how trauma affects people's lives and providing care in a way that is sensitive to their experiences.
Peer support navigator
A person who has personal experience with the social services system and helps others navigate similar challenges.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how many families will be helped by the program.
  • It is unclear what specific services will be contracted for implementation of the pilot program.

Bill History

  1. 2025-12-08 D

    Carried over to 2026 Regular Session.

  2. 2025-01-23 H

    Referred to HSH, FIN, referral sheet 3

  3. 2025-01-23 H

    Introduced and Pass First Reading.

  4. 2025-01-21 H

    Pending introduction.

Official Summary Text

RELATING TO FAMILY RESILIENCE PILOT PROGRAM.
Office of Wellness and Resilience; Family Resilience Pilot Program ($)
Establishes the Family Resilience Pilot Program within the Office of Wellness and Resilience and appropriates funds to execute the program, including the contracting of services.

Current Bill Text

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HB1080

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1080

THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025

STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING
TO FAMILY RESILIENCE PILOT PROGRAM.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

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SECTION 1.
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The legislature finds that more programs and
resources are necessary to increase family resilience and reduce the risk of
child abuse or neglect.
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Many families at high risk of entering
the child welfare system are unaware of available services or how to access
them, or public benefits are not available to address the economic or other
fiscal challenge they are facing.

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The malama ohana working group was e
stablished
by Act 86, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, within the office of wellness and
resilience to seek, design, and recommend transformative changes to the State's
existing child welfare system.
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In its
report submitted to the 2025 legislature
, the malama ohana working group stated there is a shortage of resources
in Hawaii dedicated to preventing children and families
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involvement with child welfare
services, especially primary prevention and universal support.
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The malama ohana working group recommended
the establishment of primary prevention and universal support programs that are
trauma-informed and culturally responsive in an effort to divert children and
families away from involvement with the child welfare system.

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The
legislature finds that community and school-based organizations are safe,
accessible, and non-judgmental spaces where families can access formal and
informal supports and referrals.
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Providing family strengthening programming
helps to increase parents' protective factors:
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parental resilience, social connections, concrete support, knowledge of
parenting and child development, and social-emotional competence of children.
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Community and school-based organizations, such
as family resource centers, have been successful in reducing the number of
families reported to the child welfare system.

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Accordingly,
the purpose of this Act is to establish and fund a five-year family resilience
pilot program within the office of wellness and resilience.

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SECTION
2.
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(a)
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There is established within the office of wellness and resilience a
family resilience pilot program, in which the office of wellness and resilience
shall provide:

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(1)
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Trauma-informed peer support navigators with
lived experience who have gone through the social services system to assist
families with enrollment in public or other benefits, family strengthening, and
cultural programming; and

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(2)
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Financial assistance and resource supports to
aid with food, clothing, hygiene, housing, parenting, childcare, household, and
transportation needs.

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(b)
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The office of wellness and resilience, shall
establish, no later than December 31, 2025, the following:

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(1)
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Data
and referral system tracking needs and protocols to comply with applicable
state and federal laws; and

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(2)
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An implementation and evaluation plan that
includes specific, measurable, attainable, reasonable, and time-bound goals.

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SECTION
3.
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There is appropriated out of the
general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $987,150 or so much thereof
as may be necessary for fiscal year 2025�2026 and the same sum or so much
thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2026-2027 for the office of
wellness and resilience to carry out the purposes of this Act, including the
contracting of services to implement the pilot program.

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The
sums appropriated shall be expended by the office of wellness and resilience.

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SECTION
4.
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This Act, upon its approval, shall
take effect on July 1, 2025, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2030.

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________

BY REQUEST

Report Title:

Office of Wellness and Resilience; Family Resilience Pilot
Program

Description:

Establishes the Family Resilience Pilot Program within the
Office of Wellness and Resilience and appropriates funds to execute the
program, including the contracting of services.

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