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Two Hawai‘i youth advocates receive state award
Two Hawai‘i runaway and homeless youth workers received the 2007 Outstanding Advocates for Children and Youth Award from the Hawai‘i Legislature: Alika Campbell, transitional living and street outreach coordinator for Hale Kipa; and Jeff Kaplan of Waikiki Health Center, who manages a free medical clinic located in the street outreach drop-in center are strong advocates for the needs of runaway, homeless, and street youth.
The two learned a statute allowing Waikiki Health Center to provide medical care to runaway, homeless and street youth had lapsed due to a sunset clause and began to advocate for the right of minors living without parental support or control to provide consent for their own medical care.
They researched mature-minor statutes in other states, gathered data on the consequences when youth are unable to obtain medical care and found doctors and clinics often encountered minors in need of acute or preventive health care in circumstances where parents or guardians were not available to provide consent.
Alika and Jeff educated and gained support from youth workers, community health centers, physicians and public policy makers. They met with key Legislators and helped to draft a bill to allow young people living independently from their families to consent for medical care. The Legislature passed the bill in 2006 only to have the governor veto it. Despite that setback, Jeff and Alika continued their efforts, the bill was redrafted to address the concerns opponents and in May, 2007, Governor Lingle signed the legislation that removed a major barrier to accessing health care for Hawaii’s young people.
Assets names Paul Singer new Head of School
Assets School has named Paul Singer as its new head of school for the Honolulu campus. He will join the private school on July 1 after completing 28 years as head of The Country School in Valley Village, Calif., a private school with 150 students in preschool through seventh grade. Singer replaces the interim head of school, Sandi Tadaki, who returns to her role as director of admissions. Tadaki took over in June, when Lou Salza left after 11 years to become head of Lawrence School in Ohio.
Assets School has approximately 400 students in grades kindergarten through high school who are gifted, dyslexic or gifted and dyslexic. Singer has an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a Masters degree in Educational Administration and Supervision, both from California State University-Northridge. He has taught in the university’s teacher-training program for the past 32 years.
Daniel Gluck becomes new senior staff attorney for ACLU
The ACLU of Hawaii has announced selection of Daniel M. Gluck as its new Senior Staff Attorney, joining its legal team of Lois Perrin, Legal Director, and Laurie A. Temple, Staff Attorney. Gluck is from Buffalo, N.Y., and holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003, where he served in numerous capacities to assist indigent and underserved communities.
After law school, Gluck was clerk to James Duffy, associate justice of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court, and to the J. Michael Seabright, U.S. district judge for Hawai‘i. Most recently, Gluck was with the Honolulu office of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing.
“The ACLU of Hawaii has an extraordinary record of defending our constitutional rights, and I am honored to join such a talented and committed group of individuals,” said Gluck. “I look forward to expanding the ACLU caseload to take on more of the issues that so deeply affect the most personal aspects of our lives.”
“The size of the in-house legal staff has grown to three attorneys in the past year,” said Vanessa Chong, ACLU executive director. “The ACLU will assertively further its mission as the State’s leading champion for civil rights and civil liberties.”
Women’s Fund adds Dawn Shin as assistant director
The Women’s Fund of Hawai‘i has expanded its staff to two, hiring its first assistant director, Dawn Shin, to help serve more women and girls in Hawai`i. Shin has extensive nonprofit experience in coalition development and building community programs. Prior to joining the Women’s Fund, she launched and managed county-wide subsidized child care programs for low-income families. She is a founding member of an international cultural and language exchange program that teaches English to foreign students and immigrants and has served on the board of a national nonprofit dedicated to training and organizing young leaders to be involved citizens.
Lori Miller takes over as ED at Kauai Hospice
Lori Miller became executive director of Kauai Hospice on Nov. 5, taking over from Judy Smith who is retiring to spend more time with children, grandchildren and two new great grandsons who arrived last summer. Before joining Kauai Hospice, Miller was chief operations officer for Ho`ola Lahui Hawaii.
