Easter Seals to build new center for Maui programs

From the Maui News

Easter Seals Hawaii hopes to soon begin a $7 million extensive renovation project to establish a community campus in Kahului where its programs can expand and its clients can easily interact with    community and have a place to live independently.

By this summer, the nonprofit expects to start work on a 1.7-acre parcel it purchased for $1.8 million adjacent to the Queen Kaahumanu Center that used to house the Kamehameha Schools and Maui Land & Pineapple preschools as well as ML&P’s former offices and dormitories. Easter Seals hopes it can move into part of its renovated new campus in early 2012.

There are 777 teens and young adults on Maui known to have developmental disabilities who are about to or ready to transition into society after leaving school, said Roxann Kehus, Maui County manager of Easter Seals Hawaii. With the new campus brings the possibility of having more vocational education and job skill training for those who have developmental disabilities and special needs. The campus will also have a housing component for Easter Seals adult clients. Click here to read more.