Hawaii child welfare service providers search for cultural solutions

Hawaii child welfare service providers search for cultural solutions

The Malama Ohana Working Group, established by the Legislature to develop recommendations to improve the state’s child welfare system, concluded in a recent report that integrating Native Hawaiian cultural values into policies and practices is necessary to fix a failing system. MOWG released a report in December, which fulfilled its 2023 legislative mandate, and ultimately concluded, “There are good people doing difficult work throughout the sys…