Education Programs
- Chaminade University – 2nd Chance Pell Grant — An Associate Degree in Business Administration for those with a high school diploma, GED, or HSE and qualifies for FAFSA.
- Windward Community College – 2nd Chance Pell Grant — An associate degree in Hawaiian Studies & Innovation and Credit/Certification in Psyco-Social Development for those with a high school diploma, GED, or HSE and qualifies for FAFSA.
Other Personal and Professional Development Programs
- Cognitive Skills-Transformation CBT — This program provides group and individual counseling sessions in changing an inmate’s behavior. Delivery of services provided by the Salvation Army.
- Cognitive Skills-P-CHAMP/Lifestyles — This correspondence cognitive skills course is delivered via Zoom sessions.
- Try Think — This program strives to bring people together to bridge the gaps and share ideas to strengthen ties with each other and their sense of community. Delivery of services provided by volunteers with the Hawaii Counsel for Humanities.
- Project NAM — This volunteer-led course provides inmates with the opportunity to learn how to choose alternative options to criminal thinking and behavior by developing values of honesty, respect, tolerance, responsibility, and compassion for others.
- Yoga — An instructional education program to develop body awareness, focus and relieve everyday stress.
Career Technical Training
- Forklift Certification — For inmates interested in jobs that require Forklift operation.
- Food Safety & Certification — For inmates interested in the Food Service industry and may have had previous food service experience. Delivery of services provided by the Kapiolani Community College.
- American Job Center Program — Services to assist inmates in HireNet Hawaii, skills training, job search assistance, in-depth career counseling and access to training for in-demand jobs.
- Aztec Life Skills — An independent studies web-based program that addresses employability and life skills.
- Toastmasters — Develops, enhances, and improves communication skills through public speaking.
Substance Abuse Treatment
- Intensive Outpatient Treatment — For inmates with moderate risk for recidivism. Delivery of services provided by facility substance abuse staff and/or Salvation Army.
- Outpatient Treatment — For inmates with low risk for recidivism. Delivery of services provided by facility substance abuse staff and/or Salvation Army.
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) — Volunteer-led AA meetings.
- Narcotics Anonymous — Volunteer-led NA meetings.
Sex Offender Treatment
- For inmates convicted of a sex offense or inmates needing treatment as assessed and approved by staff.
Furlough Programs
- Clean and Sober Housing — Provides eligible inmates on extended furlough and eligible parolees, a clean and safe place to live at reduced rates to help them save money to be self-sufficient when transitioning back to the community. Delivery of services for female inmates provided by Women in Need (WIN), and GOODWILL HAWAII provides services for both male and female inmates.
- Project Bridge Furlough — Provides eligible high-risk inmates that have successfully completed intensive substance abuse treatment with an opportunity to actively job seek, establish financial stability, develop pro-social relationships, and find appropriate housing prior to release from incarceration.