Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2201 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, ten staff members with the Department of Education, Parent Project Administrator, fourteen Parent-Community Networking Centers, four parent facilitators from the Parent Project, two volunteers from the Parent Project, eight parents who participated in the Parent Project, and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that the Parent Program has been of enormous value in giving parents of strong-willed adolescents the tools they need to modify their children's self-destructive behavior. This provides a positive framework for the youth to reengage with their family, get back on track with school, and further their holistic development. The cost-effective, pragmatic program has pulled many youth back from the brink of self-destruction through substance abuse and criminal activity and given them no less than a whole new lease on life.

Your Committee has amended the measure by clarifying that the services provided by the Parent Project shall not be construed as counseling.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2201, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2201, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.