STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3274
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.R. No. 133
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.R. No. 133 entitled:
"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, AND DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO IMPLEMENT A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP PILOT PROJECT WITH THE STUDENT FUTURE AWARENESS PROGRAM TO PROVIDE EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES TO MINIMIZE DRUG USE, GANG ACTIVITY, AND VIOLENCE AMONG HAWAII'S SCHOOL-AGE YOUTH,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Education, the Department of Health, and the Department of Human Services to implement a public-private partnership pilot project with the Student Future Awareness Program to provide early intervention services to minimize drug use, gang activity, and violence among Hawaii's school-age youth.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Student Future Awareness Program. Your Committees received testimony in support of the intent of this measure with amendments from the Department of Health and the Department of Education.
Your Committees find that early intervention services are needed to reduce youth involvement in drug and alcohol use, gang involvement, and violent behavior. Additionally, schools and community agencies have requested an intervention program to address these problems.
Your Committees have amended this measure in response to the Department of Health's recommendations by:
(1) Involving the Department of Public Safety in the pilot program with guidance from the Department of the Attorney General on issues of safety and liability;
(2) Specifying that the Student Future Awareness Program is to be offered as a pilot project to selected schools in the 2006-2007 school year;
(3) Requesting that the implementors of the pilot project work with a University of Hawaii researcher of risk-reducing behaviors among youth, to evaluate the effectiveness of this program; and
(4) Requesting Department of Health and other implementors of this pilot project to assess the feasibility of integrating the Student Future Awareness Program into existing school programs or curricula.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 133, as amended herein, recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Education and Military Affairs, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 133, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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