STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3259

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 11

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services, Education, and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 11 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, AND JUDICIARY TO PERMANENTLY ESTABLISH AND PARTICIPATE IN THE HAWAII INTERAGENCY STATE YOUTH NETWORK OF CARE TO BETTER SERVE YOUTH AND FAMILIES WITH COMPLEX NEEDS IN THE STATE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Urge the Department of Education, Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Judiciary to permanently establish the Hawaii Interagency State Youth Network of Care (HISYNC);

(2) Urge the various state entities to participate in HISYNC and the Hawaii Interagency Local Youth Network of Care (HILYNC);

(3) Urge any additional child-serving agencies that are not currently members of HISYNC to participate in HISYNC's interagency forum and send local representatives to each of the regional HILYNC committees; and

(4) Urge HISYNC to coordinate the complex landscape of the child-serving system.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Department of Health, Department of Education, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i.

Your Committees find that the Department of Education, Department of Human Services, Department of Health, and Judiciary provide services for children, youth, and families, especially for children with complex educational, behavioral, and social-emotional needs. To increase collaboration and create a better integrated system of care for children, youth, and families, these state agencies formed HISYNC and, through HISYNC, provide multi-agency initiatives to assist children with complex needs and their families navigate the State's child-serving system. This measure will officially recognize HISYNC and urge the network to continue to provide comprehensive services and additional resources for children with complex needs and their families.

Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting language urging the Hawaii Interagency State Youth Network of Care to invite other entities who work with children with complex needs to join the forum and encouraging these entities to send a representative to each of the regional Hawaii Interagency Local Youth Network of Care committees.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services, Education, and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 11, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Judiciary, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 11, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services, Education, and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

________________________________ MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair	________________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair
	________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair