HCAP Weekly July 21, 2014

In this week’s issue:

Weatherization Program Partners with Hawaiian Electric
Mahalo to the Central Pacific Bank Foundation
HCAP Helps Clients Break Barriers and Gain Employment
Leahi Staff Bids Fond Aloha to SCSEP Participant

Weatherization Program Partners with Hawaiian Electric

HCAP is pleased to announce its new partnership with Hawaiian Electric. This collaboration is a project that intends to demonstrate significant reduction in energy needs through a variety of energy efficient methods. Managed through the HCAP Weatherization Program, eligible applicants will receive home-specific energy-efficiency counseling and specific energy saving appliances and/or devices at no cost. Each household selected for this project will then have their energy expenditures monitored for a select period of time. The data will then be used to analyze trends indicating any decreases in energy use and will be useful in showing members of the community at-large that there are many effective ways of cutting their energy bills.

This project is being made possible through generous sponsorship funding from Hawaiian Electric. Anyone interested in participating in HCAP Weatherization Services may apply at any of the five HCAP District Service Centers.

Shown above: Bob Dahilig- HCAP Technical Projects Coordinator, Sherri Okinaga- Director of Customer Relations at Hawaiian Electric, and Robert Naniole- HCAP Director of Community Services

Mahalo to the Central Pacific Bank Foundation

The Hā Initiative: Creative STEM After-School Program would like to thank the Central Pacific Bank Foundation for their generous donation to the program. The grant funds HCAP received will allow the program to continue to offer unique, fun, and educational activities to kids at our four STEM Exploration Centers on Oahu.

Shown above, STEM Waianae students Kassidy & Ainakoa build a Bluetooth-capable robot. A Bluetooth robot is great training for concepts of wireless control. For more information about the Hā Initiative, click here.

HCAP Helps Clients Break Barriers and Gain Employment

Tyrone has been a client with HCAP, through the Windward District Service Center since January 2014. When Tyrone reached out to HCAP, he was unemployed and struggling with the overwhelming job search process. He lacked work experience and had no transportation to go out and hunt for a job. HCAP helped Tyrone to improve his skills through his participation in Na Lima Hana- Employment Core Services Job Readiness Training. He learned where to look for a job, how to write a resume and fill out an application, and interviewing skills. HCAP provided Tyrone with a bus pass to break his transportation barrier since he couldn’t afford to get one himself. With these basic services, along with job leads and 1-on-1 guidance from HCAP’s community workers, Tyrone was able to obtain a job. In April 2014, Tyrone attended job orientation and has maintained employment since that time.

Leahi Staff Bids Fond Aloha to SCSEP Participant

This month the Leahi District Service Center will be saying goodbye one of its most valued SCSEP workers, Trinidad (Trini). Thankfully, Trini will not be leaving the HCAP family. She will be transferring to the Leeward District Service Center, where she will certainly be an asset to their office.

Trini has been working in the Leahi office for nearly 2 years and has been a joy to work with. She is contentious, polite, courteous, honest, and reliable. In her capacity at the Leahi District office, Trini has been assigned many duties and has performed each of them in an exemplary manner. Trini has a real empathy for HCAP’s clients’ needs and she puts the clients at ease when they come into our office.

Trini is a pleasure to work with and the support and assistance she has provided to the Leahi District Service Center has been immeasurable. We’d like to wish Trini well at her new position in Waianae.