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	Provide current and reliable data and information related to health and human service needs Enable organizations, government, and communities to be proactive and creative in responding to immediate and long-term needs Share information about available resources and activities Facilitate interaction and encouragement through sharedperspectives and messages of hope This site is sponsored by the Center on the Family, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resource, University of Hawaii.

Coping With Financial Stress Brochure Available The Center on the Family announces the availability Coping With Financial Stress, a brochure aimed at providing strategies and practices to help families cope when income is reduced. The brochure also includes a list of government and community resources providing financial assistance and free or low-cost job placement, financial counseling, and family support services. Coping With Financial Stress is currently available through the Hawaii Together publications page on this website. If your organization is interested in ordering printed copies of the brochure, please call Ling or Devyn at the Center on the Family, 956-4132.

Actions Taken In a Post 9-11 Economy Post 9-11 period and slow economic growth has not been easy for many of individuals and businesses in the State of Hawai’i. Tourism numbers are down about 600,000 from the record 6.9 million in 2000 and 26,000 workers filed for unemployment in the fourth quarter of 2000. All of these circumstances affected the demands on social services. Furthermore, non-profit industries might be facing funding cuts from the federal government as a result of an undercount in last year’s census that might cause a loss for Hawai’i of $105.5 million in federal money in the next 10 years . Pacific Gateway Center (PGC), as one of community development financial institutions in Hawai’i, consistently seeks alternative ways other than travel and tourism industry to serve individuals and families in need through Federal and State funded programs in order to help Hawai’i recover from its slow economy growth. More