State Profile | Hawaii

The Afterschool Investments project has developed profiles for each state to provide a snapshot of the "state of afterschool," as well as an opportunity to compare afterschool activities across the country. This profile provides key data and descriptions of the afterschool landscape, which includes a range of out-of-school time programming that can occur before and after school, on weekends, and during summer months. It is designed to serve as a resource for policymakers, administrators, and providers.

• Quick Facts
• Statewide Initiatives
• Notable Local Initiatives
• Statewide Organizations
• Additional Resources
• Notes and Sources

Quick Facts

Demographics

For more demographic information, visit http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/statedata/statepro/index.html

Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)

CCDF Administrative Overview

Settings

Where CCDF-Subsidy school age-children are served:

Uses of CCDF Targeted Funds and Quality Dollars for Afterschool

"Resource and referral and school-age" targeted funds:
The Department of Education runs a Statewide After-School program called "A+".  This program is available to all elementary school-age children in the State public school system, regardless of income level.  The Department works with the Department of Education to provide funds for After-School child care services to those elementary-school age children who are eligible for free or reduced lunch at all public elementary schools statewide.  The current agreement with the Department of Education provides for payment of $70 per month, per child.  Children of higher income families pay the fee to the Department of Education.

Other quality activities:
The funds may be used for comprehensive consumer education, to monitor licensing and regulatory requirements, and for professional development.  They may also be used for actives that promote inclusive child care, youth focused health programs, and activities that increase parental choice.

Provider Reimbursement Rates

Tiered Reimbursement Rate System:
Group child care centers that achieve accreditation from the NAEYC and NECPA are entitled to the highest rates, in recognition of higher standards in those facilities.  On the next tier, family child care homes and group family child care homes that are accredited also are entitled to receive higher rates than those similar facilities that do not achieve accreditation.  The DHS established lower rates for unregulated and part-time care.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care

Program Licensing Policies

Systems/Quality Supports

21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)

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Statewide Initiatives

• The After School Plus (A+) Program. Hawaii’s A+ Program is the outcome of a joint effort between the former Governor’s Sub-cabinet on Early Childhood Education and Child Care, the Board of Education and the State Department of Education. Established in 1990, the Hawaii Department of Education runs the A+ program, which provides after-school care (including homework assistance, enrichment activities and supervised recreational activities) until 5:30 p.m. each school day during the regular school year. Over 190 elementary schools in the state participate in the program. The A+ program is available statewide to all elementary children whose parents work, attend school, or are in job-training programs. Funds support after-school child care programs in schools as well as in community-based programs. While there is a participation fee, the Department of Human Services has a "memorandum of agreement" with the Department of Education to use Child Care and Development Fund dollars to subsidize the cost of care for eligible children. Currently, the program is supported with $6 million in state general funds that serve as Maintenance of Effort funds for TANF. The current agreement provides for a payment of $80/month per subsidy eligible child.

  For more information, see http://doe.k12.hi.us/programs/aplus.htm

• Hawaii Afterschool Initiative. In April 2002, the Hawaii legislature adopted HR 69, establishing a Special Assistant on Children and Families in the office of the governor to convene and chair a task force to be known as the Hawaii Afterschool Initiative. The task force’s activities include the development of a plan to ensure quality afterschool programs for every school-age child in the state, implementing a needs-assessment, and mapping existing funding streams and programs. One outcome of this initiative is the development of a planning process for statewide afterschool for middle school students. Representatives from the Department of Human Services, the Department of Education, and the Lieutenant Governor’s staff have met twice and are working on developing a community planning process. The middle schools initiative will emphasize teen pregnancy and drug abuse prevention.

  The Task Force recently met and developed a community planning process.  As a result of the Task Force's efforts, there are afterschool programs for middle school students in participating Dept. of Education Middle Schools which is known as the Uniting Peer Learning, Integrating New Knowledge (UPLINK) Program.

  For more information, see http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/02elegis.htm.

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Notable Local Initiatives

• Honolulu’s Summer Fun Program. The Summer Fun program is the largest of its kind in Hawaii, serving about 11,000 school age children each year in Honolulu. The city of Honolulu’s Parks and Recreation sponsors the program, which runs approximately seven weeks at over sixty sites islandwide. While there is a $25 Registration fee, it is waived for families receiving state aid with letter of eligibility.

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Statewide Organizations

National AfterSchool Association Affiliate:

Not Available

Statewide Child Care Resource & Referral Network:

PATCH-People Attentive to Children
650 Iwilei Road, Suite 205
Honolulu, HI 96817
Phone: 808-839-1988
Toll Free: 800-498-4145
Fax: 808-839-1799
Web: http://www.patchhawaii.org
Note: Hawaii’s Only Statewide Child Care Resource & Referral Agency

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Additional Resources

State Child Care Administrators:
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/statedata/dirs/display.cfm?title=ccdf

State TANF Contacts:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/states/tanf-dr.htm

21st Century Community Learning Centers Contacts:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/21stcclc/contacts.html

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Notes and Sources

Demographics

Total population, 2008: Annual Estimates of the Population for the United States, Regions, States, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2008, U.S. Census Bureau.

Number of children ages 5-12, 2008: Estimates of the Resident Population by Single-Year of Age and Sex for the United States and States: July 1, 2007, U.S. Census Bureau.

Percent of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch rate, 2006: Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005-06. U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Note: Most recent data.

Percent of K-12 students in Title I "schoolwide" schools, 2006: Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2005-06. U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics. Schools enrolling at least 40 percent of students from poor families are eligible to use Title I funds for schoolwide programs that serve all children in the school. Note: Most recent data.

Child Care and Development Fund

The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is the largest federal funding source for child care. States receive a funding allocation determined by formula and have broad flexibility to design programs that provide child care subsidies for low-income children under the age of 13 and to enhance the quality of child care for all children. Federal CCDF funding consists of mandatory, matching, and discretionary funds. Federal law requires that states spend at least 4 percent of their CCDF funds as well as additional targeted funds on activities to improve the quality and availability of child care. CCDF administrative data in this and the following sections is from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Child Care Bureau, as reported by States, unless otherwise noted.

FFY09 CCDF Allocation: Funding allocations are based on appropriation and do not reflect any reallotted or redistributed funds that may occur at a later date.

FFY09 state MOE plus match: In order to receive Federal matching funds, a state must expend Maintenance of Effort funds. Note that this does not capture actual expenditures, only the minimum required to draw down all available federal funds.

FFY09 Tribal CCDF Allocation: Federal CCDF Funds are awarded directly to Federally-recognized Indian Tribes.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) appropriates an additional $2 billion in one-time CCDF Discretionary funding available to State, Territory and Tribal Lead Agencies in FY09 as part of the economic stimulus package.

FFY07 total quality expenditures: This data includes FY07 and prior year funds expended for quality from each of the CCDF funding streams (mandatory, matching, and discretionary) and expenditures under targeted funds for infant and toddler, school-age care and resource and referral. This figure provides information obtained from state financial reports submitted for FY07.

Uses of CCDF Targeted Funds and Quality Dollars for Afterschool: Portions of CCDF discretionary funds are targeted specifically for resource and referral and school-age child care activities as well as for quality expansion. (These funds are in addition to the required 4 percent minimum quality expenditure.)

Maximum rate for school-age category: Rates are listed for center-based care, family child care, and license exempt programs; where rates vary by region or county, the rate for the most populated urban area is given.

Standardized monthly school-age rate: Monthly rate for a child, age 8, in care after school during the school year at a center in the most costly district for four hours per day, 20 days per month. Calculated (in the lowest tier of a tiered system) using information from the FY2008-2009 State CCDF Plan, including rate structures, as submitted to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.

Separate subsidy rates for different age ranges and Tiered Reimbursement Rate Systems: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Child Care Bureau. Report of State Plans FY2008-2009.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Child Care

In addition to spending TANF funds directly on child care, a state may transfer up to 30 percent of its TANF grant to CCDF. Expenditures represent TANF funds spent in FY07 that were awarded in FY07 and prior years. Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, available at: In addition to spending TANF funds directly on child care, a state may transfer up to 30 percent of its TANF grant to CCDF. Expenditures represent TANF funds spent in FY07 that were awarded in FY07 and prior years. Data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, available at: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofs/data/2007/tanf_2007.html.

Program Licensing Policies

States with separate school-age licensing standards and states with specialized requirements for child care centers serving school-age children: National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center (NCCIC) and National Association for Regulatory Administration, 2007 Child Care Licensing Study, see: http://www.naralicensing.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=160.

Ratio of children to adults in school-age setting: Data from the National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), available at: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov.

School-based, school-age programs exempt from licensing: Research conducted by Afterschool Investments, March 2008.

Systems/Quality Supports

School-age credential: NCCIC, State Professional Development System Credentials for Individuals, see: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/poptopics/pd-credentials.html.

Statewide quality rating system: NCCIC, Quality Rating Systems: Definitions and Statewide Systems, see: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/qrs-defsystems.html.

Statewide afterschool network: National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks, see: http://www.statewideafterschoolnetworks.net/.

21st Century Community Learning Centers

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program is a state formula grant. Funds flow to states based on their share of Title I, Part A funds. Data from the U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers Office and the 21st CCLC Profile and Performance Information Collection System as of July 2009.

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The Child Care Bureau awarded a technical assistance contract to The Finance Project for the Afterschool Investments project. The goals of the Afterschool Investments project include:

• Identifying ways that state and communities are using Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidy and quality dollars to support out-of-school time programs, and sharing these practices and approaches with other states;
• Identifying administrative and implementation issues related to CCDF investments in out-of-school time programs, and providing information and context (about barriers, problems, opportunities) as well as practical tools that will help CCDF administrators make decisions; and
• Identifying other major programs and sectors that are potential partners for CCDF in supporting out-of-school time programs and providing models, strategies, and tools for coordination with other programs and sectors.

Contact Us:

Email:
afterschool@financeproject.org

Web:
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The Finance Project
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Phone: 202-587-1000
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The Afterschool Investments project's State Profiles are designed to provide a comprehensive overview of noteworthy State and local initiatives across the country. Inclusion of an initiative in the Profiles does not represent an endorsement of a particular policy or practice.