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Kaiser backs camp for special-needs kids


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POSTED: Monday, November 17, 2008

Kaiser Permanente gave $1,000 to Imua Family Services to support its annual Camp Imua program. Beginning in 1976, Imua has provided a free, weeklong recreational camp for 50 children with special needs and disabilities. Camp Imua is held each year in June at Camp Maluhia in the West Maui Mountains.

  Easter Seals Hawaii has received a $250,000 grant from the McInerny Foundation in support of its new West Oahu Service Center, Napuakea. The 20,000-square-foot, $8 million facility in Makakilo is scheduled to open in late summer. Meant for underserved communities, including the Waianae coast, Napuakea will support children and young adults with disabilities and their families. Napuakea will offer early intervention services for those from birth to age 3; youth services; occupational, physical and speech therapies; and adult health, including work-force development.

  St. Francis Home Care Services-Kauai has received a $60,000 grant from the Antone and Edene Vidinha Trust to allow the home health agency to lease new telehealth monitors. The agency became the first on Kauai to offer telehealth monitoring to its patients.


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