Adult Friends for Youth
"Helping Children Believe That They Matter"
(A Non-Profit Tax Exempt Corporation)

3375 Koapaka Street, Suite B-290
Honolulu, Hawaii 96819
Phone:(808) 833-8775
Fax: (808) 833-6469
Email: afy@afyhawaii.com

A Brief History

Adult Friends for Youth (AFY) was established at the University of Hawaii School of Social Work in 1985. It began as a volunteer mentoring program for at risk children and adolescents funded by a two-year federal demonstration grant, and was incorporated as a non-profit corporation on December 8, 1986. Incorporation paved the way for management independent of the University on December 1, 1987 when the federal grant ended.

As time went by a professional staff was assembled to provide therapeutic and educational services that were beyond the scope of volunteers. In keeping with AFY�s evolution, the volunteer mentoring program was phased out in 1996.

An outcome of AFY�s professional growth and development was the emergence of new knowledge and a new approach to working with very high risk youth called the Redirectional Method.

AFY promotes educational achievement and offers a prescription of hope for significantly reducing poverty and destructive behaviors among high risk youth.

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