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AUerrtal HaaNh Assoctatdon in Newell County HCR 1 Box ti/Z$ Kaaau, HawaN N674>i f~l f~7Jft ax: sNN-~t3 aarraN: arooan~llhawaii.net ~hll~II (In some d the foiowing, remember that Hawaii County has 12% d the state's population.) rev " Childn~ registered with the Family Guidance Cerrter( DOH, Child on) as d 10/31!01. Date is questionat>is because. 1. In one section dths reasivad Iiguros, k states that 1,7tf8 kids aro registered in Hawaii Co 2. In another section, that fipuro is 2,553. In either cane, however, R b 2296 dthe state's total c» yes r " C .Data is queatkxrable because: 1. lower than in aU our previous Surveys. It was subsequently amended in a revised pk chart, but the original report was wrong. 2. Ths annual sport had obvaw anon, misprints and internal InconsWencfss attributed, variously, to the way the progrema "court' the entered figures or to workers' mbtekes in entering data. Still, tite final figuro was 22% d the state's total. 4+~ at~eY9i61N._as~a:: si :.6i Countless studies have shorm that children who INs with domestic violence are many times more IUudy to e~srienoe chid abuse, to enter vkrlsM rehtionahipa as adults and to abuse their own children. Hawaii CountLr has over 23% d stele's TRO'a. cal ~w~~awa~ rva~ ~m: _ ; a ~ ; +is~ ustrrwi! In a pereonal communication, Fred Hdschuh, M.D., saki, 'In all my years as an emergency room doctor, I have alnwst never seen domesfic vlolena wkhout substance abuse present. Right now, 1 can't think d once' Thero rs a new federal grant to Turning Pdnt for Families, inc. (former Famiy Crisis Sheller, Inc.) to provide dornsstic violence interventbn services and troatrneM for Hawaiian and part- ,`4iawaifan famiiss who e, 38% of child vkxims a retb that is d,.anv~..arrow.a,d. w n exceptin an assertive IMerverrtron program, in conJuncfion with Kauai Communky Colbga, starting in the 8" grade, to help lagging students or those rwt conventionally motivated.