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e Applicant Organization: Kau Learning Center for Hawaii County P&R RFP Number: Date Prepared: December 30. 1997 1. OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM SERVICE AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION (continued) Equipment to be purchased: 1) Ocean View--Sony CCD-TR930 Hi 8 camera; Sony VCT-R630RM tripod; Sony EVS-5000 Hi 8 tape deck: Sony SSLV-980HF VHS tape deck: Videonics mixer. 2) Na'alehu--Ten P166/64-NIB/3.5G computers and 1 NT dual processor server 128M/7.0G/ modem 24xCD-RObl/floppy/monitor/videocard/keyboard/mouse networked via 12-port hub with A indows 95, Office 97, and Publisher 97 software. 3) Pahala--one poi-making machine. II. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM/NEED A. Description. The geographic areas of the target community go from the zaStem cage of ranara appiu.wii. Lam;' thirh, miles to the western edge of Ocean View. Ka' u was selected by Hawaii County to be the focus of this grant because it is one of the most economically distressed communities in the State. This economic stress is revealing itself in multiple forms of social stress, for example, the six-fold increase in reported infractions at Na' alehu Elementary School. Ka' u is made up of three distinct communities. In order to get the communities working to- gether on this problem. we have addressed the needs of all three communities.and while this grant proposal initially starts out with three projects, in years two and three they focus in on the marketable technolov, skills. The Council members from Ocean View and Pahala realize that, if successful, the Na' alehu project will be the seed that germinates into a district-wide endeavour. The problems unique to Ka' u and its three major neighborhoods are outlined on the first page of the Community Report accompanying this document. The difficulty in creating effective programs to reduce the tendency towards delinquency is that participation by the youth needs to be voluntary, so we need to have projects that contain elements that are attractive to the youth. Each of our communities has looked at this problem and decided for their community what the -carrot' should be. As a result, the communities have put forward three separate projects. Each project has a distinctive attraction to the youth based on the predominant activities already under way in that commurtity. • For the agricultural community of Pahala, we have an agricultural "carrot'--a poi machine. • To tie in with the computer technology program already in place at Na' alehu school, we have the computer technology "carrot". • To tie in with the theater and performance program already in place at the Ocean View com- munity center. we have the video.' communications technology project . 5