Hawai'i Island Workforce and Economic Development Ohana (HIWEDO)

The huiana student to workplace mentoring program focuses primarily on west Hawaii Island high school youth as the labor force of the future. Huiana brings business, education, and community partnership together to foster and strengthen students' work-based skills and define career aspirations. We build bridges between school and the workplace allowing the student to have a successful transition following postsecondary training, from one environment to the other. Hiwedo promotes workplace mentoring as an effective transition and training tool. For the fiscal year ending june 30, 2021 the organization mentored and worked with students from west Hawaii Island but was limited in the contacts that could be made due to covid-19 safety potocals.