Youth Impact Program at University of Hawaii 2017

Program Dates: July 3 – 14, 2017
Location: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Program Contacts:

Program Information:

Location: UH at Manoa 1337 Lower Campus Road
9:00am – 3:00pm

Restaurants:

Alan Wong’s
Big City Diner
Chef Chai
Diamond Head Market
DK/Sansei
Eating House 1849
Hawaii Volcanic Water Highway Inn Kaka’ako
Hula Grill
Kahala Hotel & Resort
Koko Head Café
McDonald’s McCully
Murphy’s Bar & Grill
MW Restaurant Pig & The Lady
Rainbow Drive-In
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Roy’s Waikiki
Sodexo
StripSteak Waikiki
Zippy’s McCully

Make an Impact, Ignite Hearts, Change Lives in Hawaii, & Join our Winning Team!
The University of Hawaii hosted for the first time ever, a two-week program with the Youth Impact Program from July 3 – July 14, 2017. We identified over 100 young boys that are at risk and economically disadvantaged in Honolulu.

Watch the video below for a recap of the program:

YIP is an educational (STEM) leadership program that establishes trust, relationships, and access between the greatest learning institution in Hawaii and the disadvantaged youth in Honolulu. YIP increases academic scores, provides winning culture, instills respect, discipline, and character that reduces youth violence, provides educational growth, and develops life skills using the students and staff of the University of Hawaii and the YIP team.

The University of Hawaii YIP is composed of UH Student-Athletes of the Football Program and Athletic Department staff, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Army Pacific. During the two-week program, students receive over 60 classroom hours of instruction covering the fundamental school subjects of Maths, English and Science, and life skills. The program is designed to ignite passion within the young students on education, desire to graduate from high school and achieve secondary education, and most important to have the courage of leadership and character to overcome the challenging environments they face in and live on a daily basis.

The program’s goal is to help increase high school graduation rates and to provide these students the confidence and courage to responsibly make the right decisions at the right time for the right reasons under stress or duress for their lifetime.

The University of Hawaii YIP covered the entire cost of the program for each “at-risk” youth participating which includes clothing, two meals a day, daily transportation, field trips, program staffing by UH Student-Athletes, academic and athletic material at the University of Hawaii campus.

The students also experience two hours a day of physical development, football skills, and winning culture taught and coached by the University of Hawaii student-athletes.

Our winning team at the core foundation build and onset of this great program with Chef Roy Yamaguchi, First Hawaiian Bank, Roberts Transportation, and 20 local Hawaiian restaurants.

Be a winner with us at the beginning foundation for the good of Hawaii, the good of the Honolulu Community and be on our winning team as we make a change and permanent impact for the good of the community, with the community, and by the community of Honolulu and Hawaii.

Respectfully,

Riki Ellison

Riki Ellison
Founder and Chairman
Youth Impact Program
rikiellison@youthimpactprogram.org

Instructor teaching students in the class

Group of people standing for the photograph

A Big Thank You to Our Sponsors!

Restaurants

Alan Wong’s
Big City Diner
Chef Chai
Diamond Head Market
DK/Sansei
Eating House 1849
Hawaii Volcanic Water
Highway Inn Kaka’ako
Hula Grill
Kahala Hotel & Resort
Koko Head Café
McDonald’s McCully
Murphy’s Bar & Grill
MW Restaurant
Pig & The Lady
Rainbow Drive-In
The Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Roy’s Waikiki
Sodexo
StripSteak Waikiki
Zippy’s McCully

This Youth Impact Program is a phenomenal inspiration from the Hawaiian Community who all came together as one, led by all of us, but especially Roy Yamaguchi.
The program is a reflection of the University of Hawaii and its winning leadership of Head Coach Nick Rolovich in his commitment to the community with his student-athletes, and the staff of the Athletic Department of the University of Hawaii, the United States Marines, and the United States Army. They were the dream makers and igniters of hearts for these boys from Honolulu.

Mahalo