YCA’s new Hilo facility
The Hawaii Youth ChalleNGe Academy, a program of the National Guard with a focus on at-risk teenagers, will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new location Thursday.
The state and federally funded program takes a “quasi-military” approach to help its students plan and prepare for the future.
Beginning with the upcoming class of students, the program will be moved from its old site on the grounds of the Kulani Correctional Facility to the new campus at the Keaukaha Military Reservation. The program was relocated as part of the state’s plan to reopen the minimum security prison — which was closed because of budget concerns in 2009 — next month
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