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9 Months: Windows of Hope

Services  |  Meeting the Risk  |  Community Partners  |  Resources
9 Months: Windows of Hope provides supportive services for pregnant women 18+ years who are struggling with or at risk for alcohol and illicit substance use in the Hilo, Hamakua and Puna districts of Hawai`i Island.
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SERVICES
  • Outreach and community awareness
  • Adequate prenatal and postpartum care, including childbirth education, newborn care and safe breastfeeding practices during COVID
  • Intensive case management, including (but not limited to):
    - Housing
    - Basic needs, such as food, clothing and housing items
    - Child care
    - Education and/or job training
    - Employment, such as resume building and job-seeking skills
    - Transportation
    - Legal services
    - Mental health treatment services
    - Physical health/primary care services
    - Family/social concerns
    - Life skills, such as budgeting, goal setting, and personal hygiene
  • Substance abuse and behavioral health counseling
  • Assistance with accessing entitlement programs
  • Volunteer mentors
  • Compliance with terms and conditions of release, if involved in the justice system
  • Assistance with abstinence-based recovery
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
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Trillium Simington
Program Care Coordinator
9 Months: Window of Hope
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Zinah Loeb
Mentor Coordinator
Mentorship Program
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East Hawai`i Office
80 Pauahi St., Suite #203,  Hilo, HI  96720
Tel: (808) 491-2437       Fax: (808) 498-0315

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Meeting the Risk


Women who are low-income, justice-involved, of color, and/or use alcohol or illicit drugs are already at risk for negative birth outcomes. These risks increase when laws meant to protect pregnant women and their unborn children are used to make women criminally responsible for their fetus's well-being.

Substance abuse by pregnant women places their babies at risk for birth defects, behavioral problems and/or cognitive disabilities. These conditions may require costly treatment and have lifelong impact.

9 Months: Windows of Hope helps mothers stop using drugs and develop healthy lifestyles for both themselves and their babies, and builds community awareness and support. As many women also have histories of family trauma, the program works to empower them in knowing they have the wisdom and the skill to be good mothers.

9 Months is a program of Going Home Hawai'i, which
assists Hawai'i Island men, women, and youth released from correctional institutions with reintegration into community life through employment, education, training and appropriate supportive services.
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Program Care Coordinator Trillium Simington holding the first baby born to a mother who became healthy and sober through 9 Months: Windows of Hope.

Community Partners


  • Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (ADAD), Dept. of Health, County of Hawaii
  • Alu Like, Inc.
  • American Job Center
  • Bay Clinic, Inc.
  • Big Island Substance Abuse Council (BISAC)
  • Care Hawaii
  • Department of Health, State of Hawaii
  • Department of Public Safety (PSD), State of Hawaii
  • Hamakua-Kohala Health
  • Hawai`i Diaper Bank
  • Hawaii State Juciary - Third Circuit
  • Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii
  • Hilo Medical Center
  • Hope Inc.
  • Hui Mālama Ola Nā ʻŌiwi Family Medicine Clinic
  • Lokahi Treatment Centers
  • Ma`i Movement Inc.
  • Maternal Child Health Collaborative
  • Nest for Families
  • Dr. Frederick Nitta, OB-GYN
  • PATCH
  • Substance Abuse Prevention Information Alliance, County of Hawaii
  • Vibrant Hawaii
  • Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
  • Workforce Development Division, State of Hawaii
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Ma`i Movement Inc. contributes feminine hygiene products for Windows of Hope participants. WOH Program Care Coordinator Trillium Simington (back, 3rd from left) joins the team receiving a Proclamation from Mayor Mitch Roth in May 2021.

Resources


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Selected articles on justice-involved pregnant women, mothers and children
  • Women's Health Care in Correctional Settings
  • The Price They Pay: Protecting the Mother-Child Relationship Through the Use of Prison Nurseries and Residential Parenting Programs
  • The Realities of Pregnancy and Mothers While Incarcerated
  • Mothers Behind Bars: A state-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinedment for pregnant and parenting women and their effect on their children
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children (August 2000)
  • Prison & Birth - Midwives Alliance of North America
  • After Incarceration: A Guide to Helping Women Reenter the Community - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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Going Home Hawai'i  
East Hawai`i Office
80 Pauahi St., Suite #203,  Hilo, HI  96720
Tel: (808) 491-2437       Fax: (808) 498-0315

West Hawai`i Office
75-5708 Alahou Street, Apt 2C, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740 
Tel: (808) 464-4003     Fax: (808) 464-4288
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