Hawaiʻi’s continuum of care for youth who have experienced exploitation
Child Exploitation happens in the dark. Shine the light.
Because we cannot protect what we refuse to see. Look, learn, act.
Hoʻōla Nā Pua (HNP) is committed to the prevention of child sex trafficking and providing care and healing for youth who have experienced exploitation and abuse. Through prevention education, advocacy, mentorship, and therapeutic services, HNP works to strengthen communities and create pathways toward long-term healing and resilience. As part of this continuum of care, Hoʻōla Nā Pua’s Bromley Family Pearl Haven Campus serves as Hawaiʻi’s only licensed residential treatment program dedicated to serving minor survivors of sex trafficking and sexual abuse.
◎ Hawaiʻi’s Urgency
Hoʻōla Nā Pua, meaning “New Life for Our Children,” places the health of Hawaiʻi’s youth at the center of our mission because sex trafficking remains one of the most complex and hidden forms of abuse in our community.
Institutional trust begins with visible structure.
Healing is not a moment. It is a coordinated response across prevention, intervention, treatment, mentorship, and long-term alumni care.
17 Years of Service
Trusted Partner
Accountability Matters
CARF Accredited
Youth reached
53K+
Individuals trained
49K+
Public reach
13.9M
Annual Event
Voices of Hope
Voices of Hope is an intimate concert and culinary experience bringing together community leaders, philanthropists, and partners committed to creating lasting impact for Hawaiʻi’s youth. With just 500 seats and access reserved exclusively through sponsorship, the evening is intentionally designed to foster meaningful connection, elevated hospitality, and shared purpose.
From the red carpet arrival to the chef-curated culinary experience and live performances, every detail reflects a night shaped by excellence, influence, and collective responsibility.
Healing in Action
A continuum designed for long-term resilience.
Healing at Hoʻōla Nā Pua combines clinical care with experiential programs that help youth rebuild trust, confidence, and connection. Through equine therapy, surf, music, arts and culture, culinary experiences, and gardening, young people are supported through a continuum of care designed to foster long-term healing and resilience.
How it began
Hoʻōla Nā Pua began when hidden harm became impossible to ignore.
Over a decade ago, founder Jessica Muñoz was working as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room when she began noticing signs of physical and psychological abuse in sexually exploited children in Hawaiʻi.
Because child sex trafficking is so often hidden, that abuse was frequently misidentified and left untreated. What she saw was not only a crisis, but a gap: children in urgent need of intervention, protection, and long-term healing with no sustainable system built around them.
Hoʻōla Nā Pua grew out of the difficult but necessary conversations that followed with stakeholders, community leaders, and partners across Hawaiʻi. Those early conversations became a larger movement toward prevention, trauma-informed care, survivor advocacy, and the creation of Pearl Haven.
Who we are
A comprehensive response to a complex problem.
For over 17 years, Hoʻōla Nā Pua has addressed child exploitation through an integrated system of prevention, intervention, residential treatment, mentorship, and long-term alumni support.
Our work is trauma-responsive, clinically informed, and designed not simply to interrupt crisis, but to restore the trajectory of a young person's life.
Safe environments
Spaces designed to reduce stress, restore regulation, and support dignity.
Human connection
Care that remains relational, consistent, and grounded in trust over time.
Long-term healing
Support structured not around a moment, but around sustained restoration.
Pearl Haven
A place designed for safety, reconnection, and clinical healing.
Pearl Haven is a 32-bed, CARF-accredited Special Treatment Facility and the first of its kind in Hawaiʻi, designed for youth ages 11-17 with complex trauma or serious emotional and behavioral disturbances related to likely sexual abuse, exploitation, or trafficking.
83
Clients reflected in the 2026 Youth Experience Survey
42.2%
Experienced homelessness before or during the pathway into care
66.3%
Had foster care or child welfare system involvement
Continuum of care
Structured restoration. Not isolated services.
Each layer strengthens the next. Each youth receives an individualized pathway toward safety and stability.
Prevention
Reducing vulnerability through education, awareness, and community readiness.
Prevention turns invisibility into awareness.
Education equips youth, families, and communities with language for risk, boundaries, grooming, and early intervention.
Intervention
Disrupting active exploitation and connecting youth to immediate support.
Intervention creates a safer next step.
Once exploitation is active, response systems must move quickly and connect youth to care that is stabilizing, not fragmented.
Residential Treatment
Stabilizing trauma through Pearl Haven's licensed, therapeutic environment.
Residential treatment restores regulation and safety.
Pearl Haven is positioned as the clinical core of the model, where trauma recovery can happen within licensed, structured care.
Mentorship
Rebuilding relational trust through consistent, safe, long-term connection.
Mentorship rebuilds trust through consistency.
Healing deepens when safe adults stay present long enough for trust to become real again.
Alumni Support
Sustaining resilience with post-program care, planning, and community.
Alumni support protects durability.
Post-program systems keep progress from collapsing after discharge and support a longer arc of resilience.
Financial clarity
Transparent stewardship. Clear use of funds.
Donor confidence grows when program rigor is matched by financial visibility. Hoʻōla Nā Pua’s published reporting shows both operational scale and where support is actually going.
$6.42M total revenue & support
66% directed to Pearl Haven
15% community programs
4-star accountability
Why give
Support does more than fund a moment of crisis response.
Giving helps sustain the full continuum: prevention education, intervention pathways, licensed residential treatment, mentoring relationships, and longer-term recovery support.
Impact signal
Restoration that is measured.
Healing is not abstract. It is structured, tracked, and sustained. Hoʻōla Nā Pua measures stabilization, trauma recovery, educational reintegration, relational consistency, and long-term safety planning so restoration is durable, not temporary.
View Impact & Outcomes49,000+ trained
Individuals across Hawaiʻi strengthened awareness and response in tourism, education, military, medical, and other essential systems.
53,000+ youth reached
Community-based programs expanded connection, guidance, and mentorship where vulnerability is often highest.
13.9 million+ reached
As a trusted public voice, HNP has elevated awareness and given visibility to what too often stays unseen.
Continuing care
Aftercare and survivor advocacy remain part of the model so support does not end when the immediate crisis does.
The Data is not Dim.
It’s blinding.
Verified indicators from Pearl Haven’s 2026 Youth Experience Survey and NCMEC’s current reporting on online exploitation.
4 in 5
Exploited youth in Hawaiʻi are local
14–11–8
Average age of first sexual exploitation
1,325%
Increase in AI-related CyberTipline reports in 2024
Stories
Voices of restoration.
"I felt safe enough to be a child again."
"For the first time, I was around adults I could trust."
"Healing started when I realized my future could still belong to me."
Media + authority
A trusted voice on exploitation, prevention, and healing.
Hoʻōla Nā Pua is not only featured in media. It helps shape the public understanding of what prevention, intervention, and long-term care actually require.
HNP's public voice is credible because it is grounded in direct service, licensed care, statewide education, survivor-centered advocacy, and years of operational experience in Hawaiʻi.
That combination makes the organization a trusted translator between frontline reality, public awareness, and donor-level partnership.
Trusted Voice
Education
Advocacy
Care
HI Now HNN Series
A dedicated television series focused on child sex trafficking in Hawaiʻi.
HNP was featured across a multi-part HI Now series that unpacked trafficking, prevention, programming, and Pearl Haven for a statewide audience.
View series featureHI Now Daily
Pearl Haven was presented publicly as Hawaiʻi’s first-of-its-kind healing campus.
Coverage emphasized the therapeutic environment, specialized services, and the need for long-term care beyond immediate rescue.
Explore Pearl Haven coverageProfessional Education
HNP contributes to how professionals understand CSEC and respond more effectively.
Public writing and training content connect research, field experience, and actionable awareness for child-serving professionals.
Read the training pieceDigital Safety
HNP is speaking clearly about emerging online threats, including AI-facilitated harm.
The organization is helping translate fast-changing child safety risks into language that families, donors, and institutions can act on.
Read the call to actionTake action
Building a future where every child is safe.
Healing requires stability. Stability requires partnership. Your support strengthens safety, dignity, and long-term resilience for Hawaiʻi’s youth.
One-time gift
Respond to urgent needs across care, prevention, and recovery.
Monthly giving
Create steadier support for programming that must remain consistent over time.
Leadership partnership
Fund deeper capacity, long-term growth, and durable systems of care.