We build sustainable lifestyles

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The Family Education Training Center of Hawaii (FETCH) is a University of Hawaii-based affiliate of the Family Education Centers of Hawaii (FECH), a nonprofit, 501 (c) (3), charitable organization. FETCH coordinates volunteer professionals and service-learning university students to provide services to families and youth on the island of Oahu. FETCH is also sponsored by the State Department of Health (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division) as well as the United States Department of Agriculture (National Institute of Food and Agriculture).

We provide programs during the spring and fall semesters which are the Family Advantage! Program and a Youth Advantage! Sustainable Internship program for middle and high school students. These programs are held at Hale Tuahine Farm, a research facility in Manoa that is utilized by the various departments of the College of Tropical Agriculture (CTAHR) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

 

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Program Values

  • Sustainable lifestyles come from a combination of doing useful, skill-building work (i.e. cooking and farming), and living in and contributing to cooperative families
  • Children learn to become cooperative, effective, respectful and responsible individuals when the adults in their lives commit themselves to becoming and modeling those same traits.  
  • Children and teens are treated and recognized as skilled, responsible members of their groups and are recognized for their contributions.
  • People”learn by doing” and “belong by contributing”

Former FETCH Office & Energy House & Gardens

Located on the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus and built and designed by the UH Manoa School of Architecture in 1976, the Energy House is a a model of energy conservation and production. The Family Education Training Center of Hawaii offices and programs took on the Energy House in 2010 after FETCH was required to relocate from the Miller Hall Annex portables in preparation of the construction of the Warrior Rec Center. From 2010-2012, the Energy House was the primary site for FETCH's programs, which completed multiple projects on the property (an aquaponics farm, and the property's beautiful multi-cultural themed gardens).  The primary site for FETCH's programs was moved to Hale Tuahine Farm in 2012. The Energy House was turned over to the responsibiity of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the summer of 2023 and is no longer operated by FECH.

Hale Tuahine Farm

Hale Tuahine is located in the Magoon Research Facility at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Agricultural Station, across the street from Manoa Marketplace. It is the location of the FETCH farm as well as the primary location of our Family Advantage and Youth Advantage Sustainable Internship Programs. In January 2012, we obtained permission to use the 10,000 square foot plot of land at the Magoon Research Facility in Manoa to start a Community Support Agriculture farm run by our mentors and high school interns. We share the facility with the aquaponics research group of the College of Tropical Agriculture at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Address: 2727 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI. 96822

Meet the FETCH Team

                                                                                                                     Program Manager
                                                                                                                         Norman Tansey

Program Support Coordinator
Normie Jean Taylan

FA Program Facilitator
Linda Perry

                                                                                                                             Evaluator
                                                                                                                              Kelly Grace