Ku Aloha Ola Mau - Hui Hoola O Na Nahulu O Hawaii

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Drug Addiction Services of Hawai'i

Ku Aloha Ola Mau - Drug Addiction Services of Hawai'i is a not-for-profit drug treatment program.

Formerly Drug Addiction Services of Hawai'i

A place of healing and recovery

Our mission: Kû Aloha Ola Mau (Kû Aloha) is committed to enhancing the quality of life in Hawaii through excellence in service and responsive action toward the individual and community’s needs surrounding chemical dependency.

Ku Aloha Ola Mau
Puna
15-1926 Puakala St
Keaau HI 96749
Tel: 808 982-9555
Fax: 808 982-9554

Kû Aloha has served over 8,000 persons who have had problems with alcohol and substance abuse and addiction since 1976. Through the organization's growth, a new philosophy and approach has emerged which is compassionate, holistic and centered around each participant or “haumana”(student). In July 2006, the Board of Directors voted to change the organization's name to be in line with its new philosophy and services:

Kû Aloha Ola Mau continues to transform and grow true to its name which means, “stand lovingly and compassionately in everlasting life and health”. We stand for those who are struggling to attain recovery and our services are given with the utmost Aloha.

Since 1976, the organization developed prevention education services related to the transmission of communicable diseases, offered intensive outpatient services, culturally and spiritually based services, medical and psychiatric services, pharmacotherapy and has integrated services such as lomilomi, acupuncture by licensed specialists and ho`oponopono by renown kupuna (elders). The program has become a comprehensive program offering psychiatric, social work, primary care, pharmacotherapy to include methadone, buprenorphine and other medications for the addiction of opiates, medication management and case management, outreach and counseling services.

In 1995 the program director received a national award for excellence in the field of opioid treatment. In 2003 this program of Kû Aloha also achieved national accreditation by CARF with the highest recommendation possible.

Kû Aloha’s cultural program in Puna has been recognized by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment as one of six model rural remote and culturally distinct projects in the nation. In 2003, the organization began working with the transgender population through a planning grant award from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Kû Aloha now participates in clinical trials for pegalyated interferon in the treatment of Hepatitis C and provides numerous community workshops.

Kû Aloha’s history is to incorporate interventions that are innovative and creative. In the past 17 years, Kû Aloha moved towards incorporation of evidenced based practices and research into its creative and loving process. In 1994, the organization began moving toward recognition of the importance of culture and spirituality. Today, the organization has begun serious incorporation of spirituality in all of Kû Aloha’s programs, sites and services.

Kû Aloha’s staff include certified substance abuse counselors, social workers, accounting staff, staff assistants, physicians, a psychiatrist, medical assistants, RN’s and LPN’s, marriage and family therapists and health educator/outreach worker. Volunteers include people from various walks of life including homemaking, graduates of the program, active haumana (student-client), psychology, personally experienced, social work and counseling psychology interns and psychiatric residents.

The organization is located in Honolulu, Hilo and Puna. It serves approximately 350 persons across all of its sites on a daily basis. More than half of these are on the Big Island.