HI ‘A has continued our collaboration with MA‘O and the Wai‘ānae community through a second phase of the study, known as the alumni survey project. Conducted in the fall of 2020, the study comprised four components:

• 2 focus groups
• 62 responses to an online questionnaire (20% of the total alumni population)
• 21 one-one-one interviews
• 25 alumni biospecimen samples

Analysis of the survey data and narratives affirms the core tenets of the YLT theory of change: youth can be empowered to grow into powerful agents of change, who create tangible examples of the possible for each other, their families, and their communities, thereby laying the foundation for intergenerational transformational change. Key takeaways from the alumni project are captured in the graphic on this page.