| Welcome
to the FCJC Website!
As
I sit here preparing a welcome for you, there is an interview
going on within the CJC office. A child has been ravaged by
sexual abuse from a family member. The process is similar
to many interviews in the past, but the frustration of the
trained professionals conducting the interview is evident.
The
statistics are staggering and we are not immune. The services
funded by the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center
are crucial to the healing of these children, and we need
help from the community to make sure that everything is being
done to make them available.
Prevention
projects are necessary to give the children tools they can
use if confronted with such abuse. There are video projects
in the works and we produce the play “No More Secrets”
for third, fourth and fifth graders in Maui every three years.
If
you have any questions about the CJC or the FCJC after viewing
this site, please do not hesitate to contact me at 243-8686.
Sincerely,
Randy Echito
Executive Director
(Randy
Echito owned an independent insurance agency in California
for 23 years, and was very involved in community projects.
He moved to Kona twelve years ago to open a Baskin-Robbins
Ice Cream Store, and moved to Maui in November of 2001, to
become the Development Director of the Maui Academy of Performing
Arts. Having been involved as a volunteer and Board member
of the Friends of the Children’s Justice Center in West
Hawaii and then Maui, Randy was selected to be the Executive
Director of the Maui Friends one year ago. He has been a Rotarian
since 1977, and was President of the Rotary Club of Chino,
California in 1982; a member of the Rotary Club of Kona for
seven years, and a member of the Kahului Rotary Club for the
past four years. He is a three-time Paul Harris Fellow and
a Sully Sullivan Fellow. Randy has a married daughter in California,
and is active at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Keokea.)
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