Community Assistance Center
To reduce recidivism and improve community safety by providing rehabilitative treatment, counseling, reentry supports, and skills training for offenders, ex-offenders, and at-risk youth across Hawaiʻi.
About Community Assistance Center
Community Assistance Center (CAC) of Honolulu is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1958 and verified to operate under EIN 99-0093057. It delivers court- and corrections-referred programming focused on rehabilitation, reentry supports, and alternatives to incarceration. CAC operates multiple long-running programs including its original community assistance and reentry services, a Juvenile Anger Management Program (JAMP), and a Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) that serves incarcerated and probationary clients across Oʻahu, Maui, and the Island of Hawaiʻi. The organization emphasizes cognitive-behavioral therapy, victim empathy, and practical supports such as job-placement and housing referrals. Recent public filings through 2024 show continued operations with annual revenues in the low-to-mid six figures and ongoing program delivery; CAC maintains multi-island contracts/relationships with correctional and probation systems and remains active in community and court-referred services.
Notable achievements
Decades of continuous service
Founded in 1958, CAC has provided continuous reentry and rehabilitative services for more than six decades and helped establish early correctional supports in Hawaiʻi (including founding programs such as Liliha House in 1970).
Measurable SOTP impact
Since launching its Sex Offender Treatment Program in 1991, CAC reports more than 3,000 program completions with an observed convicted reoffense rate for new sexual assaults well below commonly cited national averages.
Juvenile program outcomes
The Juvenile Anger Management Program (JAMP), operating since 1988, reports a success rate of over 80% of participants who complete the course not reoffending.
At a glance
- Total assets
- $426K
- Annual revenue
- $358K
- Tax status
- 501(c)(3)Public charity
- EIN
- 99-0093057
- Location
- Honolulu, HI
- Website
- www.cachawaii.org
- On Mahalo since
- May 2026
Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.
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