David Hipp is the 2015 Outstanding Government Leader. He is the Executive Director of the State of Hawaii Office of Youth Services. He has spearheaded many important reforms in the juvenile justice system that have greatly increased the mental and physical well-being of these youth. Now, youth who have committed minor offenses can be diverted into treatment instead of incarceration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Hipp is the 2015 Outstanding Government Leader. He is the Executive Director of the State of Hawaii Office of Youth Services. He has spearheaded many important reforms in the juvenile justice system that have greatly increased the mental and physical well-being of these youth. Now, youth who have committed minor offenses can be diverted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalhealthhawaii.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}