Banquet Solutions Hawaii Inc.

“A copy of the form 990 will be e-mailed to the board and a meeting held to discuss before it is filed.”

“The organization regularly and consistently monitor and enforce compliance with the conflict of interest policy through reviews of contracts, implementation of multi-level approvals for processing of payments, and communication with the officers and directors via in-person meetings and electronic communications.”

“Governing documents, conflit of interest policy, and financial statements will be posted on bsh's website at www.banquetsolutionshawaii.org. Hard and electronic copies can be provided and/or viewed upon request.”

“Bsh entered into a cost reimbursement agreement with the hotel and restaurant industry employment and training trust (hariett), an unrelated organization, for services performed by hariett staff on bsh administrative activities in the amount of hours spent by staff members. James r. Hardway, the president of bsh is an employee of hariett. The compensation for james r. Hardway, reported on form 990, part vii, line 1a, column d, was the amount bsh reimbursed hariett for his time spent on bsh activities for 2020.”

“The primary goal of banquet solutions hawaii, inc. (bsh) is to provide education, training, and job referral (includes employment referrals, on-the-job training and temporary employment with wages and healthcare) to individuals who are unemployed or underemployed.”

“The primary goal of banquet solutions hawaii, inc. (bsh) is to provide education, training, and job referral (includes employment referrals, on-the-job training and temporary employment with wages and healthcare) to individuals who are unemployed or underemployed.”

“Bsh was created to assist unemployed and underemployed individuals with employment related education, training and job referrals to jobs in high demand industries in the state of hawaii. This includes, but is not limited healthcare, technology and the hospitality industries. Additionally, the job referral function includes temporary employment services to displaced workers that will provide wages and healthcare, as well as on-the-job training, and job placement assistance. For education and training, bsh primarily partners with the hotel and restaurant industry employment and training trust (hariett) and the university of hawaii community college system (uhcc), to assist and support unemployed and under-employed individuals in employment related education and training through either funding of tuition, support services and case management. This fills a particular need as most employment related services by the workforce development community in hawaii focus on work-readiness and employability and not actual job training. Bsh structure is designed to have very little overhead as it does not have a traditional; "brick and mortar" facility and is primarily staffed through a cost allocation agreement with hariett, where hariett staff administer bsh and is reimbursed for only the time work is performed for bsh. This allows for the vast majority of funding to be directed to services. Bsh's job referral program encompasses multiple projects. The first is assisting displaced workers with resume building and assistance in locating available jobs that meet their current skill sets or referring them to education and training to close that skill gap. Bsh is also the work experience, internship, on-the-job training, and apprenticeship partner with hariett and the uhcc system. Most employers prefer hiring individuals with experience regardless of educational and training attainment, bsh looks to fill that gap by partnering with public and private work sites to allow for experiential learning that would lead to full-time employment. Bsh also partners with public and private entities to create works sites that allow for temporary employment for unemployed and under-employed to be able to collect wages and healthcare benefits while looking for permanent employment. The majority of works sites are designed for the public good, such as addressing the homeless or assisting the state of hawaii with their covid-19 response efforts. In 2020, due to the global pandemic that closed hawaii's hospitality industry, bsh was awarded a contract to assist the state in it's covid-19 response efforts. Bsh assisted the state of hawaii department of health in creating and operating the first temporary quarantine & isolation center (tqic) in honolulu, hawaii in response to covid-19 to meet the anticipated needs of unsheltered individuals in our community. The center focused on quarantine and isolation services for unsheltered individuals, including those with symptoms of covid-19 awaiting test results. There are two referral pathways to tqic: (1) the emergency department (ed) or hospital, or (2) the coordinated access to resources entry system (cares) line. Even as the pandemic became an urgent impetus for establishing the tqic for unsheltered individuals, the need to provide ancillary support for individuals could not be ignored. Provision of services to homeless populations is complex because of disproportionately high rates of co-occurring behavioral health conditions which include mental health and substance use disorders as well as chronic comorbidities such as diabetes, cardiac conditions, etc. It was necessary to manage these chronic, pre-existing conditions in addition to covid-19 symptomatology. This required component afforded the opportunity to demonstrate the need and concept of a behavioral health crisis stabilization center for individuals experiencing homelessness and co-occurring health conditions. In the present system of care for behavioral heal”