About me
Patricia "Patty" Chin is the HI H.O.P.E.S. Statewide Initiative Manager at EPIC ʻOhana, Inc. Patty is an alumnus from the Kaua’i HI H.O.P.E.S. Youth Leadership Board. She is a Jim Casey Fellow (2016 cohort) and was honored as an outstanding young leader in 2017. The Treehouse Foundation Inc. named her a 2022 Re-Envisioning Foster Care in America (REFCA) Champion. Patty served on the National Advisory Committee of the Casey Foundation's Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative from 2018 - 2021. Patty also worked at EPIC ʻOhana, Inc. as the Pono Process Lead assisting youth in foster care who sought grievance support. In her last position, Patty was a program associate with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, where she supported demonstration sites in standing up SOUL Family, as a legal permanency option. Patty holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences with a concentration in psychology from the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu. Patty has lived experience in the child welfare system believes that “this work is her life and her legacy”. ‘Ohana means to world to Patty and is something she strives to demonstrate in everything that she does to ensure that young people have people in their lives they can trust and turn to as well as seeing the possibilities of their lives and future outside of the foster care system.