Cheers to the Honolulu Weekly for honoring Masahiro “Hiro” Ito, a Hawaii man who works with youth dealing with grief. Ito was orphaned at age 3 and did not deal with his loss until college when he broke down while watching a  video on children and grieving.

 “That was the beginning of my grief work,” Ito says.

Ito received a master’s degree in social work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and co-founded Kids Hurt Too and the Hawaii Foster Youth Coalition (HFYC), under the Outreach for Grieving Youth Alliance (OGYA).

To read the full Honolulu Weekly article click here.

To learn more about how social workers such as Masahiro Ito help clients visit the National Association of Social Workers’ “Help Starts Here” Grief and Loss Web page by clicking here.