KKV's Health Education Department conducts both day and evening health education classes at various convenient locations to members of the Kalihi Valley community. While teaching on other health issues may also be conducted, the core services presented include:

• Information on early breast cancer detection and instruction on how to conduct self breast examination for tumors
• Information on sexually transmitted diseases
• Information on safer sex and instruction on how to use a condom

During 2003, in response to community need, the classes have been forcused mainly on women's health issues. Merina Sapolu, Health Education Program Coordinator, and other KKV staff conducted meetings with various groups within the community to discuss and share information on reproductive health and illnesses.

The health educators worked with some of the churches in the area to bring mothers and daughters together to share information about these issues. In one of the churches, KKV partnered with the men, educating them on women's health issues so they could encourage their mothers, wives, aunties and grandmothers to participate in mammogram and pap smear screenings.

Over the past two years, KKV has been one of the most successful Breast and Cervical Control Program sites in the State of Hawai'i in providing Hawaiian, Filipino, and Pacific Islander, non-insured or under-insured women with mammogram and pap smear screenings.