This is the adult day care facility run by the Special Education Center of Hawaii or SECOH. 

SECOH is the recipient of the $255,000 grant from the Hawaii Community Foundation. 

This is good news for seniors and their caregivers.

"For folks who are 65 years or older who demonstrate financial need, we are able to offer free adult day care service,” said Sandy Yoro, SECOH.

SECOH runs six adult day care centers around the island. 

The tuition assistance is being offered at the Kahala and Wahiawa locations.

"At the Kahala location, we're licensed for 24 folks and we currently have 18 enrolled, so we do have space for people.  At our Wahiawa location, we're licensed for 20 and we currently have 15, so we have some pukas there, too,” she said.

The special education center of Hawaii has been in operation since 1965. 

Its stated goal is to promote successful community living in the lifestyle of choice. 

Sandy Yoro is proud of the variety of things seniors are involved in at the center.

"And folks can come and spend their day with us doing really fun and wonderful things.  We do arts and crafts, we have cooking classes, we have computers, we have exercise, music, karaoke,” she said.

Seniors often take field trips and some centers are open on Saturdays.

"We also support people with Alzheimers and dementia.  So we are able to - as long as we know that we can keep you healthy and safe and happy - we can pretty much support anybody,” she said.

The Hawaii community foundation grant runs for three years and as Yoro says, is very timely.

"Yes, and we encourage people to call us because we have service to give away and that's just really wonderful especially during this time when people are losing services,” she said.

You can call the Special Education Center of Hawaii at #739-2745.