Good place if you want to be a head delegate, but a great place if you want to get a high-authority position in the organization (e.g., become a Staff or Board of Director member, etc.). However, if you're planning or thinking about having your child join the organization as an athlete (at least here), better think twice or more before doing so. Throughout my time being involved in the organization within this branch, I've seen and/or heard it all first hand, and it's disastrous.
In Hawaii, it's an organization run by a bunch of irresponsible people who are power- and/or money-hungry, has a big mouth to get things in their favor, and lack experience with handling special needs kids. There are some people in the staff members that has been in power for at least 20-30+ years, but I'm unsure about anyone in the Board of Directors. They also have zero respect for athletes, even though they make it like they do by doing things like congratulating or complimenting them on their athletic performance and other achievements. The only athletes that they'll ever bother to do so are those who are Toastsmasters, which is like politics in this case, because some of their decisions are based on that, such as who gets to go to the Games. There's also a lack of gender diversity, due to the fact that it's a matriarch-dominated (female-dominated) branch. They also manipulate behind people's backs because they assume that everyone in the community is so passive that they won't speak-out against them for their bad actions, don't have the guts to start a protest to force them to be ousted in times of unfairness and injustice, and rig their system in their favor so that they can blame others for their mistakes, and stay in power as long as they want, regardless of how minor or major those mistakes are. One year during the Track and Field Area Games, I saw an athlete competing in an event, and suddenly out of nowhere, a volunteer shows up and runs with the athlete. Afterwards, the athlete got a participants' ribbon (or something like that) because they got disqualified by the volunteer's mistake, which is the rules. There was another incident that had a similar outcome to this. A several years ago, I've heard about a controversy that took place at the 2014 Softball State Games where the umpire stopped the time on his call instead of the players' when they're on defense, which allowed players on another team to run to home from second base when they're batting. After it took place, the losing team (the one that was disadvantaged by the controversy) stayed at the site for about half an hour to protest against the game and the Head Coaches of both teams had to meet with the Vice President and Sports Marketing Director overnight. As a result, he gave the decision the next day, where the losing team got the bronze while the other team (the one that got benefited from it) advanced onto the championship round, and on the side, the losing team got humiliated by the volunteers at the awards ceremony by doing it at an inappropriate location, which is outside of the Wahine Softball Stadium at University of Hawaii at Manoa. The apparent reason behind the decision is because it's the rules, again. The people who run the organization here are also emotional thinkers and lack common sense. Last year, I heard about an incident that took place at last year's Aukake Classic (or Soccer State Games), where a player scratched a soccer player on another team on the first day, and then the next day, apparently, the same person who handled that other controversy mentioned earlier, himself, talked to the athlete with the coach, which prompted the athlete to walk away from the games completely without returning. About a month later, the athlete got suspended for their actions that day. I've also heard that it was handled unfairly because they didn't ask the family for their side of the story. I heard that in the aftermath, the athlete's life was forever devastated, and apparently dropped out of college, as they were a college student during that time.
In-terms of the other branches, since there's others out there, I can't say anything about it because I've never been involved there before, but to really know what's going on and fairly determine whether if a branch is best for your child or not, you need to have the brains to figure it out without getting fooled by all the false, positive publicity.
Due to this, chances are you may be better off finding something else or, in a worse case scenario, move off to somewhere else, join the branch there, and see how it goes because this branch has a lot of flaws. read more