HOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL
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Mission Statement
Mission Statement: The mission of HRHII continues to be to provide increased opportunities for successful, fun interactions between those whose disabilities affect their communication and non-disabled volunteers of all ages while supporting their families, care providers and educators. These individuals include those who are non-verbal, having significant cognitive, physical, sensory and health challenges.
About This Cause
Home Run Hitters International Programs Explained Objectives: • To bring successful communication opportunities to increased numbers of individuals with IDD. • To facilitate changes: increased interactions and establish and enhance communication among all the persons with IDD that are served. • To support parents with times of respite ranging from 6 hours daily in camp and 12 hours daily during the special weekends. To fulfill our mission and accomplish our objective, we developed four portable programs. (The venues were created to fill the void in our current environments. There are few to no naturally occurring environments that support interaction and social communicative interaction for person’s with IDD who have no voice or whose communicative efforts are not easily understood.) The four programs have common elements. 1. They all include multi-sensory experiences. 2. They all involve one to one ratio, between the person with special abilities and the volunteer. (Ratios of two/three to one) 3. They are all under girded with various levels of technology, no tech to high tech. 4. They all have tasks that require active participation by the person with disabilities (hand over hand rarely seen) 5. And they all provide opportunities for fun interactions, communication and engagements with non-paid friends. Four HRHII Programs (All are Portable Programs) include: 1. Switch A-Thon, a community service event. To give the individuals with IDD an opportunity to independently to access a variety of sensory items through use of capability switches while benefiting the community. The dual purpose: a. To allow the person with IDD to show which sensory system and items are most and least preferred and to show which sensory items alert and which calm. b. To allow the person with IDD opportunities to show which point of access is easiest and most preferred. c. To allow the person with IDD to help the community by engaging sponsors who agree to donate to a named organization. The amount donated or what is donated is directly related to how many times the person with IDD hits the capability switches 2. Camp M.I. Way is an indoor camp. Give the individuals with IDD opportunity: a. To experience a camp setting/environment while making independent decisions and having independent control over the items in each environment (opening ceremony, traveling to different sites, crafts, singing songs around the campfire, etc.) b. To negate and affirm; say “want /don’t want” (yes / no) and have their decisions respected. c. To make and discuss their own daily schedule to include leisure and work-related activities around camp. 3. Away Weekends an interactive respite. Where individuals spend a 12-hour day in a vacation type environment. Allowing the parents time for themselves and other family members. a. To experience a leisure setting/environment while making independent decisions and having independent control over the items at each leisure setting (welcome time, guests and hosts/hostesses meet and greet, explore sites, crafts, singing songs, perform skits, tour hotel and community sites, etc.) b. To negate and affirm; say “want /don’t want” (yes / no) and have their decisions respected. c. Make and discuss own daily schedule to include leisure and work-related activities for the weekend. 4. Home Run Hitter Club is a sports club where individuals with IDD learn to play a game designed especially for them. a. They have the opportunity to initiate, maintain and terminate interactions. b. There are four parts of pragmatic / social communication that all individuals with IDD experience. They are: Greeting, Calling, Commenting and Joint Attention. (The club also includes special days such as: Sing A Rhyme Along(Performance where our players entertain non- disabled audiences of varying ages), Coronation, Playoff Games and Sports Banquet.) The S.A.T (Switch A Thon) and the Club are held during the fall and spring, during the day, at convenient times for the volunteer and the person with IDD. Camps are held during the summer. Camp is Monday-Fridays for our 1week camp from 8am-3pm. Our Away weekends are held in Spring and Summer in local hotels or Community facilities from 8am to 8pm. Home Run Hitter programs have run for more than 14 years (Away Weekends for 10 years). Our programs also give wonderful opportunities for Middle and High School students, families and community groups to volunteer. Many are able to learn how to give of themselves with intangibles being the reward.