The Hatton Center

The Hatton Center opened in January 2011 !!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Among the rooms and their use in this center are the following:

Community Room 

  • Weekly pizza parties  
  • Weekly birthday celebrations-residents & staff
  • Holiday parties-Christmas, New Years, Halloween
  • Dances
  • Indoor basketball
  • Aerobics classes
  • Music therapy
  • Conferences & training classes
  • Workshops
  • Seminars
  • Parent Group meetings

Learning Center

  • Computers & mouse skills      
  • Word processing & computer games
  • Picture communication      
  • Reading and vocabulary
  • Writing skills                  
  • Math and money skills
  • Counting skills               
  • Learn to use a CD, VCR, DVDs 

Crafts Center

  • Candle making               
  • Pottery and ceramics
  • Dried flowers  and wreaths      
  • Painting and other artwork
  • Bird feeders                   
  • Bird houses
  • Holiday decorations using pumpkins, gourds etc grown on the farm         
  • Wind chimes 

Culinary learning Center (warming kitchen) 

  • Learn to operate microwave, toaster and stove
  • Cooking skill classes
  • Cook specialty items from the garden
  • Cook items for weekly parties (cookies and cakes)
  • Help fix box lunches for participants and staff
  • Manage onsite salad bard for staff at lunch
  • Cater on site meetings: training and conferences

 Conference/Movie  Room 

  • Meetings-Safe Haven or community
  • Conferences & training classes
  • Establish University collaboration 
  • Promote engagement of college communities with Safe Haven
  • Movies

Sensory Integration Room

  • keyboards
  • tactile walls
  • respons mood lights
  • projected images
  • sound beam senso-created music