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
- 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
