Hatch’s House of Hope
Hatch’s House of Hope serves as a safe haven for families dealing with the effects of pediatric cancer on their lives. Staff at Hatch's integrates the specific needs of the family with hospital based and community services. The staff works towards developing additional services not provided elsewhere but needed to help children and their families affected by pediatric cancer function within our communities. Specifically, these include IEP Neurocognative testing, educational programming to help effected children overcome their cognitive and learning deficits, emotional counseling for the cancer effected child, their siblings and parents, and marital and financial counseling to ensure a safe environment to maximize the family growth as a whole. Through Hatch's the Austin Hatcher Foundation provides Bridging Scholarships (Hatch's Dollars) to assist families with acute financial discord resulting from the direct expenses and salary losses as a result of the pediatric cancer. Hatch's Dollars are awarded based on extreme financial need. Non-cash support is also available in the form of gas cards and grocery/food vouchers. Hatch's staff makes every effort to communicate the family’s financial situation to creditors, including utility companies, at the family’s approval to arrange alternative payment options during the treatment stage of pediatric cancer.
Hatch's staff works within the local and regional communities to provide diversionary therapies for families affected by pediatric cancer in an effort to return some normalcy of a cohesive family unit to their lives and develop positive family memories and activities necessary for health bodies and minds.
Hatch's serves as a Research Center for pediatric cancer related issues and learning deficits affecting children and families worldwide. Hatch's house of hopes will be built near Medical Centers treating Pediatric Cancer nationwide.
Programming:
• Child Care: during appointments and treatments
• Financial counseling
• Diversionary therapies
• Marital counseling
• Grief/bereavement service
• Peer support group: Parent, sibling, and effected child
• Educational advancement services
• IEP and Neurocognitive testing
Services provided at Hatch's are free of charge to families accepted for care.
Please contact us if you are interested in opening a Hatch’s house of hope in your area
