Our MissionHoops 4 Hope (H4H) is a nonprofit organization that utilizes basketball to engage and empower individuals experiencing homelessness. This provides an opportunity for participants to invest in their physical and mental well-being while having carefree fun.
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Our VisionHoops 4 Hope plans to further its recruitment by staying connected to shelter systems and connecting with individuals who could benefit from the space that H4H has worked to curate. H4H hopes to increase positive impacts and outcomes within individuals and the community. H4H also plans to continue integrating the community in the future through services that would benefit our participants by breaking down barriers and stigmas.
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Our Values
1. Respect & Acceptance:
From staff to participants to business partners to the H4H community as a whole, respect and acceptance are at the forefront of this program. We recognize ALL individuals as equal under our program PERIOD.
2. Commitment:
It takes a village. Volunteers and participants show up each week and strive to give 100% to their individual roles. Coaches, team captains, shelter staff, the water boy, scorekeepers, referees, the fans, registration staff, and all players forge together to make this league successful.
3. Empowerment:
This league promotes comradery amongst the men who are all in different chapters of their lives. Our players boost each other up emotionally and pick each other up, literally! Each week provides the potential for a new leader to step forward.
4. Exercise:
Many of these men cannot afford a gym membership. This is where H4H steps in. On top of the well-known physical benefits of exercise, it also helps release dopamine, nor-epinephrine, and serotonin, which boost overall mood and well-being while lowering stress levels. These benefits carry on well after the individual is finished exercising.
5. Interconnectedness / Community Integration:
We are all navigating this tricky thing called life together. It is often isolating, and feelings of hopelessness are natural. Our participants feel this stress more than anyone. When we all come together to smile and have fun for a couple hours, we are reminded that we have vastly more in common than differences with each other. H4H is a celebration that we are not alone in this.
6. Happiness:
Having fun, feeling good about our overall wellness, laughing with one another. That is what we are all about.
From staff to participants to business partners to the H4H community as a whole, respect and acceptance are at the forefront of this program. We recognize ALL individuals as equal under our program PERIOD.
2. Commitment:
It takes a village. Volunteers and participants show up each week and strive to give 100% to their individual roles. Coaches, team captains, shelter staff, the water boy, scorekeepers, referees, the fans, registration staff, and all players forge together to make this league successful.
3. Empowerment:
This league promotes comradery amongst the men who are all in different chapters of their lives. Our players boost each other up emotionally and pick each other up, literally! Each week provides the potential for a new leader to step forward.
4. Exercise:
Many of these men cannot afford a gym membership. This is where H4H steps in. On top of the well-known physical benefits of exercise, it also helps release dopamine, nor-epinephrine, and serotonin, which boost overall mood and well-being while lowering stress levels. These benefits carry on well after the individual is finished exercising.
5. Interconnectedness / Community Integration:
We are all navigating this tricky thing called life together. It is often isolating, and feelings of hopelessness are natural. Our participants feel this stress more than anyone. When we all come together to smile and have fun for a couple hours, we are reminded that we have vastly more in common than differences with each other. H4H is a celebration that we are not alone in this.
6. Happiness:
Having fun, feeling good about our overall wellness, laughing with one another. That is what we are all about.
