Glories HATS Project®   HATS Headquarters®   eHATS Network™   HATS-On™ hospital delivery Read FAQ's		HATS Headquarters® HATS Headquarters® unit (HHQ) is an exportable "turn-key" mini-factory (cabinet) housed on-site, ideally in after-school, youth club, community center, faith-based, or special centers. This unit provides access to weekly/biweekly service opportunities that can be scheduled at the site's discretion.  The function of this program delivery platform is to provide sustained access to community service. Regularly channeling youth and their families toward wholesome leisure-time service opportunities in support of hospitalized children helps to help the cycle of poor conduct and mis-channeled destructive activities while increasing their workforce readiness, health awareness and civic engagement. Program duration is designed for up to 25 weekly workshop events (2 hours each) and contain all of the instructions, materials and tools necessary to produce either: a) 500 hats (20 hats per week over 25 weeks), or b) 1000 hats (40 hats per week over 25 weeks) depending on youth program size. Each workshop brings 10 - 50 youth participants and local mentors together in a 12-step developmentally appropriate assembly-line. Each of the twelve steps is a different production step interdependent on the others. Each workshop session covers a discussion topic in which certain ethical and social behaviors are actively cultivated. These sessions introduce health topics while they allow participants: a) to gain competency organizing, running and managing cellular-production producing Glories hats; b) to learn production forecasting and meet production/quality goals. In turn, participants build these capacities by: a)Inviting, training and leading representatives from local businesses into their workshops; b)Delivering the Glories hats to patients, families, and staff at local children's hospitals; c)Tour a local university and community college campus to understand their options in higher education; and d)Leading an off-site workshop. Participants complete the program cycle in possession of an entry-level resume highlighting workforce readiness skills, a Certificate of Appreciation from the hospital and be presented with a President's Volunteer Service Award from elected officials for their service. Scheduled as a weekly activity, the HATS Headquarters® program cycle:  Introduces production/workforce readiness concepts Division of labor, knowledge transfer, efficiency, productivity, workflow, quality control, time management, motivation and teambuilding,  Allows youth to deliver the product to hospitalized children. Making a positive difference, sense of efficacy, improving self-perception, understanding health challenges, and feeling valued in the community,  Encourages youth to teach newcomers and to lead additional community workshops. Builds confidence, leadership and self-esteem, reinforces communication and soft skills, increases exploration of new roles in the greater community,  Emphasizes the importance of efficacy and civic engagement in weekly service opportunities through a framework of: "Staying Healthy to Help Others", reducing our individual and collective environmental footprints. Discussion themes center on how students can transfer the skills gained to have a greater impact throughout their community.  Through curricular themes, applications of transferable skills are discussed in relation to: Allied Health and Environmental Careers. Students gain the skills and understanding to take their vision to the next level.  Because each hat is filled with "happy thoughts", participants use positive motivation and communication techniques. Building compassion for the patience it may take for a hospitalized child to recover allows youth to empathize and reinforces patience and quality in their work.  The benefits of this program platform are many. As youth master the 12-steps of the production line along with quality control of the Glories hats and personally deliver them to sick children, our research findings show the appreciative response from sick children and hospital staff works to transform participant negative self-perception into a genuine sense of efficacy.