About H.O.T.T. INC.

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 Aiming to promote mental health awareness, maintenance and wellness to troubled teens by offering performing arts, sports programs, and counseling services. Our goal is to help awaken forgotten dreams, and allow them to pursue new possibilities, while keeping them off the streets and out of trouble.   

 Changing the course of troubled teens by creating a safe space where they can heal, grow, and thrive, to become positive future role models and leaders. We will also provide the opportunity to receive spiritual, physical, and mental restoration, by allowing them to expand their minds with positive coping methods and strategies.  

 In 2020, during the pandemic, Mercedes twin grandsons came to stay with her in New York. They had previously stayed on their uncle's farm due to behavioral issues and returned as computer-savvy teenagers, but appeared unhappy, unsociable, and irritated. During their stay I noticed the growing trends of teenagers isolating themselves with their phones, using nonverbal communication methods like texting, and not having real conversations. The situation worsened when my grandsons' best friend, 17-year-old Angel, was murdered. This event led the grandsons to open up about their social media lives, revealing a world where many kids are venting, making death threats, and expressing suicidal thoughts online. As a concerned parent/grandmother, I recognized the importance of real human connection and communication in providing hope and support, rather than relying on impersonal texts in such critical moments. Reflecting on my own personal experience, I realized that someone needed to take action in providing support to teens by giving them a positive place to go, and giving them something to do. HOTT INC. was developed to help troubled teens chase their dreams, while being able to find positive coping methods to deal with their trauma and pain.