Home Runs for Hope: How a Night at the Ballpark Supports Mental Health Care for Women and Families
There are nights when healing looks like a therapy appointment.
And there are nights when it looks like sharing popcorn in the stands, watching a child chase a foul ball, laughing with people who understand where you come from, and remembering that community can hold us, too.
This September, Daughters of Both Suns is bringing that kind of healing to the ballpark with Home Runs for Hope, a special fundraiser with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. It is a family-friendly night built around joy, connection, and a simple but powerful truth:
Mental health care should be accessible to everyone.
Join Us for Home Runs for Hope
Home Runs for Hope will take place on Saturday, September 5, 2026, at Myrtle Beach Pelicans Ballpark.
Event details:
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2026
Game time: 7:05 PM
Gates open: 6:00 PM
Location: Myrtle Beach Pelicans Ballpark
Address: 1251 21st Avenue North, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Tickets: $25 per person
Bring your family. Bring a friend. Bring the person who has been carrying too much and needs a night where they do not have to explain everything.
Come for the baseball.
Stay for the mission.
Every Ticket Helps Fund Healing
A night at the ballpark may feel simple. That is part of its beauty.
Accessible community events can create a softer entry point into conversations about mental health. Not everyone is ready to call a therapist. Not everyone knows where to begin. Some people have been taught that asking for help means they are weak, dramatic, or failing their families.
That stigma is real. So are the barriers.
For Black and Latina women, finding support can also mean navigating cultural misunderstandings, language gaps, insurance restrictions, provider shortages, transportation challenges, financial stress, and systems that were not designed with our communities in mind.
How many women have delayed care because they could not find a therapist who understood their lived experience? How many parents have had to choose between a mental health appointment and groceries? How many families have been told to “just be strong” when what they really needed was a resource, a referral, or someone willing to walk beside them?
We need to cut the shame.
We need to name the barriers.
And we need to build practical pathways to care.
Every Home Runs for Hope ticket supports programs throughout Horry and Georgetown Counties that improve:
Mental health access
Autism advocacy
Family wellness
Resource navigation
Community support services
Culturally responsive education and connection
That means your ticket helps support the work happening before, during, and after a crisis.
What Culturally Responsive Care Can Look Like
At Daughters of Both Suns, we believe care should honor the whole person. That includes culture, identity, family, language, faith, history, and the realities of daily life.
Our BridgeCare Therapy Navigation program helps Black and Latina women connect with licensed therapists who offer culturally responsive and trauma-informed care. Depending on availability, referrals may include insurance-based care, sliding-scale options, pro bono therapy, or limited session support.
The goal is not simply to hand someone a list of phone numbers.
The goal is to help people find a next step they can realistically take.
For women searching for mental health resources for Black women or Latina mental health support, culturally aligned care can make a meaningful difference. It can create room to talk honestly about grief, migration, racism, violence, motherhood, chronic stress, family expectations, and the pressure to survive while appearing fine.
You do not have to perform strength in order to deserve support.
You do not have to wait until you are at your breaking point.
We also provide Resource Navigation for individuals and families seeking support with housing, food access, healthcare, reproductive and maternal health, immigration legal assistance, employment resources, autism support, and more. Because mental health is connected to everything else.
It is hard to rest when you are worried about housing.
It is hard to process trauma when your family does not have enough food.
It is hard to focus on healing when you are trying to find care for your child.
This is why our approach is grounded in trauma-informed care for women of color and the families who depend on them. Healing is not separate from stability. Healing is part of stability.
Community Is Part of the Care Plan
Mental health support does not always begin in an office.
Sometimes it begins in a conversation at a community event. Sometimes it begins with seeing someone who looks like you speak openly about therapy. Sometimes it begins with learning that support is available in English and Spanish. Sometimes it begins with a friend saying, “You do not have to handle this alone.”
Daughters of Both Suns creates Healing Circles, workshops, webinars, and community events that make mental health conversations more approachable and less isolating.
Our community education mental health programs focus on awareness, trauma recovery, maternal health, autism advocacy, and overall wellness. These spaces are designed to help people build knowledge and connection without judgment.
That matters because stigma thrives in silence.
Connection interrupts it.
A family-friendly baseball game may not look like traditional mental health programming, but it can help build the relationships that make future support possible. It gives neighbors a chance to meet. It creates an opportunity for families to experience joy together. It reminds us that wellness is not only about managing what is difficult. It is also about making room for what is good.
Joy is not frivolous.
Joy is fuel.
A Night for Women, Families, and Community Supporters
Home Runs for Hope is for the women Daughters of Both Suns serves directly, including Black and Latina women seeking support that feels affirming and culturally grounded.
It is also for families, caregivers, friends, therapists, healthcare professionals, local businesses, educators, advocates, and community supporters who believe that equitable mental health care is everyone’s concern.
You do not have to know the perfect words.
You do not have to understand every part of the work before you show up.
You can start with a ticket.
You can start by bringing your children to a safe, joyful event. You can start by inviting someone who has been isolated. You can start by learning more about Daughters of Both Suns programs or exploring Resource Navigation.
We are building from the ground up. That means creating systems of care that are practical, compassionate, bilingual, and rooted in community. It means recognizing that families deserve more than crisis response. They deserve support before the crisis, during the crisis, and as they rebuild afterward.
We do not break.
We bend.
And together, we create conditions where bending does not have to mean carrying everything alone.
Keep the Fall Connection Going
Home Runs for Hope is one touchpoint in a larger season of healing and community connection.
Looking ahead, Daughters of Both Suns will host the Rooted & Restored Women’s Wellness Retreat on Saturday, October 24, 2026. The retreat is designed to support healing for the whole woman, bringing mind, body, and spirit into the conversation.
Registration is available through Zeffy, and scholarships are available for those who need financial support. Learn more and look for registration details on the Rooted & Restored Women’s Wellness Retreat page.
We will also be watching for the announcement of the Best of the Beach 2026 nonprofit results on September 20. Recognition is meaningful, but the heart of this work is not a title or award. It is the ongoing effort to make support easier to find and safer to receive.
One woman finding care can affect an entire household.
One family receiving resources can become more stable.
One community choosing connection over stigma can change what healing looks like for the next generation.
That is why we keep showing up.
Grab Your Ticket and Join Us
On Saturday, September 5, meet us at Myrtle Beach Pelicans Ballpark for a fun, family-friendly night that funds healing.
For $25 per person, you can enjoy the game while supporting mental health access, autism advocacy, family wellness, resource navigation, and community support services across Horry and Georgetown Counties.
Move at your own pace. Invite who feels right. Come exactly as you are.
There is room for you in this work.
There is room for your family.
And there is room for joy.
Comments