HOPE Champion Certification
Implement HOPE in organizations
You are eligible for the advanced HOPE Champion Certification program once you are certified as a Facilitator. By becoming a Champion, you will be able to increase an organization’s and network’s capacity to implement the HOPE framework sustainably and systematically. You will be the on-the-ground HOPE expert leading implementation projects and ensuring the HOPE framework results in actionable change in an organization.
What you will learn
The HOPE Champion program is a combination of self-paced learning via our online HOPE Champion modules and project-based cohort learning. Through the online modules that you will complete prior to your first live session, you will learn about:
- Revising and delivering intake forms in a HOPE-informed way;
- Using HOPE for equity advancement to promote equitable access to the Four Building Blocks;
- Creating an internal culture of HOPE at the organizational level;
- Reviewing policies using the HOPE-Informed Checklist for Decision Making to help craft policies that promote access to the Four Building Blocks of HOPE and focus on strengths;
- Analyzing referral processes including helping an organization determine how their community defines the Four Building Blocks so they can offer culturally relevant resources and referrals;
- Delivering screening and assessment forms in a HOPE-informed way.
In the second part of the HOPE Champion Program, you will join a cohort of other Champions-in-training to discuss what you learned from the online modules, and begin to develop your HOPE-Implementation project. At the end of the twelve week process, Champions will report back on the progress their project has made and produce a HOPE-informed resource that will help continue promote their HOPE implementation.
Benefits of becoming a Champion
HOPE Champions are certified to deliver technical assistance around implementation of the HOPE framework. This may include individual projects or helping an organization through the HOPE-Informed Organizational Certification process. Champions are permitted to set their own rates for this work.
Hear from HOPE Champions
Learning to incorporate HOPE with other existing frameworks like Strengthening Families [was the most helpful aspect of the Champion training]. We [Bayou Lotus Corporation] have become a certified HOPE organization and are integrating HOPE throughout our organization.
Are you ready to become a Champion?
To be eligible for the Champion Certification program, you must have:
- Completed the Train the Facilitator Certification program, and
- Completed at least two Introduction to HOPE workshops
The Champion program consists of two portions. Once you register for a cohort, you will be given access to the Champion online modules. These are self-paced and typically take 2-3 hours to complete.
You will then begin your cohort journey. Each Champion cohort will meet three times over a twelve-week period with each session lasting approximately two hours. At the initial live meeting, there will be time set aside for brainstorming individual projects. Within two weeks of the first session, all participants will submit a project plan for their implementation project. The cohort will meet six weeks after the first session to discuss progress on individual projects, challenges, and lesson learns. The third and final cohort meeting will happen six weeks later and will be an opportunity for all cohort members to present their projects to the group.
The Champion program costs $2,000 per person. Certification also comes with the option of being listed on our website as a Champion for organization looking for local trainers.
One scholarship per Champion cohort will be reserved, please reach out to us for more details.
The Champion Certification does not require a recertification. As Champions, you will still need to maintain your Facilitator Certification each year. This involves using your personalized evaluation link for at least two HOPE trainings per year and receiving satisfactory or above ratings.
Register for the next cohort
Each Champion cohort will consist of 8-16 individuals who will complete the online modules and three interactive, hands-on sessions over the course of 12 weeks.