Join us for the 2025 HOPE Summit
This year’s Fifth Annual HOPE Summit – Shaping the Future: A Framework for Every Sector on June 3-4, 2025, is designed to equip professionals like you with the tools, knowledge, and inspiration they need to drive positive change in their organizations and communities. The HOPE Summit is for all who work in a child- and family-serving sector, from medical practices to community organizations, educators, and administrative staff. If you are part of the lives of children and families, the HOPE framework is for you!
What to expect at the Summit
Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Director of the HOPE National Resource Center, and Junlei Li, PhD, Faculty Co-Chair of Human Development and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education will join as the two keynote speakers. In addition, Summit attendees will participate in three workshop sessions, a panel session, and opportunities for networking with other attendees.
New to this year’s Summit are five sector-specific tracks that attendees can follow throughout the three workshop sessions:
- Healthcare
- Education
- Child welfare
- Substance misuse prevention
- The HOPE impact
Each track features experts who practice the HOPE framework and have implemented changes that prioritize positive childhood experiences (PCEs) in their work. Whether you choose to follow one track throughout the Summit or mix-and-match your workshop experience across multiple tracks, these sessions will cover hands-on implementation practices, lessons learned, and the difference the power of the positive can make for children, families, and organizations.
Learn more about the new tracks offered at this year’s HOPE Summit
Healthcare
Through these three workshops, you will learn how the HOPE framework has been implemented on the organizational level in two pediatric care settings and a multidisciplinary program supporting young children with complex developmental and behavioral health needs and their families. Presenters will share their experiences with staff and patients, the process of policy changes, and the cost of making such changes. Learn how they used the Four Building Blocks of HOPE, key types of PCEs, to guide transformative, positive change.
Education
Learn how the HOPE framework is practiced in and outside the classroom to improve experiences for both students and educators. Presenters will share how they utilized the promotion of PCEs to help students thrive and become healthy adults. This track shares insights from the classroom, throughout childcare, in a school district, including collaborating with community partners.
Child welfare
These workshops will share the many ways to integrate the HOPE framework into a child welfare department, foster care system, and resource allocation centers for children and families. The presenters will share why strength-based assessments and practices are more beneficial than deficit-only practices and share how they partnered with other departments, organizations, and the community to successfully increase access to PCEs.
Substance misuse prevention
Real-world examples will be shared of how organizations are using the HOPE framework to prevent substance misuse among youth. These workshops will be interactive and provide many opportunities for discussion and learning from one another. Presenters will share how they utilize PCEs in their prevention work and the differences they have seen when integrating the positive into their work with partners, youth, and the community.
HOPE Impact
Make a difference with HOPE. This track will share ways to use policy, research, and data to share the impact of HOPE and the prioritization of PCEs. Learn how HOPE makes a difference through newly gathered data from recent evaluation work, how legislative advocacy drives policy change and promotes PCEs, and how research informs our practice. Presenters will share what they have learned through hands-on application, data collection, and research.
