Learn the right next step for your journey with the HOPE framework
The HOPE framework centers on promoting the key types of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) to help everyone – parents and caregivers, professionals, organizations, and agencies – promote health and well-being for children and families. We group these key PCEs as the Four Building Blocks of HOPE: relationships, environment, engagement, and emotional growth.
The HOPE framework helps create a path to focusing on the positive and shifting the focus away from deficit-only practices. There are many possibilities when starting to implement the HOPE framework into your work. Understandably, it can be difficult to know where to start promoting PCEs.
After we facilitate trainings or talk with organizations, a common question we hear is, “What next?” The HOPE National Resource Center offers many different trainings, and there are different paths to take. From individuals practicing the framework to organizations implementing large-scale changes, we have the support for you.
Which path through the HOPE framework is right for you?
Everyone new to the HOPE framework should start with the Introduction to HOPE training. Through this training, you learn the basics of the HOPE framework and why PCEs are impactful for children, youth, and families. Schedule a training for your staff, attend one of our quarterly public live trainings, or take our self-paced online course.
Enhancing individual and everyday practices
Individuals can enhance their practice of the HOPE framework in their day-to-day work with children and families with sector specific trainings and courses.
- The HOPE online course hub: Our online course hub offers a growing list of courses. From general introductory courses to sector- and population-specific topics, the free, self-paced courses will help you use the HOPE framework to grow your work with PCEs. These courses can also be taken for continuing education credits.
- Resource library: Our resource library houses free, downloadable resources on how to practice the HOPE framework. From sector-specific toolkits to handouts for children to fill in, these resources can help build a culture of the HOPE framework wherever you work.
Train and help others implement the HOPE framework
Training and offering technical assistance on the HOPE framework is a great way to conduct large-scale changes to organizations and communities.
- HOPE Facilitator Certification: HOPE Facilitators are certified to deliver the Introduction to HOPE workshop. Trainers are able to present this workshop and tailor it to be more specific for their organization or community. This can be helpful if you are looking to train staff members, community partners, or families and community members on the HOPE framework as part of an implementation effort.
- HOPE Champion Certification: This advance certification is available for HOPE Facilitators. Champions are trained to provide technical assistance to organizations and communities to align practices and policies with the HOPE framework. This certification allows you to be an on-the-ground HOPE expert, leading implementation projects and ensuring the HOPE framework results in actionable change in an organization. You can also be the point person to help organizations go through the HOPE Organizational Certification program.
Organizational Implementation
Those who wish to implement the HOPE framework into their organization or community can do so on several levels through specific training or a tailored certification program.
- Full-day or half-day trainings – The half and full-day workshops can be created to meet the needs of a group that is already familiar with the HOPE framework. The training will consist of focused skill-building exercises and small group work. Topics can range from: Using HOPE to Promote Equitable Access to the Building Blocks, Creating an Internal Culture of HOPE, HOPE for Policy Review, HOPE for Challenging Interactions, and more.
- HOPE-Informed Organizational Certification – Organizations that go through this certification process spend, on average, a year working with a HOPE Champion to implement the HOPE framework throughout the organization. With guidance from members of the HOPE National Resource Center and a HOPE Champion, organizations can create impactful change for the children and families they serve through changes to practices, programming, physical and virtual environments, and policies. Organizations also work to implement an internal culture of HOPE to decrease burnout and increase staff retention.
Let us know
Contact us if you want to learn more about what resources and training the HOPE National Resource Center has to offer and what ways you can expand your practice of the HOPE framework.
