Promoting positive childhood experiences for pediatric patients and families
The HOPE framework centers on promoting key types of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) we call the Four Building Blocks of HOPE: relationships, environment, engagement, and emotional growth. Research shows that the more PCEs a child has, the more likely they are to grow into healthy, resilient adults.
Medical providers and organizations can incorporate the HOPE framework into their policies, programming, and practices to provide their pediatric patients with more opportunities for PCEs and improve their overall experience with inpatient care. Whether the provider is meeting with a child or family regularly or only for a few minutes, finding moments to practice the HOPE framework can have a lasting positive impact on the patient.
Recently, the HOPE National Resource Center created the HOPE for Healthcare Toolkit, a collection of resources for healthcare providers. From tangible practices with adolescents to recording notes, these resources support implementation of the HOPE framework through the visit and beyond. By engaging in conversations and practices centered on exploring and uplifting the Four Building Blocks of HOPE, children and youth feeling supported, and parents can leave feeling empowered.
Resources
These resources help medical professionals bring the HOPE framework to their practice and promote PCEs for the child and family who come through their office.
HOPE in Every Electronic Medical Record Note
This resource provides a strengths-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) documentation checklist for positive, patient-centered care. By intentionally documenting strengths, moments of joy, and protective factors, we strive to capture a more complete story of health and create a shared, hopeful language in the medical record.
HOPEful Care for Adolescents
This resource provides tips for healthcare providers who work with adolescents. This resource shares tips on relationship building, establishing privacy, engaging youth in their care plans, and creating open conversations for emotional growth. Use these tips to enhance your practice with adolescents, helping them grow into resilient, healthy adults.
HOPEful Case Reviews with TRIADS
The Four Building Blocks of HOPE and the TRIADS model can be used to promote strengths during case reviews. TRIADS stands for Trauma and Resilience-informed Inquiry for Adversity, Distress and Strengths. These tools allow for a more holistic process and reframe providers’ responses to center the HOPE framework. As you meet with children and families, use this worksheet as a guide to ask questions to understand their full experience.
HOPEful Well-Child Visits
We curated this packet for providers to use in tandem with the Bright Futures Guidelines during Well Child Visits (WCV). This packet shares practices for visits from prenatal to 21-year-olds. Each age range shares questions that can be asked, covering each of the Four Building Blocks of HOPE.
Four Building Blocks Worksheet for Pediatric Clinics
Learn how your patients are practicing the Four Building Blocks of HOPE through this interactive worksheet. Patients can choose to write or draw their experiences with each of the Four Building Blocks. This can be given out in the waiting room while families wait to be called in for their appointment. The families’ visit starts on a positive note and helps practitioners learn more about their patients by going over this worksheet together.
This resource was created in collaboration with the Tufts Medicine Pediatric Primary Care – Boston.
Spread positive childhood experiences by becoming more HOPE-Informed
These resources are a guide to incorporating HOPE-Informed practices with children, adolescents, and families in the healthcare industry. This practice can go deeper with our training and certification programs.
Schedule a led training with a HOPE Facilitator or a member of the HOPE National Resource Center, or learn at your own pace through the HOPE Online Course Hub.
If you are looking for something more hands-on, become a HOPE certified Facilitator or Champion, bringing the HOPE framework to your community or organization.
