Bringing HOPE to Medical Education Supported by an Innovations in Education Intramural Grant from the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM), the HOPE team will collaborate with a community-based organization (CBO) as well as a leader from the local Asian…
Uniform Definitions and Measures for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and Childhood Protective Factors This project is a collaboration between HOPE and the RAND Corporation. Supported by the CDC and the American Public Health Association (APHA), the goals are to conduct…
Help Me Grow – Goal Concordant Care Help Me Grow, an organization made up of affiliates throughout the nation, is built on a system model that emphasizes the importance of identifying and networking available community resources to optimize early childhood…
Child Physical Abuse Did Not Increase During the Pandemic HOPE suggests that providers identify, celebrate, and promote positive childhood experiences. In this paper, published in the American Medical Association’s journal, JAMA Pediatrics, Bob Sege and Allison Stephens do just that.…
Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Data to Action In collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, HOPE is engaged in a CDC supported projects aimed at preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and promoting positive childhood experiences (PCEs). The project is…
Measuring the Impact of Violence against Children and Women during a Pandemic – Family Snapshot Survey Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HOPE is working with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Prevent Child Abuse…
Positive childhood experiences predict less psychopathology and stress in pregnant women with childhood adversity: A pilot study of the benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs) scale This pilot study examined the usefulness of the BCE scale, a new instrument designed to assess…
Modifiable Resilience Factors to Childhood Adversity for Clinical Pediatric Practice This article describes 5 modifiable resilience factors to improve children’s long- and short-term health: fostering positive appraisal styles in children and bolstering executive function improving parenting supporting maternal mental health…
Essentials for Childhood: Promoting Healthy Outcomes From Positive Experiences In January 2014, the Centers for Disease Control held a kickoff meeting to begin implementation of Essentials for Childhood: Steps to Creating Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships in the state of Georgia. Essentials is a strategy…