This is a sector-specific resource about increasing access to the 4 Building Blocks that can be used by educators. Research has shown that Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) can help protect against the poor health outcomes associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences…
This simple checklist will walk you through assessing if the decision you are making, policy you are creating, or tool you are considering is HOPE-informed. As you consider moving forward, ask yourself if your decision, policy, or tool accomplishes the…
These videos present two intake sessions, one that is intentionally dramatized and not informed by HOPE (we know that all of our home visiting friends are incredibly empathetic) and another that utilizes the HOPE framework. HOPE Research Assistant Loren McCullough…
Spreading HOPE describes HOPE’s reason for being, the issues that drive our work, and how we’re solving them via strategies for practice transformation. Development of Spreading HOPE was led by Health+ Studio (a California-based social impact strategy design studio). They…
Dr. Baraka Floyd, HOPE collaborator, co-presenter, and Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine created a similar series of videos. Dr. Floyd demonstrates encounters with a mock patient, to discuss a Post-Partum Depression screen, with and without a HOPE-informed…
Here we present three videos — one showing a traditional approach to a first encounter between a physician and patient, the second showing a HOPE-informed approach to the same encounter, and a third with the actress who played the part…
This article by PBS discusses the high levels of stress during the Covid-19 pandemic and the concern that child abuse may be on the rise. Dr. Sege offers ways to deal with stress as it arises to help lessen the…
This handout walks you through a 2019 publication by Dr. Christina Bethell and Dr. Robert Sege about the relationship between adverse/positive childhood experiences and adult mental health, providing an empirical foundation for the language of HOPE.
In this video, Dr. Sege presents the results of his study published in September, 2019 about the negative lifelong health effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the protective/buffering lifelong effects of Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs).