HOPE, Engagement, and COVID-19
Last week, I wrote a brief blog post about a HOPE-informed approach to the restrictions from COVID-19. Since then, I’ve been thinking about one of the building blocks of HOPE:…
Love in the time of Coronavirus: A HOPE-informed guide for parents
This has been quite a week, and we are now facing major disruptions in our own family lives. There is no doubt that the events of this winter and spring…
Parents Are NOT Broken
Written by Corey B. Best, consultant and professional guide, Birth Parent National Network, for the Children's Bureau Express. HOPE is fortunate and grateful to have Corey as a member of…
Positive Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental Health
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…
Health Equity and HOPE
As described in Dina’s recent blog, our team just returned from California. The issue of health equity arose in our discussions; this blog addresses how we think about HOPE and…
HOPE in California
On January 1, 2020, California launched a first of its kind program to combat the ill effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), the ACES Aware Initiatives spearheaded by California Surgeon…
HOPE visits the CDC
Dr. James Mercy, Director of the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), invited…
PCE and Adult Mental Health
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…
Policies for Positive Childhood Experiences
It is now 2020, and I’m tempted to make jokes about having “20/20 vision” for the future. Let’s pass up those jokes, and concentrate a little bit of what we learned…
HOPE Workshop at the Middlesex County DA Office
At the beginning of December, I finished my 2019 HOPE workshops with a visit to the nearby Middlesex County Massachusetts District Attorney’s (DA) office. The room was packed with police,…