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…
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,…
HOPE in the Boston Globe (Oct. 2019)
Kay Lazar of the Boston Globe wrote this article highlighting HOPE research, and how, just as it is important to monitor for adverse childhood events (ACEs) and toxic relationships, it…
Positive Childhood Experience and Adult Mental and Relational Health in a Statewide Sample
Positive childhood experiences protect adult mental health Are positive childhood experiences (PCEs) associated with adult depression and/or poor mental health? In 2015, HOPE Director Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Christina Bethell,…