Why positive childhood experiences are important for all children and families
Positive childhood experiences are protective experiences that help heal the brain from trauma and promote healthy mental health in adulthood.
Youth engaging in advocacy can make a difference
When youth engage in advocacy efforts, they learn that their voice matters, and that they can make a difference.
How can we heal from Adverse Childhood Experiences?
Developing a practice that incorporates positive childhood experiences (PCEs) can lessen the lifelong effects of harmful experiences and allows the brain to heal from trauma.
Seasonal opportunities to practice positive childhood experiences during the holidays – New resource
Through this seasonal resource, there are big and small moments to practice positive childhood experiences (PCEs) during the holidays.
HOPE Innovation Network and the Importance of Policy
The HOPE NRC works directly with organizations to make HOPE-informed changes to their internal policies.
Interview with National Advisory Board Member Elliott Hinkle
Read our interview with Elliott Hinkle, member of the HOPE National Advisory Board and the HOPE Family and Community Experts Council. “HOPE is like, when someone brings you a problem and you want them to also bring a solution. How are we thinking differently about the work and moving beyond what is bad and what is hard to how we are going to make any change here. It has given me, funnily enough, hope in the work.”
Celebrating Juneteenth and Father’s Day with HOPE
Sunday, June 19th is a day of celebrating both freedom and fathers, and we are taking the opportunity to acknowledge the significance of Black fathers specifically by talking to John Verdejo, member of the FACEs (Family and Community Experts) of HOPE Advisory Council.
HOPE adopts equity glossary a week ahead of Juneteenth
The HOPE National Resource Center is adopting the Key equity terms and concepts: A glossary for shared understanding, from the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
There’s no mystery to what happened in Uvalde; there were many opportunities to prevent it
Jane Stevens, Founder and Publisher at PACEs Connections, wrote the blog below discussing the ways the better access to PCEs could have prevented the Uvalde school shooting.
Elevating HOPE in the Positives
This blog shares an example of a strengths-based way to apply the HOPE framework to a common life event—birthdays.