Increasing positive childhood experiences from family and community feedback
Environmental justice is a key movement to increasing access to positive childhood experiences through the Environment Building Block of HOPE.
New resource: Four Building Blocks of HOPE for caregivers who have been incarcerated
This fact sheet offers practical strategies on how to access the Four Building Blocks of HOPE and PCEs for families impacted by incarceration.
2024 HOPE Summit and the Week of HOPE starts next week!
We are less than a week away from the Fourth Annual HOPE Summit – The HOPE Transformation and the Week of HOPE!
How the HOPE framework differs from strength-based and trauma-informed care approaches
HOPE is an impactful framework that can be used on its own and alongside other models like strength-based and trauma-informed care approaches.
The need to support children through parent- and caregiver-focused policies
Behind every child and community that is strong and flourishing, are parents whose love and devotion and unceasing work make this all possible.
Black History Month and HOPE as an anti-racist Framework
The HOPE framework encourages professionals to seek out strengths and note the resiliency in families who are often faced with racism.
Interview: Using the HOPE framework to create concrete organizational improvements
Aimee Zeitz-Gruber discusses the importance of incorporating positive childhood experiences into multiple areas of YMCA San Diego.
“They never saw a child”: Ruby Bridges and the Adultification of Black Girls
To this day, young Black girls are perceived to be less needing of love and leniency and less innocent than their peers. They are pushed toward adulthood long before their childhood years have begun to end.
2024 Week of HOPE Schedule
During the Week of HOPE, we host events and share new resources that honor and promote the widespread use of positive childhood experiences.
Help us spread positive childhood experiences in the New Year
Over the last year the HOPE National Resource Center has worked hard to create new programs and update existing ones.