Implementing the HOPE Framework in an Existing Model | Interview with Lynn Kemp, PhD [positiveexperience.org/blog]

By Laura Gallant, 11/13/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/

Earlier this fall, we had the pleasure of meeting with Lynn Kemp, PhD, as she stopped at the HOPE National Resource Center at Tufts Medical School. She began her career as a maternal-child nurse, and is now the Distinguished Professor in Nursing at Western Sydney University (WSU), and has successfully developed the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) program at the Transforming early Education And Child Health Research Centre (TeEACH) in WSU. MECSH is an evidence-based program for families who are at risk for poor maternal and child health and development outcomes that is now implemented in Australia, the UK, USA, and South Korea. In September of 2022, WSU and TeEACH became an affiliate of the HOPE National Resource Center. The interview below shares Dr. Kemp’s experiences with integrating the HOPE framework and the Four Building Blocks of HOPE into the MECSH program. She also shares her experience promoting and advocating for the wider shift to the positive throughout her work.

[Click here to read the full interview.]