By Laura Gallant, 5/11/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/
May is Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and the HOPE framework is one of many ways to amplify the importance of lifelong mental health. The HOPE National Resource Center continues to share the HOPE framework around the country and globe to promote positive childhood experiences, which lead to improved mental health for all children. The HOPE framework works to identify family strengths and sources of positive experiences. HOPE promotes a shift in services and care from focusing on the negative aspects of a child’s life to exploring what is going well and seeing the child and their family for all of their experiences, not just their adversities. Recently, we learned from a study done in Australia, “Measuring Positive Childhood Experiences: Testing the Structural and Predictive Validity of the Health Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) Framework” that PCEs in early childhood promote positive mental health in older youth.
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