By Amanda Winn, 9/01/21, positiveexperience.org/blog
Pediatrician, Dr. Gretchen Pianka, had already created Resilience University when she first heard about HOPE. When Dr. Pianka met with Drs. Sege and Burstein, she realized that her vision to help foster family resilience fit perfectly within the HOPE Framework. At that time, her program focused primarily on promoting emotional growth and fostering the parent-child attachment to help build resilience in children. By doing Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycles with families around the challenging emotional and relational issues, she was able to use a vetted quality improvement strategy to help families access more positive childhood experiences.
As Dr. Pianka started working with families on these cycles, she noticed that one of the biggest factors impacting parents’ ability to hold space for relational health and growth with their children was the parents’ stress level. Sometimes, relational and emotional issues were driving this stress. Things were so volatile and difficult that parents felt trapped at home and unable to connect with their community even if they knew that would be beneficial for the family’s wellbeing.
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