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By HOPE Team, 8/4/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ This summer, four interns from Boston public high schools have joined the HOPE National Resource Center team! This group of interns is working on projects from resource development, research, evaluation and many more areas of HOPE. We are excited to have them working with us this summer, sharing their insights and unique perspectives. Get to know the HOPE summer interns: [ Click here to read the full blog. ]

August is Family Fun Month, and the HOPE National Resource Center is all about families creating positive childhood experiences (PCEs) by having fun together! Throughout the month, there are several days to remember that promote PCEs and the Four Building Blocks of HOPE: Exercise with your Child Week – Starting August 7 th : There are so many ways to exercise or get moving with your children. People of different mobility levels can share in a day of intentional, and fun, exercise; from...

By Laura Gallant, 7/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Last week, the HOPE National Resource Center held our annual retreat. Team members flew in from across the country to meet in person in Boston. This was a great opportunity to network and meet with people we partner with every day in a virtual setting. We also used this time to talk about the future direction of HOPE. Over the past year, HOPE leaders have been looking at our organizational structure closely and...

July marks the end of the second HOPE Innovation Network (HIN) cohort. The HIN review committee selected the twelve participating organizations through a competitive application process last fall. The final group included direct service providers, K-12 schools, and community coalitions. Over the past 6 months, the organizations attended trainings and joined activities about how to make their intake processes HOPE-informed. Now, these organizations have implementation plans specifically...

Laura Gallant, 7/14/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) has been collaborating with Nemours Children’s Health and Curricula Concepts (Arkansas) on the Better Together project. Caliste Chong, Manager of Practice and Prevention at Nemours has worked closely with the HOPE NRC on this project and shares: This work inspired the HOPE team to create a whiteboard video sharing how healthy eating and physical activity can support access to the...

By MyDzung Chu, 7/7/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Meet MyDzung Chu, our newest faculty member at the Center for Community Engaged Medicine, working alongside the HOPE team! She shares how she first heard about HOPE and the projects she will be working on with the team. Can you tell us about your role at Tufts Medical Center? Hi everyone. I am an environmental and occupational epidemiologist. I am also a first-generation Vietnamese-American woman and a native of...

The HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) will release a new online training, HOPE and Anti-racism Approaches. In this free course, Dr. Sege and Dr. Stephens share specific anti-racism approaches that are essential to implementing HOPE in any setting. The four lessons offer video lectures, interactive quizzes, and access to a variety of resources. [ Click here to read the full blog .]

By Allison Stephens and Bob Sege, 6/22/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Many people, especially those who work in the child welfare system, expected a dramatic increase in child abuse when COVID-19 hit. After all, everything was disrupted, children and their parents were out of school and work, and people were physically isolated from each other. As far as we can tell, there was not a child abuse epidemic. Perhaps the emergency supports offered during the pandemic worked. If...

By Allison Stephens, 6/17/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Fathers are an important part of family life and contribute significantly to child development. This Father’s Day, the HOPE National Resource Center is celebrating the impact that fathers can have on access to positive childhood experiences, even though fathers often go unrecognized. The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse’s #Dadication campaign lets us hear directly from fathers about their relationships...

By John Verdejo, 6/16/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Sunday, June 19 th is a day of celebrating both freedom and fathers. In part, Juneteenth honors Black children and families, including fathers, who were separated from each other during Slavery. The freedom to have a family and to raise children is fundamental to HOPE. Although racism still affects the ability for Black families to access the Four Building Blocks equitably, the team at the HOPE National Resource Center...

By Allison Stephens, 6/9/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Happy Pride Month! The HOPE National Resource Center is joining the national celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride. HOPE is about meeting the needs of all children and families , including those that identify as LGBTQ+. While we celebrate, we also acknowledge that children and families in the LGBTQ+ community can experience both bias and racism. These Adverse Community Experiences can make it harder for LGBTQ+ families to enjoy...

By Bev Van den Bossche, 6/2/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Often when we think of hope, we think about it as a response to hardships or challenges that either we are facing or that we are seeing in the world around us. For example, we hope that no one got hurt in the car accident that we saw on the way to work. We hope that we do well on our final exams. We hope that war and hunger will end in our lifetime. As a HOPE Trained Facilitator , I look at hope from multiple...