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By Laura Gallant, 3/7/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Today Monday, March 7, is the first day of the Week of HOPE. This week is intended to spread awareness of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences TM and help people learn about the difference that positive childhood experiences can make for children, families, and those who serve them. We are excited to be celebrating the Week of HOPE across the country. We are especially grateful to Vicky Roper, director of...

By The HOPE Team, 3/2/2022, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Robyn McGough, MSW, joins HOPE’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Amanda Winn, for the fourth vlog in our new series, HOPE Block by Block. This series highlights the work of Black practitioners, scholars, researchers, and community activists during the month of February. In this fourth episode, Robyn will address the HOPE building block of social and civic engagement. The engagement building block is...

By Laura Gallant, 3/1/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The Second-Annual HOPE Summit is one week away! Register now and log into the conference site. Below is information on how to enroll in the workshops of your choice , network with other attendees, and much more. If the cost of the conference impacts your ability to attend, please email HOPE@tuftsmedicalcenter.org to learn more about our scholarship opportunities. How to use the Conference Site: Logging in – Once you...

By Laura Gallant, 2/23/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ During the week of the HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE, we will be hosting our first Week of HOPE. Register today for the HOPE Summit and learn more about what the HOPE National Resource Center will be offering throughout the week of March 7 – 11. Below are the themes for each day and previews of new resources, events, and episodes of a limited release podcast, A HOPEful Podcast. We will share more each day during the Week...

By The HOPE Team, 2/22/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Dr. Kamilah B. Legette , joins HOPE’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Amanda Winn, for the third vlog in our new series, HOPE Block by Block. This series highlights the work of Black practitioners, scholars, researchers, and community activists during the month of February. In this third episode, Dr. Legette will address the HOPE building block of relationships. The relationship building block is about...

by Laura Gallant, 2/17/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is thrilled to offer continuing education credits for the HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE. Physicians, nurses, social workers and psychologists will be able to get up to 1.5 hours of continuing education credit. Register here to get your continuing education credits at the HOPE Summit! Please note that these credits only apply to Dr. Wendy Ellis’s Keynote, and not the afternoon workshops. We...

By The HOPE Team, 2/15/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Dr. Wendy Ellis , joins HOPE’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Amanda Winn, for the second vlog in our new series, HOPE Block by Block. This series highlights the work of Black practitioners, scholars, researchers, and community activists during the month of February. In this second episode, Dr. Ellis will address the HOPE building block of environment. The environment building block is about children...

By The HOPE Team, 2/9/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The American Academy of Pediatrics released two new snapshots in the Family Snapshots: Life during the Pandemic series. These reports share what parents found the most helpful or most challenging in raising their children throughout lockdown and as the pandemic progressed. In the Words of Parents Part 1: Work and Family Finances and In the Words of Parents Part 2: Remote Education and Home life . [ Click here to read more. ]

By The HOPE Team, 2/8/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Register for the 2022 HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE before February 11 th for our early bird discount! Growing HOPE is a one-day virtual conference that will be interactive and give you clear ways to add the HOPE Framework into your day to day work and organization. We will be offering a wide variety of workshops during the afternoon, and you can attend three of them. The workshops will cover HOPE in direct services,...

By Dr. Stephanie Irby Coard, 2/1/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Dr. Stephanie Irby Coard, joins HOPE’s Director of Training and Technical Assistance, Amanda Winn, for the first vlog in our new series, HOPE Block by Block. We are kicking off our series by highlighting the impactful work of Black practitioners, scholars, researchers, and community activists during the month of February. In this first episode, Dr. Coard will address the building block of emotional growth,...

By Dina Burstein, 1/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is thrilled to announce we have been awarded a grant from the American Public Health Association (APHA). We will collaborate with the RAND Corporation to conduct scoping reviews of the literature relating to childhood exposure to both adverse and positive experiences. This six-month project will produce a final report that summarizes the research about the harmful effects of adverse...

By Laura Gallant, 1/19/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Registration is now open for the 2022 HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE! Join us on March 8th for our one-day Virtual Summit. This is an opportunity to learn about the power of Positive Childhood Experiences, the HOPE Framework and how to incorporate HOPE into your work and organization. The HOPE framework offers a new approach that brings identifying, celebrating, and promoting positive experiences to the forefront of care. [...