We train our workforce and community on trauma-informed principles and the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences. We ground our work with families in the Protective Factors framework. We build our programs around creating connection and dialogue between sectors and relationship within community. We have been intentional in ensuring a peripheral lens that encompasses both sides of the resiliency scale, risk and protective factors. What the acronym of HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences) does is remind us how important language is. Perception is influenced by language, which then creates a shift in action. Promoting positive experiences to support healthy outcomes may have been at the root of our practice, but if we wish to shift the message, we can't have ACEs without HOPE.
For more information on HOPE, visit https://positiveexperience.org/.
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