Ideas and resources for individuals, organizations, and communities moving along a hope-informed pathway in order to:

• Prevent and mitigate adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
• Promote resilience and safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
• Promote equity and racial justice.
• Prevent substance abuse and promote mental health.

… so that all children, youth, families and communities have equal opportunity for educational success, economic stability, health, and well-being.

Hope
Foundation for Healthy Generations, Science of Hope, 2016 Conference Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/channe...DizEIRptjV49i1rgUdow
- Includes keynote presentations:

• Age of Opportunity: Why Adolescence is a Time of Vulnerability and Hope, Laurence Steinberg, PhD
• Hope & Healing, Shawn Ginwright, PhD
• Hope is a Social Gift, Chan Hellman, PhD

Thurston Thrives – Hope Resources Available Online:
http://thurstonthrives.org/hop...es-available-online/

Chan Hellman, PhD, University of Oklahoma
- Hope = Goal + Willpower (agency) + Way-power (pathways)
- Hope Research – The Parent Child Center of Tulsa
http://www.parentchildcenter.org/hope-research/

Shane Lopez, PhD – Gallup, Clifton Strengths Institute
- Hope is a strategy, 2013 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXBEoTepQHQ (22:01)
- Making hope happen, 2013 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3ZvG-Z0vg (13:45)
-Making hope happen: Create the future you want for yourself and others, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2w0PMqsqxk  (1:19:01)

Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope, KPJR Films (trailer 2:10)
http://kpjrfilms.co/resilience/

Happiness and Well-Being
Authentic Happiness, University of Pennsylvania - https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/

Introducing a New Theory of Well-Being (PERMA) https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/learn

• Positive emotions
• Engagement
• Positive Relationships
• Meaning
• Accomplishment

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:  Flow, the secret of happiness (18:59) – TED Talk
www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness (21:20) – TED Talk
www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

 Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania (Martin Seligman) http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/
- Includes links to video lectures by leading scholars (Readings and Videos)
http://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/learn...res-leading-scholars
- Including:  Marin Seligman (Positive Psychology, Flourish), Angela Duckworth (Grit), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Flow), Shane Lopez (Hope), Lawrence Steinberg (Adolescence)
- Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology (23:45) – TED Talk
www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psychology.html

Character Strengths
Values in Action (VIA) Character Strengths -- www.viacharacter.org
Includes link to take the free VIA Survey online.

Grit and Self-Control (self-regulation, agency, willpower)
How do we build grit and self-control? Authentic Happiness, University of Pennsylvania
https://www.authentichappiness...upenn.edu/learn/grit

Angela Duckworth, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania
https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/people/angela-duckworth         
-Links to Angela Duckworth TED Talk: The Key to Success? Grit,  2013 (6:09)
- “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future….”