HOPE - Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences transforms our thinking about children and their development. We now know, through advances in neurobiology and epidemiology, that optimal development grows from four types of experiences that we call the building blocks of HOPE: safe nurturing Relationships, safe and equitable Environments in which to live, learn and play, Engagement with family and community to develop a sense of mattering, and opportunities for Emotional Growth. During this workshop, we will review the HOPE framework and the science behind it, high level ideas around implementation of the framework, and the formal and informal resources available in your community to promote access to the building blocks of HOPE. Through this presentation participants will...
Understand the research behind Positive Childhood Experiences
Practice using Type 2 thinking to see strengths first
Review the Four Building Blocks of HOPE and how they promote health and wellbeing
Our Presenter:
Eliza Loren Purdue is the Training and Technical Assistance Project Manager at the HOPE National Resource Center located in the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine at Tufts Medicine. She has dedicated her professional career to disseminating the HOPE framework and understanding how positive childhood experiences (PCEs) support and benefit families and communities. Eliza conducts trainings for organizations, facilitators, stakeholders, and large public audiences to spread the HOPE framework across the country and the world.
Before joining HOPE, she worked on several projects in the greater Boston area studying how experiences shape brain development and future health outcomes that are associated with childhood experiences.
Eliza currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband and overly friendly dog.
