“For me, the [Four] Building Blocks [of HOPE] answers this question: How do you build alignment in an organization? …Sometimes a mission is just words on paper. And so how do you start to operationalize that?” -Natasha Paddock, HOPE Facilitator and CEO of C.O.P.E. Family Support Center
Spreading HOPE from organizational changes to how we support parents and children
When Natasha Paddock, CEO of the nonprofit C.O.P.E. Family Support Center, became a HOPE Champion, she knew she wanted to incorporate the HOPE framework into her organization. C.O.P.E. stands for counseling, options and parent education. To her, focusing on relationships, healthy environments, and all of the Four Building Blocks of HOPE, or key types of positive childhood experiences (PCEs), made sense to start doing within the organization, knowing that it would spread to the way staff support parents, and ultimately, the way parents support children.