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Casey Gwinn has invested his career in helping victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children. He is the former elected City Attorney of San Diego. He is a passionate advocate for children growing up with with physical and sexual child abuse and children impacted by domestic violence. He began his career as a prosecutor and now runs a national domestic violence and sexual assault prevention organization called Alliance for HOPE International (www.allianceforhope.com). He is the visionary behind the rapidly developing Family Justice Center movement (www.familyjusticecenter.com) that seeks to put all the services for victims of violence and abuse under one roof (police, prosecutors, advocates, therapists, chaplains, doctors, nurses, and many others) in local communities across the country and around the world. Casey is the founder of the first camp in America focused on children exposed to domestic violence -- Camp HOPE America (www.camphopeamerica.com). Casey is a widely sought after speaker and trainer on issues related to family violence and travels extensively across the United States and around the world. He is also a dad, husband, and grandpa.

Casey has authored or co-authored ten books and hundreds of articles and media commentaries. He has been profiled on ABC Nightly News, The Early Show on CBS, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. The proceeds of all his books have gone to benefit adult and child victims of trauma, violence, and abuse. Casey has not accepted any of the royalties from any of his books, instead donating them to help bring hope and healing to survivors.

Casey Gwinn received the distinguished Ronald Wilson Reagan Public Policy Award from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime in 2018 for his visionary leadership of the rapidly developing Family Justice Center movement and Camp HOPE America.

Casey loves riding Harley Davidson motorcycles, playing with his granddaughters Kayden and Claire and his grandson Evan. He loves rafting on the Klamath River with the amazing children of Camp HOPE America -- California. His own journey through abuse and the impact of childhood trauma helps Casey connect with audiences across America, his authentic sharing of his faith draws others to his vision, and his passion for changing the endings for trauma exposed children will inspire you to become a cheerleader for children in your life and children in your community.

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Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life

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Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life [Gwinn J.D., Casey, Hellman Ph.D, Chan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hope Rising: How the Science of HOPE Can Change Your Life

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Reading Guide for Hope Rising Book Study

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Reading Guide for Hope Rising Book Study

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Why do some people lead positive, hope-filled lives, while others wallow in pessimism? In The Psychology of Hope , a professor of psychology reveals the specific character traits that produce highly hopeful individuals. He offers a test to measure one's level of optimism and gives specific advice on how to become a more hopeful person.

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Psychology of Hope: You Can Get Here from There

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Psychology of Hope: You Can Get Here from There [Snyder, C.R. R.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Psychology of Hope: You Can Get Here from There

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In this practical guide to the anatomy of hope and how to harness its incredible power in your own life, a leading psychologist "shines a light on one of the most powerful, and most misunderstood, emotional forces in our lives" (Daniel Pink, author of Drive ). The How of Happiness ), reveals that hope is not just an emotion but an essential life tool. Hope is a leading indicator of success in relationships, academics, career, and business, and with you can measure your level of hope and learn how to increase, use, and share it. In addition, Lopez shares the uplifting stories of real people who have created hope in their own lives and communities, from a CEO who befriended a curious nine-year-old to a college student who is thriving after two heart transplants.

Some people manage to bounce back quickly from setbacks, to lead happy, healthy, productive lives, no matter their circumstances. These people have found a way to make good things happen even when luck isn't on their side. The secret ingredient they use to transform their lives, it turns out, is hope.

Using discoveries from the largest study of hopeful people ever conducted, Shane J. Lopez, PhD, "the world's preeminent expert on hope" (Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of Making Hope Happen, Publishers Weekly ),

Praised as "thoughtful and pragmatic" ( Making Hope Happen is for anyone seeking a better future-for themselves, for their business, or for the world. The message is clear: Hope is a choice. Hope can be learned. Hope is contagious. Hope can change your life.

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Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others

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Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others [Lopez, Shane J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others

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Administering the Hope Scale: Community Toolkit

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Administering the Hope Scale: Community Toolkit

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A tool for recording Hope Scale scores

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Responding to ACEs: The Science of Hope as a Framework for Action

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Responding to ACEs: The Science of Hope as a Framework for Action

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Hoping for a Better Tomorrow: Do Hope and Optimism Serve as Protective Factors Against Discrimination in Latinx Immigrants?

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Hoping for a Better Tomorrow: Do Hope and Optimism Serve as Protective Factors Against Discrimination in Latinx Immigrants?

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The Impact of Hope on Employee Burnout, Commitment and Job Satisfaction

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The Impact of Hope on Employee Burnout, Commitment and Job Satisfaction

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Exploring the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Hope

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Exploring the Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Hope

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Student Hope, Engagement as Important as Graduation Rates

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Student Hope, Engagement as Important as Graduation Rates

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6 Ways to Cultivate Hope When You Don't Have Any

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6 Ways to Cultivate Hope When You Don't Have Any

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There's a sense, once a whisper, that's growing louder every day. Glaciers are melting; children are being slaughtered; hatred runs rampant. Sometimes it feels like the world's approaching a nadir. Or like you are.

The antidote to any despair might be hope, experts say. It's one of the most powerful-and essential-human mindsets, and possible to achieve even when it feels out of reach. "Hope is a way of thinking," says Chan Hellman, a psychologist who's the founding director of the Hope Research Center at the University of Oklahoma. "We know it can be taught; we know it can be nurtured. It's not something you either have or don't have."

Many people, he notes, don't fully understand what hope is-and what it isn't. Being hopeful doesn't mean engaging in wishful thinking or blind optimism. Rather, it's "the belief or the expectation that the future can be better, and that more importantly, we have the capacity to pursue that future," Hellman says. The opposite of hope, therefore, is not pessimism, but rather apathy, with its loss of motivation. And while wishing is passive, hope is about taking action.

Being hopeful is associated with a wide array of health and life benefits. "Our capacity for hope is one of the strongest predictors of well-being," Hellman says. Research suggests, for example, that people with more hope throughout their lives have fewer chronic health problems; are less likely to be depressed or anxious; have stronger social support; and tend to live longer. As Hellman points out, "Hope begets hope, and it has such a significant protective factor."

We asked Hellman and other experts for strategies that can help cultivate hope-even when it feels unattainable.

1. First, give yourself permission to be hopeful.

Remember when you were a kid, and well-intentioned adults cautioned you not to get your hopes up? That mentality can linger, notes David Feldman, a professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University in California who studies hope. "The truth is, whether or not we allow ourselves to hope, at some point we're going to be disappointed. I don't think the solution is never allowing ourselves to feel hopeful or giving up on hope altogether."

Feldman-who designed a widely used single-session " Hope Workshop "-thinks of hope as the psychological engine that drives progress in our lives. He worries that if we all give up on it, "we're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy." So go ahead and grant yourself permission to look toward the future with excitement and ambition.

2. Set at least one meaningful goal.

In the mid-1980s, the psychologist Charles Snyder set out to determine what qualities hopeful people had in common. He landed on three key factors that form the basis for Hope Theory, a model researchers still rely on today: First, in order to be hopeful, Snyder found, people must think in a goal-oriented way. (More on the other two elements, pathways and agency, in a moment.)

Make it a point to always be working toward at least one goal that's intrinsically meaningful, Feldman advises. In other words, it shouldn't be something you have to do-like crossing off your work to-do list-but something you want to do. "Goals can be anything that's important to us," he says.

Feldman recalls a friend who reached out to him in May 2020, newly furloughed from her job, scared about the pandemic, and feeling utterly hopeless. He asked her if she could set one goal that would allow her to use her talents and make her feel empowered. The woman, who enjoyed sewing, ended up pledging to turn scraps of fabric into face masks-and donated 200 to local nonprofits and charity groups. "When I caught up with her a month later, she was transformed-she felt so much more hopeful," he says.

3. Brainstorm solutions.

Another key element of Snyder's Hope Theory is "pathways." Feldman describes this as "kind of a strange psychology term that means having the perception that there are plans or ways of getting you from where you are to your goals." If you've set a goal that's meaningful to you, but you can't figure out a way to achieve it, you'll probably feel pretty hopeless. People who are high in hope, meanwhile, tend to generate lots of pathways-so if one doesn't work out, they have an alternative at the ready. If you're struggling to make a plan, or you keep being blocked-by someone else, or an unfair system, or bad luck-Feldman suggests sitting down with a pen and paper and giving yourself an hour to brainstorm solutions.

4. Call your support team.

According to Snyder's research, people who are hopeful tend to have a lot of "agency," which means the motivation to actually achieve their goals. Getting a good night's rest, following a healthy diet, and meditating can all promote agency, Feldman says. So can tapping into our own positive beliefs about ourselves; there's a certain power to reminding yourself: "I got this."

Sometimes, however, the strongest source of agency is other people. When Feldman is feeling low, he calls his father, who's his biggest cheerleader. Having someone you care about tell you they believe in you "can give you a kick in the behind," he says. Make a list of your biggest supporters, Feldman suggests, so when you're feeling unmotivated, you know exactly who to call for a boost.

5. Seek out success stories.

Mary Beth Medvide has long been curious about the ways hope manifests in the lives of marginalized groups, like first-generation immigrants. So she set out to explore how low-income students of color experienced it in their daily lives.

In part, she found, they cultivated hope by seeking support from their parents and specific teachers. But they also got a lot out of meeting or learning about other people who had done well for themselves. "By seeing other people succeed-like maybe a senior, when they were a sophomore-they felt like they could succeed," says Medvide, an assistant professor of psychology atSuffolk University in Boston. Indeed, research suggests that high levels of hope are associated with academic achievement and career exploration.

That's something we can all apply to our own lives: Make it a point to read books about or even befriend people who have overcome adversity to achieve their goals, and you'll likely feel more hopeful about your own future, Medvide says.

6. Tap into your imagination.

Hellman thinks of imagination as "the instrument of hope." Let's say you set a goal for the week, like applying for five jobs, helping your kid adjust to preschool, or volunteering for two hours. Spend a few minutes reflecting on or talking about what would happen if you achieved it. "How does it impact you, or how would it benefit others, and who are those other people?" he says. "You and I have this wonderful capacity to play a movie in our head. And when you can see yourself in the future, that is the very essence of hope."

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6 Ways to Cultivate Hope When You Don't Have Any

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Hope is a way of thinking-and experts say it can be taught. The three key elements are goals, pathways, and agency.

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Washington Administrative Office of the Courts: Family and Youth Justice Programs (HOPE)

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Washington Administrative Office of the Courts: Family and Youth Justice Programs (HOPE)

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Family and Youth Justice Programs - Transforming systems to promote thriving families and equitable court communities

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The Family & Youth Justice Programs (FYJP), at the Administrative Office of the Courts, is working with system partners to infuse the science of hope into the practices and culture of our system. The goals of our hope work are to engage interested system partners to identify ways we can influence positive outcomes and shift the system by creating hope-centered organizations that promote the well-being and resilience of professionals and the families and communities we serve.

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FYJP is working to infuse the science of hope into the practices and culture of the dependency court system. The goal of our hope work is to engage interested system partners to identify ways they can influence positive outcomes and shift the system by creating hope-centered organizations that promote the well-being and resilience of professionals and the families and communities we serve.

What is Hope?

"Hope is the belief that the future will be better than today and you have the power to make it so."

HOPE THEORY
According to renowned hope expert and co-author of Hope Rising, Dr. Chan Hellman, this definition of "hope" requires both pathways thinking and agency thinking. Pathways thinking is the means to the goal, the steps a person must take to achieve their hopes. Agency thinking is motivation, or having the dedication to follow the path one has created.

Agency without pathways is more like wishful thinking, and may not lead to tangible results, so the presence of both is vital to hopefulness and goal achievement.

Hope Science & Child Dependency
Families
Building hope for families increases trust and engagement in the system.
Professionals
Nurturing hope supports workforce well-being and decreases burnout.
Systems
Hope-centered organizations have lower turnover and higher service quality.

Promoting Hope

All of us are able to promote and nurture hope in those around us, those we serve, and ourselves. Once we are aware of the power of hope, we can start by just speaking on hope to others. If we want to take it a step further, we can encourage goal setting utilizing both pathways and agency thinking. If a someone is having trouble envisioning the path to their goal, we can with problem-solving or referring that person to local resources. This nurturing of hope can have profound impacts for our own feelings of self-worth and levels of hopefulness. In this way we can infuse hope through ourselves and those around which contributes to the cultivation of hope-centered communities. A community of hope can start with a small ripple, which can then spread and grow throughout an entire ocean. And that can start with you today!

The Power of Hope

Living through a pandemic has significantly impacted families, professionals, communities and the organizations we in which we operate. Many of us have experienced pandemic fatigue, which has exacerbated challenges that already existed in our system and led to a breakdown in trust and relationships. On August 4th FYJP held a 2-hour webinar open to all dependency court and system partners across the state to learn more about how organizations can become hope-centered and contribute to the well-being and resilience of professionals and the families and communities they serve. This free webinar event featured renowned hope science expert and researcher, Dr. Chan Hellman, founder of the Hope Research Center at the University of Oklahoma. Chan shared the surprisingly simple science of hope and described his work with child welfare agencies and court systems in other states that have used hope science to make statistically significant improvements, such as reducing burnout for staff and increasing the trust and engagement of families. The materials and information from the webinar are available on in the HUB, including a full recording of the training.

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HOPE THEORY According to renowned hope expert and co-author of Hope Rising, Dr. Chan Hellman, this definition of "hope" requires both pathways thinking and agency thinking. Pathways thinking is the means to the goal, the steps a person must take to achieve their hopes.

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My 5 year old son loves this book and I really enjoy the conversations that spring up when we read it.

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Shari Lyon (Author), Casey Gwinn (Author), Joy Raab (Illustrator), Karianne Johansen (Contributor) & 1 more

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GOODNIGHT, MOONBRIGHT [Lyon, Shari, Gwinn, Casey, Raab, Joy, Johansen, Karianne] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. GOODNIGHT, MOONBRIGHT

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This is a book to help teach little ones about the Science of Hope.

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Shari Lyon knows stories and songs always bring a dynamic force to produce actions to make our world a better, kinder place.

With 40 years of teaching and performing experience, she loves to offer her stories in classroom visits (virtual and in person), conferences, interviews, panels, retreats, and workshops. Shari loves to connect children (and their grown ups) with each other and animals through her stories.

As a writing coach, Shari also is anxious to help other writers with their stories and get them published.

Shari is committed to working with non-profits like San Diego Zoo Global and The Alliance for HOPE International to tell their stories and educate a new generation of young supporters.

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MoonBright, a full, super moon journeys across the planet saying good night to the animals from several countries and asking them where they saw HOPE during their day. Includes a song, sheet music and a FUN FACTS section about how to increase HOPE in children and adults.