What We Do

We help you equip youth leaving care to become well-adjusted, self-sufficient,
productive members of their communities.

Training with Hope Institute is an interactive, tailored experience that aims to equip your center to make thoughtful, confident decisions about the children in your care. Our primary focus is preparing children to live as independent adults.

Research gives us the tools we need to understand complicated problems and craft thoughtful solutions.  Because our training is evidence-based, we can be confident that we’re sharing the very best practices for the kids who need it most.

Research gives us the tools we need to understand complicated problems and craft thoughtful solutions.  Because our training is evidence-based, we can be confident that we’re sharing the very best practices for the kids who need it most.

We believe in improving the systems of care for high-risk OVC. We strive to be constant advocates for programs and policies that put the needs of children first.

Training with Hope Institute is an interactive, tailored experience that aims to equip your center to make thoughtful, confident decisions about the children in your care. Our primary focus is preparing children to live as independent adults.

Research gives us the tools we need to understand complicated problems and craft thoughtful solutions.  Because our training is evidence-based, we can be confident that we’re sharing the very best practices for the kids who need it most.

We believe in improving the systems of care for high-risk OVC. We strive to be constant advocates for programs and policies that put the needs of children first.

Training

Effective training deeply engages both the trainer and the trainee. We bring a child-first perspective to a tailored experience that aims to equip your center to make thoughtful, confident decisions about the children in your care.

Our Focus:  Transition to Independence

Children aging out of protection systems are at a greater risk of experiencing negative outcomes. However, thoughtful and intentional efforts from supportive adults who care for them can help improve their chances of success. Hope Institute can help your center build a well-designed transition program to equip the children in your care to successfully navigate life as independent adults.

Our Training Process

Assess Care

First, we meet with leadership to learn more about where your program is right now. The team uses our Quality of Care Assessment to help identify strengths, as well as areas that could use improvement.

Build A training Plan

Next, we analyze information from the assessment and develop a training plan that is customized to your center’s individual needs.

Improve Care

Our team conducts in-person training to introduce best practices, identify goals, make a plan, and set a timeline to make changes.

Ongoing Support

After the in-person training, we follow up with regular check-ins to offer support and help navigate obstacles as they arise.

Assess Care

First, we meet with leadership to learn more about where the program is right now. The team uses our Quality of Care Assessment to help identify strengths as well as areas that could use improvement.

Build A training Plan

Next, we analyze information from the assessment and develop a training plan customized to each center’s individual needs.

Improve Care

Our team conducts in-person training to introduce best practices, identify goals, make a plan, and set a timeline to make changes.

Ongoing Support

After the in-person training, we follow up with regular check-ins to offer support and help navigate obstacles as they arise.

Should I apply For Training?

Are you part of the leadership team at a center that provides residential care for children?

Would you like to partner with Hope Institute to equip the children at your center to thrive?

Research

Best practices are always evidence-based. From our perspective, research is a pathway to better care.  We actively engage research because we know its application can lead to healthier outcomes for children in care systems.

Learning From Research

We seek answers from the people currently conducting and publishing research on topics that matter most for children growing up in care systems. We know there is often a gap between research and practice, and we strive to bridge that gap through training.

Partnering In Research

We are eager to contribute to the knowledge base about kids growing up in out-of-family care systems. We partner with researchers, governments, and other NGOs to learn more about how to achieve the best possible outcomes for high-risk orphans and vulnerable children around the world.

Partnering In Research

We are eager to contribute to the knowledge base about kids growing up in out-of-family care systems. We partner with researchers, governments, and other NGOs to learn more about how to achieve the best possible outcomes for high-risk orphans and vulnerable children around the world.

Assessing Care at the Center Level

We work with centers to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their program. Our proprietary tool helps us assess practices and track progress over time. And when it’s paired with outcomes tracking, it can help us see which practices are working and which might need improvement—and that can lead to better care.

Advocacy

Sometimes when we partner with group homes to improve their quality of care, we find gaps that cannot be filled at the center level. There are often gaps in the larger child protection systems that can only be filled at a higher level, and in those cases, we work hard to identify solutions and advocate for change in the system.

Points of Advocacy Interventions

Governments

Good care starts at the policy level. Many governments are seeking to improve the quality of care for high-risk OVC. We work alongside them to find child-first solutions.

NGOs

NGOs know firsthand the strengths and weaknesses of care systems. We partner with them to improve the care environment throughout a region or a country.

NGOs

NGOs know firsthand the strengths and weaknesses of care systems. We partner with them to improve the care environment throughout a region or a country.

Networks

Many regions have networks that promote, coordinate, and support the work of individual centers. We engage these networks to strengthen their impact, and where there are no networks, we work to help develop them.

The Hope Institute team gave us the training and resources to be able to prepare our kids to live successful lives.

Claire Henderson

Helping Hands, Healing Hearts