The Hopeful Cities® Playbook is a resource designed to make hope accessible and operational in any city around the world. It is a marketing plan in action that operationalizes hope as it creates awareness about the Science of Hope. It is a step-by-step guide to help cities activate the “how-to” of hope throughout the community.

Hopeful Cities® is equipping cities around the world with the tools they need to create, maintain, and grow hope, citywide. Activate hope in your community now.

The digital Shine Hope infographic shows the How-to of Hope in trying times. It is a simple way to get started learning the Five Keys to Shine Hope. Fill out the download form using the button below to get your digital copy this infographic. Once you download, you’ll find clickable links so you can learn more about each of the skills we talk about in the Shine Hope framework.

The Five-Day Global Hope Challenge is a five-day challenge ensuring all know the what, why, and how to hope. It reviews what hopelessness is, the Shine Hope framework, and instructs how to measure hope. It is a simple way to get started learning how to Shine Hope.

Social media is a great way to share the resources available for hope with your friends, family, and community, so we have created a social media toolkit for hope as well. All of our images and content are available to download at no cost to share and activate the message for hope. 

Fill out the download form using the button below to get your Global Hope Challenge Social Media Kit.

My Shine Hope Story gives community leaders an avenue to normalize hopelessness and share their unique experiences by using the Shine Hope framework. We all experience moments of hopelessness (i.e., emotional despair and motivational helplessness). How we manage the moments of hopelessness matters.

We suggest you share a recent challenge, large or small. We encourage you to spend 20% of the time describing what the hopelessness was about (sadness, anger, fear, and powerlessness). We then ask you to spend 80% of the story sharing how you overcame it.

What Stress Skills did you use? What Happiness Habits did you practice? What Inspired Actions did you take to make it through? How did your Nourishing Networks support you? And what was one of your biggest challenges (i.e., negative thought pattern), and how did you overcome it?

We encourage you to share your story with the community while encouraging others to share their stories as well. Discuss what skills work, help all practice, and be sure people know where to go for support if they are having challenges in your city. You can download the My Shine Hope Story Template here.

If you want to share your hope story on social media, we encourage you to do so. Please tag us @ifredorg @theshinehopecompany #myhopestory #myhopehero so we can share with others.

The Hopeful Minds Parent’s Guide provides a broad overview of the concepts discussed in the Hopeful Minds curriculums, and provides parents with easy ways to implement the Five Keys to Shine Hope (Stress Skills, Happy Habits, Inspired Actions, Nourishing Networks, and Eliminating Challenges) and hopeful language in the home. It is helpful when parents reinforce hope language at home, so the family can practice together.

Hope is measurable and teachable. With hopelessness at an all-time high in youth, we’ve got to be proactive about practicing these skills with youth. This is a tool parents can use to talk about mental health in a positive, proactive way at home and know what to look out for and find resources for support.

Fill out the download form using the button below to get your digital copy this curriculum.

The Hopeful Minds Overview is a curriculum designed to give children an introduction to the “what,” “why,” and “how” of hope. The curriculum includes three, one-hour lessons that introduce the key tools needed to create, maintain, and grow hope. Additionally, the curriculum includes background information for educators, supplemental resources, classroom visuals, and a Hopework Book for students. 

While this curriculum is geared towards 2nd-grade students, it can be easily adapted for any age range (adults included) and can be utilized in any setting (such as schools, after-school programs, places of worship, hospitals, offices, and more). This curriculum has been specially designed to be used for either classroom or remote learning.

Fill out the download form using the button below to get your digital copy this curriculum.

The Hopeful Minds Deep Dive Educator Guide is a curriculum for K-6 (but can be used for any age) designed to give children a deeper understanding of the core components of hope. The curriculum is scripted allowing anyone to teach the 16, 45-minute lessons that explore the tools needed to create, maintain, and grow hope, background information for educators, supplemental resources, classroom visuals, and a Hopework Book for students. It meets National Health Education Standards put forth by the CDC. The Hopework Book is included in the curriculum, but it can also be downloaded separately.

Our Hopeful Minds Teen Hopeful is a 12-module workbook that was tested and approved by teens. The program introduces the Five Keys to Shine Hope™: Stress Skills, Happiness Habits, Inspired Actions, Nourishing Networks, and Eliminating Challenges. This comprehensive approach empowers teens to navigate challenges, embrace positivity, and empower resilience. 

The workbook employs a peer-to-peer teaching style, encouraging both individual reflection and group discussions. Interactive elements such as engaging activities, games, creative expressions, worksheets, and puzzles enhance the learning experience. The workbook itself is the curriculum, so educators are not necessary for use. We encourage having facilitators, yet it is designed for anyone to use.

It is based on the award-winning Hopeful Minds program and is intended for teens to do together. As in the US alone, 57% of teen girls are identifying with persistent hopelessness, we encourage entire schools and classrooms to do the program. It is a proactive, protective approach to mental health. These are skills all youth need to learn and can be implemented in classrooms, after-school programs, places of worship, and more. Anywhere that teens gather, this program is encouraged for use.