When it comes to parenting, hope changes everything.
Empowering parents & caregivers to raise kids who thrive
Across Oklahoma, families are dealing with:
- Generational trauma
- Addiction & abuse
- Stress & exhaustion
- Behavioral & health challenges
- Lack of community
These challenges can leave parents feeling alone & hopeless about their child’s future.
Across Oklahoma, families are dealing with:
Generational
trauma
Addiction &
abuse
Stress &
exhaustion
Behavioral & health challenges
Lack of
community
These challenges can leave parents feeling alone & hopeless about their child’s future.
Every parent – no matter their circumstances – has the power to build a better future for their child. They just need to know how.
Hope-Driven Parenting IS Here To Help.
Our program combines decades of experience in child development and child welfare with the evidence-based, life-changing science of hope. It’s designed for all types of parents and caregivers raising all types of kids…easy to understand, easy to implement, easy to reteach.
At our workshops and events, parents & caregivers learn to:
- Understand the impact of trauma & adversity
- Build healthier, happier, more hopeful families
- Prevent hard circumstances from defining or derailing a child
- Find support & community with other families
- Create a better future for generations to come!
Parents need the science of hope, and we’re bringing it to them.
Hope-Driven Parenting builds hopeful families through:
Training
Parent/caregiver workshops, online training & other educational events
RESOURCES
Hope-centered & trauma-informed parenting strategies & principles
SUPPORT
Helpful community for hope-building parents & caregivers
The Science
Every child needs hope…and so does every adult. More than 2,000 studies have shown that hope is the single greatest predictor of success in family relationships, trauma recovery, social relationships, mental health, physical health, education and work.
Hope-Driven Parenting provides parents & caregivers with evidence-based, accessible, teachable methods for building hope in themselves and their children. We know that hopeful adults raise hopeful children!
At our workshops and events, parents & caregivers learn to:
- Nurture children exposed to trauma
- Help children develop their own capacity for hope
- Cope & adapt with adversity themselves
- Maintain motivation & reduce burnout
Families with high hope experience:
Stronger recovery
from trauma & adversity
Improved family
& social relationships
Significantly less
negative behavior
Reduced alcohol
& substance abuse
Greater success
in school & work
Greater capacity
to set & pursue goals
Stronger recovery from trauma & adversity
Improved family & social relationships
Significantly less negative behavior
Reduced alcohol & substance abuse
Greater success in school & work
Greater capacity to set & pursue goals
Hope transforms families for generations to come.
Our Leadership
About Amy Emerson, MD
- 20+ years supporting parents as a pediatrician specializing in developmental & behavioral children’s health
- Local, state & national advocate for early literacy & the importance of early brain growth
- Board President of Lilyfield, working to provide children with stable, nurturing homes
- Board Member of Office of Juvenile Affairs, Not Your Average Joe & Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness…committed to valuing every child in our state
- Married for 27 years with experience as a family in adoption and foster care
- Proud mom of 4 kids with unique strengths & struggles
Our Mission
Empowering parents to create hope-centered families.
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Hope-Driven Parenting is an initiative of Hope Rising Oklahoma, founded by Oklahoma First Lady Sarah Stitt and OU Hope Research Center Founding Director Dr. Chan Hellman.
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