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Growing HOPE Application Briefs

Concise working briefs for maternal and infant health, coalitions, and parent leadership.

Maternal and infant health

  • Reduce isolation and strengthen relational health.
  • Elevate parent leadership and informed choice.
  • Connect families to services, relationships, belonging, and agency.
  • Improve the environments surrounding pregnancy, birth, infancy, and early parenthood.

Coalitions and community systems

  • Move from isolated programs to shared protective conditions.
  • Use positive norms and local assets to shape strategy.
  • Clarify roles, decisions, measures, feedback, and shared ownership.
  • Build relationships that remain useful beyond a single grant or campaign.

Parent and community leadership

  • Treat lived experience as expertise.
  • Define meaningful roles, decision rights, and compensation.
  • Include parents as designers, facilitators, researchers, and evaluators.
  • Measure whether participation changes decisions, not only attendance.

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