What is HOPEFUL?

HOPEFUL is a package of materials designed to help you become more hopeful and to experience the benefits of hope in your daily life. HOPEFUL is based on a powerful set of research-backed tools. These tools are designed to help you to learn about yourself, to grow and maintain your hope, and to move closer towards live the sort of life that feels meaningful to you. HOPEFUL has been created by working with young people and the people that support them.

HOPEFUL is currently only available to young women involved in our research study called The Looking Forward Project.

 

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The crucial role of mentors

Young people and those that support them told us that packages like HOPEFUL work better if young people have some support to use them. HOPEFUL is supported by a mentor. This could be someone that is selected by the young person themselves, someone they already know and trust. However, we are also very interested to hear from anyone that would like to volunteer as a mentor to help support young people to thrive. Mentors have training and guidance to help them to perform their role. Currently, mentors are supporting young women to work through HOPEFUL only in The Looking Forward Project.

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Library of hope stories

A central part of the HOPEFUL intervention is our hope library. This contains real-life stories told to us by young people with experience of mental health or social problems. In these stories, young people talk about what hope means to them, what keeps them hopeful, and what hope helps them to do. 

Watch an example hope story and write your own to become part of our hope library!

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Testimonials

"Hope is just one of those things that never ends, if you run out and somebody else has got hope, they can push you to find it."

Sophie

26 years

"It's all really helpful. It's set out really well, the layout of it, the theme, the videos, it's all really good, down to other people's stories, which is really nice to hear."

Indy

21 years

"It's pushed me to do the things that I want to do and the things that are meaningful to me."

Kit

24 years

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