What is HOPEFUL?

HOPEFUL is a package of materials designed to help you become more hopeful and experience the benefits of hope in your daily life. HOPEFUL is based on a powerful set of research-backed tools. These tools offer support with learning about yourself, growing and maintaining your hope, and moving closer to living a life that feels meaningful to you. HOPEFUL has been created together with young people and the people that support them.

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

 

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The crucial role of mentors

Young people have told us that having the support of a mentor can play an important role in helping their hope to grow. That’s why HOPEFUL has been designed to use a flexible mentoring model. This begins with support from a trained volunteer called a Coach. The Coach then provides support to try and identify a trusted adult from the young person’s own life who could provide ongoing mentoring over the longer-term.

We are interested to hear from anyone that would like to volunteer as a Coach to help support young people to thrive. 

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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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