Sege, B. (2020, March 17). HOPE, Engagement, and COVID19. Retrieved March 27, 2020.

Last week, I posted a blog post about a HOPE-informed approach to the restrictions from COVID-19. Since then, I’ve been thinking about one of the building blocks of HOPE: engagement. As children grow and develop, engaging with the larger community around them provides a sense of “mattering” — a sense that their participation in the community really does matter. The emergency conditions now in effect provide numerous opportunities to children and teens to pitch in. Here are a few ideas — please click on this post and use the comments section or go to our “Ask the Community” query on ACEs Connection to add your own.