Hope

To encourage a sense of hope, families can:

1. Have your child connect with someone in your family or community to ask a person they respect how they stayed hopeful in troubled times.

2. Teach about other historical times of crisis, including how these ended and communities rebounded.

3. Encourage your child to get fresh air and to move alot when possible.

4. Share some of the many stories of hope and helping that have come out of this current crisis.

5. Share a positive affirmation or a strength of your child—it can go a long way right now.

6. Let your child know that people find help in different ways, including through spiritual beliefs and practices, and encourage students to discuss things that bring them hope.

7. Facilitate and encourage your child to meet virtually or by phone with a trusted adult who can show them a different perspective, help to identify their talents and strengths, list their options and resources, and encourage and support them.