How It Works

Similar to what LEED Certification does for promoting environmental health in organizations,
H.O.P.E. Certification provides a path to psychological health and safety at work.

H.O.P.E Certification is a community-level initiative that brings together cities, counties, and medium to large businesses, nonprofits, associations, and coalitions to learn about and implement best practices to create change at the institutional and community level. H.O.P.E. Certification is delivered in a regional cohort model, kicking off with a Workplace Wellbeing Summit that is hosted by a Regional Champion.

AFTER THE SUMMIT, the regional Cohort Module sign-up begins, allowing community organizations to sign up teams of 5-10 people to attend a year-long Cohort. Throughout the year, the Cohort meets four times to go over training and identify their action plans. In between Cohort Modules, organizations are able to meet with their trainer to discuss challenges and successes, receive coaching, and submit their deliverables and reports on action steps. Cohort participants receive a H.O.P.E. Certification badge for each module and deliverables they complete. At the end of the training modules, the Cohort is brought together for a celebration and graduation.

Scroll below to learn more about H.O.P.E. Certification. If you are interested in implementing H.O.P.E. Certification in your business or community, please contact us here or sign up below.

By participating in H.O.P.E. Certification, you clearly demonstrate your commitment to worker wellbeing to your current and prospective workers.

H.O.P.E Certification Program
Pricing

How It Works

Step 1: Workplace Wellbeing Summit
A Regional Champion will co-host a Workplace Wellbeing Summit in your community. We provide 2-3 trainers for a full-day conference and provide best practices recommendations for setting up the summit. Often, Regional Champions cover the costs of the event, charge registration fees, or engage funders and sponsors to cover the costs.

Step 2: Cohort Readiness Assessment
Following the Summit, the Regional Champion will establish four Cohort Module dates and launch a community-specific registration process for regional organizations and businesses to sign up for the Cohort. The first part of the process is for interested organizations to complete a Readiness Assessment.

Step 3: Cohort Module Registration
Organizations and businesses that complete the Readiness Assessment are invited to enroll teams of 5-10 in their regional Cohorts.

Step 4: Cohort Module Implementation
The Cohorts typically meet four times over the course of 12 months, with Cohorts covering four modules. Throughout the process, Cohorts can meet with their trainers to receive coaching and guidance.

  • Module 1: Needs and Strengths Assessment | Practices 1 & 2

  • Module 2: Practices 3-5

  • Module 3: Practices 6-8

  • Module 4: Practice 9 and final impact actions

Step 5: Certification and Graduation
Businesses and organizations that successfully complete the modules and implementation practices receive badges and certifications as they go along, cultivating in an end of program graduation.

regional Champion sign-up

Outcomes & Learning Goals

H.O.P.E. Certification is a 12-month culture-changing program with quarterly training and ongoing coaching on how to implement 9 evidence-based, best practices developed from research literature and lived experience:

  1. Engage Leadership: Cultivate a caring culture focused on community well-being and leadership role modeling

  2. Reduce Psychosocial Hazards: Assess and address job strain and toxic work contributors

  3. Build a Culture-Shifting Communication Strategy: Increase awareness and understanding of mental health, addictive behaviors, and suicide while reducing fear and bias

  4. Foster Self-Care Orientation: Encourage self-screening, stress inoculation planning, and self-care

  5. Establish a Skill-Development Training: Build a stratified skill-building approach to mental health promotion and suicide prevention across the organization and career of the workforce

  6. Develop Workplace Peer Supporters and Well-Being Ambassadors: Establish informal and formal initiatives for peer allies to offer support and be a bridge to resources

  7. Audit and Promote Mental Health and Crisis Resources: Evaluate the effectiveness and accessibility of resources and engage the workforce utilization

  8. Mitigate Risk: Increase lethal means safety, engage in harm reduction, and understand legal issues

  9. Institute a Crisis Response Plan: Support, accommodate, reintegrate, and offer postvention after mental health emergencies

Implementation

How to bring H.O.P.E. Certification to your community

STEP 1:
Identify interest from key partners in a region or division that may be willing to engage in a year-long investment in significant culture change related to worker well-being.

STEP 2:
Inquire about the implementation process and budget, contact us here.

STEP 3:
Build out implementation plan, access funding, and recruit participants

H.O.P.E. Certification and Workplace Wellbeing Summits are expanding across the United States. See a list of where we’ve been and where we’re going next.

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