Research into practice / The project portfolio
What we’re
building.
Practical ways to strengthen hope. Programs, applications, and tools being developed around agency, connection, and the ability to find a way forward.
In development
Crossmatch™
In development
Peer connection for transplant recipients.
A peer-connection concept being developed to help transplant recipients connect with people who understand the experience. Another person with relevant lived experience can become part of a practical pathway forward.
Hope lens / Connection as pathway
Be My Bridge™
In development
Patient-powered advocacy and healthcare navigation.
Designed to help people become more capable participants in complicated healthcare systems through appointment preparation, organized medical information, clearer questions, and help identifying resources and practical next steps.
It aims to strengthen agency without making people responsible for failures of the system.
Hope lens / Agency + practical pathways
Supported work
BatchSwap
HMH-supported
A community food-sharing model supported by Help Me Hope, designed to reduce individual cooking burden while increasing variety, nourishment, mutual support, and neighborhood connection.
Hope lens / Connection + practical pathways
Early concept / Seeking partners
DogDash™
Early concept / Seeking partners
Hope can be held in a dog.
Exploring access to established, trained therapy-dog and handler teams for people who may have limited access to this kind of connection, including older adults who are isolated or unable to travel easily.
Help Me Hope is developing the access model, partnership structure, hope-science framework, and potential measurement approach. The proposed model would collaborate with established therapy-animal organizations.
Possible settings include nursing homes, schools, appropriate healthcare settings, and community environments, with individual home visits where operationally and legally appropriate.
Hope lens / Connection + re-engagement
Exploring
Room to explore.
Questions and working concepts whose scope, feasibility, and form are still taking shape.
The Hope Map™
Exploratory concept
A practical process for identifying a meaningful goal, barriers, agency, existing and alternate pathways, people and resources, and a next meaningful action.
Hope lens / Agency + pathways
Hope Rx
Exploratory concept / Working title
An early healthcare-oriented concept exploring how hope research could inform practical support for agency and possible pathways during uncertainty.
The Pathway Fund
Exploratory concept
A potential microgrant model for addressing defined practical barriers that stand between a person and a meaningful goal.
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