Hope is essential to flourishing. Where hope is rising, well-being is rising, success is rising, and health is rising. The best part? Hope is a cognitive process – a pattern of thinking we can learn and influence.

Hope is measurable, and hope can be increased. When you combine vision with a pathway and a sense of agency, you build hope. We can directly influence the levels of hope within our communities by fostering access to opportunity and by encouraging the patterns of thinking that create hope.

As we look to the future, hope is FAO’s guiding indicator – and our fuel. Hope is essential to a Flourishing Appalachian Ohio. We invite everyone to join FAO as we explore new approaches for leveraging the science of hope in our lives and the lives of our communities.