The iHOPE school community strives to provide comprehensive services for our students, who present with a variety of diagnoses including Traumatic Brain Injury, Acquired Brain Injury, and other brain-based disorders. Our students participate in academic instruction with appropriate modification and adaptation, as well as therapeutic services, based upon a collaborative, researched-based model that integrates current technology. iHOPE is committed to learners with complex needs and to their social, emotional, adaptive and educational advancement. Accessibility and integration into the larger community are at the core of our belief system. Educational services are delivered within a warm, nurturing school environment by educators, researchers, and trainers with an unparalleled concentration of expertise in brain injury. iHOPE embraces and models the hallmarks of exceptional educational services. The Core Values of iHOPE
1. Leadership: We are committed to creating systemic change in the way students with brain injury and other brain-based disorders are educated.
2. Family-focused: We always place the interests of the person with a brain injury and their families at the center of our decisions.
3. Excellence: We aspire to the highest standard of excellence by implementing best practices and drawing on evidence-based research in the delivery of technically competent care.
4. Professional Development: We foster an environment of rigor and respect in order to attract and retain the very best licensed and credentialed practitioners with expertise in pediatric brain injury.
5. Dissemination: We support active dissemination of applied research, translating advances into effective hands-on instructional methodologies and approaches.
6. Compassion: We focus on meaningful outcomes for our students, attained within a context of kindness, optimism, and celebration of growth and skill mastery.
