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Alchemizing HOPE: From Surviving to Thriving

HOPE means Hope-Driven Opportunities to Personally Evolve™. Alchemize HOPE is an ecosystem helping individuals, organizations, and communities move beyond surface-level mindset work to explore the deeper experiences shaping how we think, lead, and relate to one another. Through the Pathway to HOPE™, we create spaces to: Connect • Learn • Grow • Heal

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“We're not building another training company. We're building the Human Development Operating System™” — Alchemize HOPE graphic of people connected around a glowing globe: helping people, empowering organizations, transforming communities, changing systems

A new conversation

The World Is Ready for a New Conversation

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Across the world, individuals and organizations are experiencing rising levels of stress, burnout, and disconnection. Many systems designed to support people are struggling to keep pace with the complexity of human experience. As a result, many individuals and leaders find themselves operating in survival mode—reacting to crises rather than responding with awareness and intention. Survival mode protects us during moments of danger, but it was never meant to be the place where we live our lives or lead our organizations. Alchemize HOPE exists to help individuals and systems move beyond survival and cultivate environments where people can truly thrive.

Graphic: 'The Problem — siloed systems, disconnected solutions' beside 'People don't live in silos. Neither should solutions.' Siloed service pillars — healthcare, behavioral health, education, business & workplace, criminal justice, social services — giving way to one connected, human-centered network, signed Alchemize HOPE

People don't live in silos — neither should solutions. Graphic © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Four entry points — not steps

The Pathway to HOPE™

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The Pathway to HOPE™ is a trauma-aware ecosystem designed to support people and organizations through four interconnected areas of human experience. These areas are not steps, phases, or stages. They are entry points — you may enter wherever you are and move through the ecosystem according to your needs. Tap an artwork to begin.

CONNECT pathway artwork — gold lotus over a lakeside gathering at sunset, Alchemize HOPE LEARN pathway artwork — gold lotus above an open book, Alchemize HOPE GROW pathway artwork — gold lotus above hands holding a seedling, Alchemize HOPE HEAL pathway artwork — gold lotus with roots reaching into starlight, Alchemize HOPE
CONNECTBelonging & community
LEARNTraining & knowledge
GROWCoaching & leadership
HEALWellness & sustainability

Multiple pathways. Meaningful choice.

Pathway artwork © 2026 Alchemize HOPE Institute. All rights reserved.

Start anywhere

Where Would You Like to Begin?

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There is no required order and no wrong door. Choose the beginning that fits where you are today — and move between pathways whenever you like.

CONNECT

Find Community

Belonging is where many journeys begin. CONNECT gathers the communities, gatherings, and people of Alchemize HOPE — online, in person, and out in the world.

LEARN

Build Knowledge

Understanding changes everything. LEARN is home to the Alchemize HOPE Institute — trainings, microlearning, and a growing Learning Library built on the Trauma-Aware Approach™.

GROW

Strengthen My Capacity

Knowledge becomes lived practice here. GROW offers coaching, consulting, and technical assistance for individuals, teams, leaders, and whole organizations.

HEAL

Explore My Wellness

Wellness is whole-person. HEAL explores the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ — and the conditions shaping each one — at your own pace, with meaningful choice.

Looking beneath the surface

Mindset Is Often Just the Icing

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Many personal development models focus primarily on mindset. Mindset matters—but it is often only the visible layer of human experience. Two cakes can look identical on the outside yet contain completely different ingredients. Human behavior works the same way. What we see, hear, or interpret on the surface does not always reveal the deeper experiences shaping someone's reactions, beliefs, and responses. The Trauma-Aware Approach™ invites us to slow down, become curious, and explore the ingredients beneath the surface.

Beyond Mindset™ infographic — THE ICING: what we see, say, and hear (behaviors, communication, performance, leadership, relationships, choices, mindset, success, and the emotions we express) versus THE INGREDIENTS: what shapes us beneath the surface (life experiences, relationships and attachment, social conditions, protective factors, trauma and adversity, neurodiversity and biology, beliefs and values, culture and identity, opportunities and access, challenges and stressors, environment and community, hope and resilience)

Language That Opens Doors

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Words shape how people are seen — and how they see themselves. Alchemize HOPE uses welcoming language based on curiosity rather than judgment, in a brave space where people can be honest:

Ask “What happened?” and “What's happening?” — not “What's wrong?”
“Unhoused,” not “homeless,” when describing people
“Activation,” not “trigger”
Responding rather than reacting
Connection before correction
Multiple pathways. Meaningful choice.
Person-driven, always
A brave space — honest, respectful, human

The foundation beneath the Pathway

Conditions That Shape Human Potential™

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Before we ask what a person should change, we become curious about the conditions surrounding them. The Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ are the everyday circumstances — resources, environments, relationships, opportunities, and supports — that shape what feels possible in a person's life. Rather than treating someone's actions as an isolated problem, we ask “What happened?” and “What's happening?” — and we look at the whole picture with curiosity.

Opportunity & Financial Stability

Income, employment, economic opportunities, and access — the resources that make choice possible.

Home, Safety & Environment

Housing, transportation, green space, and community safety — the places where life happens.

Learning & Growth

Education, opportunity, and learning environments that open — or close — what comes next.

Daily Needs & Nourishment

Food access, daily necessities, rest, and care — the basics every other goal stands on.

Relationships & Belonging

Support, social connections, inclusion, and exclusion — the people and communities around us.

Health, Healing & Support

Healthcare, autonomy, services, and protective supports that help people recover and thrive.

The social determinants of health (SDOH) live inside this wider framework — an important part of the picture, not the whole of it. The Conditions also reach further: lived experiences and trauma, protective experiences, systemic inequalities, culture and identity, history, biology, neurodiversity, meaning and purpose, agency, opportunity, and community resources.

Global Initiatives

Connection in Action

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Free HUGS Initiative

'You Have Been Hugged' heart sticker 'You Have Been Hugged' sticker — gold hands holding a blue heart

The Free HUGS Initiative promotes compassion, connection, and meaningful conversations about trauma, suicide, and healing. Through simple acts of human connection, the initiative encourages responses of hope rather than fear.

Remembering S.L.O.P.

S.L.O.P. — Suicide as a Language of Pain badge Survivors Supporting Survivors™ medallion — two golden figures holding a radiant blue heart

SLOP — Suicide as a Language of Pain — was Angel's first room: survivors leading survivors since 2010. An initiative of Alchemize HOPE, bringing awareness around the need for confidential, brave, and safe spaces for survivors, by survivors — a judgment-free space to talk about pain and suicide. SLOP groups are on pause right now, but SLOP is never forgotten.

Purpose and Reentry Initiatives

Beyond the Bars™ emblem — Reentry, Redemption, HOPE

We are exploring initiatives that connect lived-experience mentorship, wellness, skills, community support, and economic opportunity for people navigating reentry and other major life transitions — shaped with partners and participants, with meaningful choice at the center.

Coming Soon No launch date yet.

Watch Free HUGS in Action

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Angel offering Free HUGS at the CareOregon Starlight Parade. Video © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Angel Prater, founder of Alchemize HOPE Institute

Founder

Meet Angel Prater

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Angel Prater is the founder of Alchemize HOPE and a national trainer, consultant, and systems change advocate. For nearly three decades she has worked across behavioral health, social services, peer support, crisis response, and criminal justice systems implementing trauma-aware approaches. Her mission is to Alchemize HOPE by creating Hope-Driven Opportunities to Personally Evolve™. Angel believes that our past does not need to define us — it can design who we become.

Voices of HOPE Podcast — Alchemize HOPE in the World cover art

Voices of HOPE Podcast

Alchemize HOPE in the World

The Voices of HOPE Podcast carries Angel's “Alchemize HOPE in the World” conversations — stories of healing, hope, and what it means to move from surviving to thriving.

Stay connected

Follow the Movement

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Alchemize HOPE Institute

Angel Prater

Media & Press

Explore Angel's videocasts, interviews, articles, and publications — plus the Voices of HOPE Podcast.

Reviews & Testimonials

What People Say After the Training

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Real words from training participants — and the numbers from 181 reviewed evaluation forms across 2022–2023 trainings. Trainings facilitated by Angel Prater & co-facilitators.

Evaluation Highlights

96.7%
Presenters demonstrated teaching
174 of 180 readable responses
94.4%
Would recommend the training
170 of 180 readable responses
94.4%
Can use it in their personal life
168 of 178 readable responses
84.9%
Gained new information
152 of 179 readable responses

Angel's Career Impact

Beyond these evaluations, Angel's purpose-driven work has reached far and wide:

1000s
Trained
100s+
Coached
100s+
Organizations Supported
through technical assistance
30
Years of Purpose-Driven Work

Five-item questionnaire · 155 forms

Would like this training across Oregon96.1%
Presenters demonstrated teaching96.1%
Would recommend the training93.5%
Can use it in their personal life93.5%
Gained new information85.6%

Seven-item questionnaire · 38 forms

Gained new information97.4%
Presenters demonstrated teaching97.4%
Can apply it in their personal life97.4%
Can apply it in their professional life94.6%
Would recommend the training92.1%
Different from other trauma-informed trainings91.7%

Before & after — participants rate their own growth

On the seven-item questionnaire (38 forms), participants retrospectively rated themselves before and after the training on a 1–5 scale. These are participant self-assessments, not objective skills tests.

Understanding of the Trauma Aware Approach™2.58 → 4.34

92.1% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

Understanding of Trauma Informed Care principles2.97 → 4.34

81.6% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

Confidence applying practices in personal life2.54 → 4.19

89.2% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

Confidence applying practices in their professional role2.65 → 4.19

86.5% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

How to read these numbers: Percentages show “strongly agree” plus “mostly agree” as a share of readable responses to each question; blank or unclear responses are excluded question by question. Evaluation forms are not counts of unique participants. These evaluations cover trainings Angel facilitated in 2022–2023 — Intentional Peer Support, peer supervision, crisis prevention & de-escalation, and PacificSource supervision — not every Alchemize HOPE offering.

Testimonials

Participant feedback graphic: “Angel Prater is amazing.” — Training participant, IPS training, October 2022
Participant feedback graphic: “I love that you are you, Angel! Your presentation is amazing & real. I appreciate your transparency, education and delivery.” — Peer supervision training participant
“I think that the expertise of the trainer, Angel, made it very applicable and personal.”
— Training participant, IPS final evaluation, Oct 2022
Participant feedback graphic: “The facilitator was great. She was incredibly knowledgeable, real, genuine & confident.” — Crisis prevention and de-escalation participant, Astoria, April 2024
“Everything! This training gave me tools not only for peer support but also for how I can improve my relationships and trust.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon, Aug 2022
“The trainers were extremely knowledgeable, intentional & approachable.”
— Training participant, IPS final evaluation, June 2022
“Although it was jam-packed with information, it was presented so dynamically that I didn't feel overwhelmed.”
— Training participant, IPS evaluation, Oct 2022
Participant feedback graphic: “… Angel [is] very authentic.” — Training participant, Bend training, July 19–21
“The way the facilitators presented the material was so raw and easy to follow, they where able to open my mind.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon
“This course has taught me to see people & relationships through new eyes.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon
“I am so grateful for the life changing education I received. My life is forever changed because of this training.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon
“Connect, learn, grow, heal, & its applicable to everything!”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon · PacificSource supervision, June 2023
“Angel kept it real. Sharing the truth and not just results to trauma informed care.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon

A Teacher's Testimonial — Niyah Ross

A teacher shares what she took from Angel's Alchemize HOPE training — recorded September 30, 2025. Video © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

The teacher is Niyah Ross. Niyah Ross attended a 2-hour introduction to the Trauma-Aware Approach™ in Abuse Reporting in Oregon, “Remaining Connected During Difficult Conversations.”

National Recognition & Media Highlights poster — Alchemize HOPE and founder Angel Prater featured in national publications including NY Weekly, US Insider, LA Wire, NIH, and SAMHSA; recognized for trauma-informed innovation, systems redesign, peer leadership, and suicide prevention, with 1000s trained nationwide

National recognition & media highlights for Alchemize HOPE and founder Angel Prater. Poster © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Poster: 'We don't just build a business. We build a legacy.' — Alchemize HOPE, Enterprise Ecosystem™: transform lives, strengthen communities, redesign systems, change the world. 'We don't let the past define us. We let it design us. Together, we Alchemize HOPE.'

We don't just build a business. We build a legacy. Poster © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

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About · Overview

About Alchemize HOPE

Alchemize HOPE Institute is a trauma-aware ecosystem helping individuals, organizations, and communities move from surviving to thriving. This page is the map — each part of the story now has its own page.

Start Here

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At the heart of everything is the Pathway to HOPE™ — a non-linear ecosystem of learning, connection, growth, and healing through four entry points: CONNECT, LEARN, GROW, and HEAL. People may enter wherever they are and move between pathways as their own journey unfolds; there is no straight line, and no wrong door. Explore each part of About on its own page:

The Pathway to HOPE™

The full explanation of the Pathway to HOPE™ ecosystem and the signature Trauma-Aware Approach™ behind it — how the four entry points work together, and how the approach differs from trauma-informed care.

Conditions That Shape Human Potential™

The foundation beneath every pathway: the everyday conditions — resources, environments, relationships, and opportunities — that shape what feels possible in a person’s life.

Ways to Travel the Pathway

Learning routes, Success Paths™, and specialized pathways — examples of how people combine CONNECT, LEARN, GROW, and HEAL in their own order, and where to begin.

The AWARE Departments

Advocacy · Wellness · Ambassadors · Redesigning Systems · Education — the five interconnected departments through which the work of Alchemize HOPE reaches the world.

Meet the Team

Angel Prater, founder of Alchemize HOPE, and Mabvaneyi Tangwena — the people behind the Institute, with room here for every team member who joins them.

Ready to move from surviving to thriving?

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About · The Pathway

The Pathway to HOPE™

A trauma-aware ecosystem designed to help individuals, organizations, and communities move from surviving to thriving.

What is the Pathway to HOPE?

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The Pathway to HOPE™ is a non-linear ecosystem that supports learning, connection, growth, and healing. This model recognizes that transformation does not happen in a straight line. People may enter through community, training, coaching, or wellness support and move between these areas in ways that reflect their own journey.

CONNECT — Belonging & Community

Community discussion groups, peer connection spaces, ambassador communities, mastermind groups, and learning cohorts — some free and open, others private and connected to trainings or coaching.

Connect with others →

LEARN — Training & Knowledge

Through the Alchemize HOPE Institute: in-person, online, and hybrid training introducing the Trauma-Aware Approach™ and the Pathway to HOPE™ framework.

Explore Learning Paths →

GROW — Coaching & Leadership

Individual coaching, group coaching, leadership development, workforce development, and organizational consulting.

Evolve and GROW →

HEAL — Wellness & Sustainability

Through the Alchemized Wellness™ framework, exploring interconnected dimensions of well-being: emotional regulation, mindfulness, reflective practice, stress recovery, and leadership sustainability.

Alchemize Wellness for future generations →

Ecosystem Principles

People may enter anywhere
Movement is non-linear
Learning without healing is incomplete
Growth without connection is unsustainable
Capacity is built over time, not extracted
Belonging is as important as skill

Our signature

The Signature Trauma-Aware Approach™

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The Pathway to HOPE™ is Alchemize HOPE's signature Trauma-Aware Approach™ in action. Trauma-informed care helps us understand what trauma is and why it matters; the Trauma-Aware Approach™ focuses on how we live and practice those principles in everyday interactions, relationships, and systems — with embodiment, awareness, and action.

Curiosity before judgment — “What happened?” and “What's happening?”
Connection before correction
Responding rather than reacting
Brave spaces — honest, respectful, human
Person-driven, always
Multiple pathways. Meaningful choice.

Beyond Trauma-Informed Care

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Trauma-informed care helps us understand what trauma is and why it matters. Alchemize HOPE's signature Trauma-Aware Approach™ — the Pathway to HOPE™ — focuses on how we live and practice those principles in everyday interactions, relationships, and systems, with embodiment, awareness, and action. At Alchemize HOPE, we believe that suicide and substance use are languages of pain, survival skills, and trauma reactions. Our mission is to bring awareness, change conversations, and promote responses of HOPE rather than fear.

About · The Foundation

Conditions That Shape Human Potential™

Before we ask what a person should change, we become curious about the conditions surrounding them.

The foundation

Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ — In Depth

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Every pathway in this ecosystem stands on the same foundation: the conditions of a person's life. The Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ name the circumstances that support — or limit — what a person, family, organization, or community can do next. They surface in our lessons, across all 10 dimensions of wellness, and in our organizational work.

Opportunity & Financial Stability

Examples to explore: income, employment, economic opportunities, and access to the resources that make choice possible.

Home, Safety & Environment

Examples to explore: housing, transportation, green space, and community safety.

Learning & Growth

Examples to explore: education, opportunity, and the learning environments people grow up and work in.

Daily Needs & Nourishment

Examples to explore: food access, daily necessities, rest, and care.

Relationships & Belonging

Examples to explore: support, social connections, exclusion, and inclusion.

Health, Healing & Support

Examples to explore: healthcare, autonomy, services, and protective supports.

The social determinants of health (SDOH) belong within this wider framework — they are not a synonym for all of it. Beyond SDOH, the Conditions also ask us to consider lived experiences and trauma, protective experiences, systemic inequalities, culture and identity, history, biology, neurodiversity, meaning and purpose, agency, opportunity, and community resources.

This is why our first move is curiosity. Instead of treating a person's actions as an isolated problem, we ask: What happened? What's happening? What might be contributing — and what conditions may need to change? The answers shape which pathway a person enters, and what support actually helps. See the Conditions at work in the and in how organizations redesign their systems in .

About · Ways to Travel

Ways to Travel the Pathway

The four pathways are entry points, not steps. These routes show how people combine them — yours can look entirely different.

Learning routes

Ways to Travel the Pathway

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The four pathways are entry points, not steps — and learning runs through all of them. These routes are examples of how people combine pathways; yours can look entirely different.

Foundations Route

Begin with the Trauma-Aware Approach™ and the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ — the shared language of the whole ecosystem.

Reflective Practice Route

Pair learning with reflection: self-awareness, the 10 Dimensions of Wellness, and space to notice your own patterns and possibilities.

Workforce & Systems Route

For teams and organizations: workforce wellness learning, coaching, and technical assistance that redesign the conditions people work in.

Success Paths

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Structured journeys through the ecosystem are being designed now. Each will be announced here when it is ready — no dates promised, just honest progress.

Success Path™

Discovery → learning → practice → achievement → leadership → influence → goals and legacy.

Coming Soon

Growth Path™

Progressive individual and professional development through reflection and action.

Coming Soon

Ambassador Pathways™

Community leadership, participation, HUB building, and mentorship.

Coming Soon

Ambassador HUB Ecosystem™

Community-based networks and chapter development, grown HUB by HUB.

Coming Soon

Certification Ecosystem™

Core, specialist, Trainer/Coach/TA, and Master Trainer paths — each offering verified before it opens.

Coming Soon

Specialized Pathways

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Planned branches of the Pathway to HOPE™ for specific communities and callings. All are in planning — marked here so you can see where the ecosystem is growing.

Community & Human Development

For neighborhoods, networks, and the people building community from the inside.

Coming Soon

Leadership & Workforce

For leaders and teams strengthening culture, capacity, and sustainable contribution.

Coming Soon

Criminal Justice & Reentry

Shaped with and for people and systems touched by criminal justice and reentry — connected to Beyond the Bars™.

Coming Soon

Clinical & Helping Professions

For clinicians, peers, and helping professionals practicing trauma-aware care.

Coming Soon

Ambassador & HUB Development

For Ambassadors building local and virtual HUB communities.

Coming Soon

Facilitator, Trainer & Coach Development

For the facilitators, trainers, and coaches who carry this work into new rooms.

Coming Soon

Start anywhere

Where Would You Like to Begin?

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There is no required order and no wrong door. Choose the beginning that fits where you are today — and move between pathways whenever you like.

CONNECT

Find Community

Belonging is where many journeys begin. CONNECT gathers the communities, gatherings, and people of Alchemize HOPE — online, in person, and out in the world.

LEARN

Build Knowledge

Understanding changes everything. LEARN is home to the Alchemize HOPE Institute — trainings, microlearning, and a growing Learning Library built on the Trauma-Aware Approach™.

GROW

Strengthen My Capacity

Knowledge becomes lived practice here. GROW offers coaching, consulting, and technical assistance for individuals, teams, leaders, and whole organizations.

HEAL

Explore My Wellness

Wellness is whole-person. HEAL explores the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ — and the conditions shaping each one — at your own pace, with meaningful choice.

About · The Departments

The AWARE Departments

Advocacy · Wellness · Ambassadors · Redesigning Systems · Education — five interconnected departments, one mission.

The AWARE Departments

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The work of Alchemize HOPE reaches the world through five interconnected departments. AWARE is not the name of the organization — it names the five departments through which learning becomes action: Advocacy · Wellness · Ambassadors · Redesigning Systems · Education. They are not steps; they reinforce one another across the ecosystem.

AWARE Echo Systems™ diagram — where awareness echoes into action: five departments (Advocacy, Wellness, Ambassadors, Redesigning Systems, Education) around one mission, creating ripple effects from stronger individuals to a more hopeful world

Advocacy

Elevating voices, strengthening participation, increasing access, addressing barriers, and helping individuals and communities influence the systems that affect their lives.

Wellness

Expanding access to whole-person and whole-community wellness opportunities that honor meaningful choice and recognize the many conditions influencing health and human potential.

The Wellness department carries Alchemized Wellness™ — our whole-person, whole-community framework for well-being — into every corner of the ecosystem.

Ambassadors

Developing people who carry HOPE into their families, workplaces, communities, organizations, and networks — turning ideas into relationships, relationships into communities, and communities into movements.

Redesigning Systems

Working with organizations, leaders, communities, and partners to examine structures, policies, practices, and environments that may unintentionally reproduce the very challenges they are attempting to solve.

Education

Training, professional development, curriculum, coaching, technical assistance, and learning opportunities that turn awareness into sustainable practice.

About · The People

Meet the Team

The people behind Alchemize HOPE Institute — founder Angel Prater and the team growing around her.

Angel Prater, founder of Alchemize HOPE Institute

About Angel Prater

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Angel Prater is the founder of Alchemize HOPE and a national trainer, consultant, and systems change advocate. Across a career of roughly 30 years, she has worked in behavioral health, social services, peer support, crisis response, nonprofit leadership, and workforce development — always with the same conviction: people are often expected to change while the conditions surrounding them remain the same. Angel founded Alchemize HOPE to help change that conversation.

She founded Alchemize HOPE (formerly Community Connections LLC) and co-created the David Romprey Oregon Warmline, recognized by SAMHSA as a best practice, which grew to roughly 65,000 calls a year by 2016 and secured state legislative funding. As Executive Director of FolkTime, she built its training center — raising $78K in its first nine months and $150K+ in year two — and established Oregon's first IPS HUB.

For more than 25 years, Angel has also trained within criminal justice and corrections, including facilitating the Oregon State Prison Lakota Club MAPs program and contributing to Oregon's Criminal Justice Reinvestment Initiative, which informed HB 3194. Her bridge-building perspective is lived as well as professional — it is what makes rooms trust her.

Angel Prater, CEO/Founder — portrait by a fountain
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder — portrait on a boat
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder — standing in a lake at sunset with her arms raised
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder — holding pink roses
Angel Prater, CEO/Founder
Graphic: 'Stay Heart-Centered. Focused on Purpose.' The trap of profit over purpose set against the path of purpose over profit, around a heart-centered tree of life — create amazing profits, expand the purpose, change the world. Signed Alchemize HOPE, Enterprise Ecosystem™

Angel's philosophy in one picture: stay heart-centered, stay purpose-driven. Graphic © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Awards & Recognition

  • 2017 — Clackamas County Super-Heart Hero
  • 2016 — Oregon Rural Health Hero of the Year
  • 2011 — Clifford W. Beers Award
  • 2010 — State of Oregon DHS Addictions and Mental Health Award of Excellence
  • 2006 — Garrett Smith Memorial Award
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The Pathway to HOPE™ — In Brief

The Pathway to HOPE™ is a non-linear ecosystem that supports learning, connection, growth, and healing through four entry points — CONNECT, LEARN, GROW, and HEAL. People may enter wherever they are and move between pathways as their own journey unfolds; there is no straight line, and no wrong door.

More of the Team

The team is growing — future team members will be introduced here, alongside Angel and Mabvaneyi.

Mabvaneyi Tangwena

Mabvaneyi Tangwena is a public health leader and global health strategist with more than a decade of experience strengthening health systems and expanding integrated care across Sub-Saharan Africa. As a Public Health Officer with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care in Chipinge District, he helped raise health service delivery coverage from 30% to 92%, integrated mental health and non-communicable disease care into HIV/TB services, and built a data verification team that drove program data bias to near zero. As an HIV/AIDS Specialist with the Zimbabwe Technical Assistance, Training and Education Centre for Health, his coaching and mentorship lifted provincial clinical knowledge from 38% to 80% and patient retention on treatment from 84% to 98%; across his career he has trained and mentored more than 100 healthcare workers in quality improvement and telehealth.

Mabvaneyi holds a Master of Global Management in Digital Transformation from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, Arizona (2026), an Advanced Master in Integrative Medicine from TECH University in Spain, a Master of Public Health from Africa University in Zimbabwe, and a Bachelor of Science in HIV/AIDS Management and Community Development from Chinhoyi University of Technology, together with a Diploma in Nursing. He also serves as an Organizational Consultant with Lifekind Health Challenge Lab in Scottsdale, Arizona, and supports the early establishment, strategic development, and operations of Alchemize HOPE. He speaks English and Shona fluently, with conversational Ndebele.

CONNECT · Belonging & Community

CONNECT — Belonging & Community

CONNECT is the Pathway to HOPE™ entry point for belonging and community — all the communities you can access, gathered in one place: online, in person, and out in the world.

Our Communities

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Free Hugs Global Initiative — Facebook Group

Angel's public Facebook group for TraumaAWAREness and suicide prevention — about 821 members sharing hugs, hope, and honest conversation.

Join the Facebook Group

Alchemize HOPE Institute — Facebook & Instagram

Follow the Institute for trainings, events, and HOPE in the world — and follow Angel's own pages for the day-to-day journey.

S.L.O.P. — Suicide as a Language of Pain

Angel's survivors-by-survivors community, founded in 2010: a brave, judgment-free space to talk about pain and suicide. SLOP is an initiative of Alchemize HOPE, bringing awareness around the need for confidential, brave, and safe spaces for survivors, by survivors, and SLOP groups are currently on pause.

More Community Spaces

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As the CONNECT ecosystem grows, it will hold community discussion groups, peer connection spaces, ambassador communities, mastermind groups, and learning cohorts — some free and open, others private and connected to trainings or coaching.

Coming Soon These community spaces are coming soon — the established communities above are open now.

Connect Communities Coming Soon

Ambassadors Community

A Facebook community for Alchemize HOPE ambassadors is planned — a place to connect, share the mission, and carry HOPE into more communities.

Want to carry HOPE into your own community? Start at the Ambassador HUB.

Coming Soon

Learning Community

A Facebook community for learning together is planned — discussion, resources, and shared growth along the Pathway to HOPE™.

Coming Soon

Start with a conversation

Book a 30-minute consultation with Angel Prater and find your place in the Pathway to HOPE™.

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HUBs, Events & Partners

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Ambassador HUBs

Ambassador HUBs are the local and virtual communities where CONNECT comes to life — people gathering to connect, learn, collaborate, share resources, and expand wellness opportunities where they live.

Coming Soon The Ambassador HUB network is being built.

Events & Gatherings

Connection happens in person, too. Angel and the Free Hugs crew gather at Champions for the Homeless events at St. Vincent de Paul, the CareOregon Starlight Parade, and Hands Across the Bridge in Portland, Oregon.

Partner Participation

Organizations and communities partner with Alchemize HOPE — hosting Free Hugs, welcoming Ambassadors, and weaving the Pathway to HOPE™ into their own gatherings and programs.

CONNECT Across the Ecosystem

Community grows stronger when it connects. The AWARE Ambassadors department grows these communities, while Wellness and Advocacy shape how they gather — explore all five departments on The AWARE Departments page. Learning lives here, too: visit the Learning Library in LEARN, deepen your wellness in HEAL, or build your capacity to lead community in GROW.

LEARN · Alchemize HOPE Institute

LEARN — Education that moves awareness into action.

The Alchemize HOPE Institute provides training experiences designed to help individuals and organizations deepen awareness and implement trauma-aware practices. Everything here begins with one blueprint: the Trauma-Aware Approach™, the core training the whole of Alchemize HOPE is built from.

Quote graphic: “Have you ever noticed most people try to change behavior without understanding what created it? That's what we do differently. We help people and organizations transform from the inside out.” — Alchemize HOPE, signed with the Alchemize HOPE sun-and-path logo

The Blueprint · The Core Training

The Trauma-Aware Approach™

The Trauma-Aware Approach™ is the blueprint training of Alchemize HOPE — the core training that everything else is built from. Every signature training, every training still to come, and every learning and coaching path on this page grows out of this foundation: nervous system awareness, recognizing activation, and creating brave space where people can learn, heal, and lead.

Wondering how it differs from trauma-informed care? Trauma-Informed Care addresses the What and the Why — the Trauma-Aware Approach™ focuses on the How. Angel's explainer (© 2024 Alchemize HOPE) lays it out in full:

Download: The Difference Between Trauma-Informed Care and the Trauma-Aware Approach™ (PDF)

Available — woven through the signature trainings below, and at the heart of the Pathway to HOPE™. Start here; everything that follows builds on it.

Training Formats

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Live In-Person Training

Interactive workshops delivered at conferences, organizations, and events.

Live Online Training

Instructor-led virtual training sessions.

Hybrid Training

Facilitator online while participants gather in a shared location.

Customized Training

Tailored training for agency staff and for public events, shaped to your culture and goals.

Trauma Aware Retreats

Immersive retreat experiences for deeper practice, reflection, and renewal.

Pre-Built Online Courses

Self-paced, on-demand courses and certification pathways.

Coming Soon

Signature Trainings

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Built on the blueprint. Each of these trainings carries the Trauma-Aware Approach™ — the core above — into a specific room, role, and setting.

Cultivating Safety — A Person-Centered System Approach™

A 3-day training (9am–5pm, 24 CEUs) in trauma-informed crisis prevention and de-escalation, applied to unhoused, substance-use, and mental-health service cultures, led by facilitators with 25+ years of experience.

  • 3 days · 9am–5pm
  • 24 CEUs
  • Crisis prevention & de-escalation

Trauma-Aware Peer Supervision for Supervisors, Peers, and Allies™

Covering peer support best practices, supervision, co-optation, and documentation — for the people who support the supporters.

  • Peer support best practices
  • Supervision & co-optation
  • Documentation

An Open Invitation

Any Training. Any Audience. Any Organization.

Don't see the exact training your team needs? Angel can customize any training — any topic, any audience, any organization — shaping the content, the format, and the depth around your people, your culture, and your goals. If your organization needs it, we can build it together.

Book a Consultation

More Trainings Coming Soon

The Sustainable Frontline Practitioner™

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The Resilient Changemaker™

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More Trainings on the Way

Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ — Training

A training built on the framework beneath the blueprint: the conditions — lived experience, culture, environments, economic opportunity, and the social determinants of health — that shape what people can do, choose, and become.

Coming Soon

Alchemized Wellness™ — Training

A training that teaches the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ as one interconnected whole — how each dimension influences the others, and how to attend to the conditions shaping well-being, not just the symptoms.

Coming Soon

A large training class in a wood-beamed hall in Eugene, Oregon, nearly everyone wearing FREE HUGS shirts, Angel Prater at the center
A training class in Eugene, Oregon — the whole class in FREE HUGS shirts

Bring a training to your organization

Tell us about your team and goals, and we'll shape the right format together.

Request Training

The Learning Library

Every Framework Generates Lessons

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The Learning Library gathers Alchemize HOPE lessons in every format — introductory lessons, microlearning, training modules, workshops, courses, workbooks, reflective exercises, and technical assistance tools. CEUs apply only where a training already states them (for example, 24 CEUs for Cultivating Safety above). Categories open as they are built.

Conditions That Shape Human Potential™

Below the surface · social determinants of health · lived experience · protective factors · culture · economic opportunity · environments.

Coming Soon

Trauma-Aware Approach™

Nervous system awareness · activation · creating brave space — the foundation of our signature trainings.

Available — through the signature trainings above.

Self-Awareness & Reflective Practice

Beliefs, values, emotions, behaviors · Comfort–Stretch–SPIKE · responding versus reacting.

Coming Soon

Relationships & Connection

Trust, boundaries, listening with intention, and our Relationship Compass.

Coming Soon

Alchemized Wellness™

Ten introductory lessons — one for each dimension — plus deeper practical studies.

Growth & Change

The Alchemizing Process™ · ATAC™ · See–Feel–Need · See–Do–Get.

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Workforce & Systems

Burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, retention, leadership, and redesign.

Coming Soon

Community & Leadership

Ambassador pathways, HUB development, advocacy, and sustainable partnerships.

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More Ways to Learn

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Microlearning

Short, focused lessons you can fit into a real day — one idea, one practice, one step at a time.

Coming Soon

Workforce Wellness

Learning that supports the people doing the work — woven through our workforce trainings, and connected to Occupational Wellness in HEAL and workforce technical assistance in GROW.

Train-the-Trainer™

A pathway for facilitators who want to carry the Trauma-Aware Approach™ into their own rooms and organizations.

Coming Soon

LEARN Across the Ecosystem

Learning is an AWARE Education department contribution — and it travels. Practice what you learn in community through CONNECT, apply it with coaching and technical assistance in GROW, and reflect on your own wellness in HEAL.

Alchemized Wellness™ · Learning & Coaching Paths

Learn and Explore Every Dimension

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Alchemized Wellness™ carries learning and coaching paths of its own — one for each of the 10 Dimensions of Wellness — for learning and exploring the dimension that is calling for your attention. The paths themselves are being built; each one below opens that dimension's full detail on HEAL today.

1. Physical Wellness

Care for your body.

Coming Soon

2. Emotional Wellness

Understand your emotions.

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3. Intellectual Wellness

Explore and learn.

Coming Soon

4. Social Wellness

Cultivate belonging.

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5. Spiritual Wellness

Find meaning and purpose.

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6. Occupational Wellness

Contribute with purpose.

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7. Financial Wellness

Strengthen stability.

Coming Soon

8. Environmental Wellness

Nurture your surroundings.

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9. Cultural Wellness

Honor identity and heritage.

Coming Soon

10. Sexual Wellness

Embrace safety and agency.

Coming Soon

The Coaching Side Lives in GROW

Prefer to explore a dimension with a coach beside you? The coaching side of the Alchemized Wellness™ paths — coaching and technical assistance that turns learning into lived practice — lives in GROW.

GROW · Coaching & Technical Assistance

GROW — Turning knowledge into lived practice.

Growth occurs when knowledge becomes lived practice — in real workplaces, real teams, and real lives.

Coaching

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Coaching services help individuals and leaders apply trauma-aware principles in real-world environments.

  • 1:1 coaching
  • Group coaching
  • Leadership coaching & development
  • Workforce development
  • Organizational coaching & consulting

Focus areas: workplace culture, staff wellness, leadership development, and trauma-aware organizational systems.

Technical Assistance

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Technical assistance helps organizations embed trauma-aware principles into policies, procedures, and practices.

  • HR support
  • Policies & procedures
  • Performance evaluation
  • Agency evaluation
  • Program evaluation

Become an Ambassador

The Ambassador Program offers pathways to grow with the Alchemize HOPE ecosystem — as a coach, a train-the-trainer, a technical assistance provider, an affiliate marketer, or a TA training hub. Ambassadors are individuals, community leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, advocates, coaches, trainers, and people with lived experience who carry HOPE into the places where they already have relationships, trust, and influence.

Ambassador HUBs create local and virtual communities where people can connect, learn, collaborate, share resources, expand wellness opportunities, and bring the Pathway to HOPE™ to life. One person can create a ripple. Connected people can create a movement.

Coach
Train-the-Trainer
Technical Assistance Provider
Affiliate Marketer
TA Training Hub

Start with a conversation

Schedule a consultation to explore coaching, technical assistance, or the Ambassador Program.

Schedule Consultation

Leadership & Systems Redesign

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Leadership Development

Leaders set the conditions everyone else works in. Leadership coaching and development through GROW helps leaders practice trauma-aware leadership — awareness, embodiment, and action — in the rooms where culture is made.

Start with a consultation

Systems Redesign

GROW is where the AWARE Redesigning Systems department meets your organization: examining structures, policies, practices, and environments — the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ at work — and redesigning them with the people who live in them.

Graphic: 'The Problem — our systems are siloed. People are not.' Cracked stone blocks labeled healthcare, behavioral health, education, business & workplace, criminal justice, social services, housing & homelessness, nonprofits, faith communities, families & community, and technology, opening onto a sunrise path — 'It's time to connect the dots. It's time to change lives.' — Alchemize HOPE

Systems are siloed — people are not. Why GROW redesigns systems with the people who live in them. Graphic © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Partner With Alchemize HOPE

Organizations, agencies, and community partners: if you are exploring coaching, consulting, technical assistance, or a training partnership, begin with a conversation. Tell Angel about your team, your goals, and the conditions you are working in — together we will find the right next step on the Pathway to HOPE™.

Email Angel@A-HOPEinstitute.com

GROW Across the Ecosystem

Capacity grows in connection. Build the knowledge base in LEARN's Learning Library, practice in community through CONNECT, and sustain the people doing the work through HEAL. The AWARE Wellness department's contributions run through all of it.

HEAL · Wellness & Sustainability

HEAL — Wellness & Sustainability

HEAL is the Pathway to HOPE™ entry point for wellness and sustainability — built around Alchemized Wellness™ and the many ways people and communities restore, recover, and thrive.

Alchemized Wellness™

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Wellness is more than one part of a person. Alchemized Wellness™ is a whole-person and whole-community framework that recognizes thriving is influenced by far more than physical or mental health alone — our bodies, minds, relationships, environments, finances, opportunities, sense of purpose, connection, and belonging all play a part.

Whole Person, Whole Community

Rather than assuming one pathway, product, service, or intervention works for everyone, Alchemized Wellness™ honors meaningful choices — people discover what supports their own wellness.

Beyond Symptoms

We look beyond symptoms toward the broader conditions influencing human potential — and work to transform those conditions whenever possible, not just help people survive them.

The HEAL Entry Point

Alchemized Wellness™ lives in the HEAL entry point of the Pathway to HOPE™: emotional regulation, mindfulness, reflective practice, stress recovery, and leadership sustainability.

FROM SURVIVING · TO STABILIZING · TO GROWING · TO THRIVING

Alchemized Wellness™ poster — The Integrated Ecosystem of Well-Being: a gold lotus whose petals hold the dimensions of well-being, signed with the Alchemize HOPE sun-and-path logo

Healing Is More Than What Happens Within Us. It Is Also About What Happens Around Us.

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Discover the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™

Wellness is not one-dimensional. Neither is healing.

Every aspect of our lives is interconnected. Our physical health influences our emotions. Our financial circumstances can affect our sense of safety. Our relationships shape how we experience connection and belonging. Our environments, cultures, opportunities, and lived experiences influence how we think, feel, respond, and navigate the world.

At Alchemize HOPE, we recognize that lasting wellness requires looking beyond symptoms, behaviors, and mindset to understand the deeper conditions shaping human potential.

Through Alchemized Wellness™, we explore 10 interconnected dimensions that influence our individual, relational, professional, organizational, and community well-being.

These dimensions are not separate boxes to check. They are connected parts of the human experience, continually influencing one another.

You don't have to have everything figured out to begin healing.

Healing begins with awareness, curiosity, connection, and discovering what may be possible.

Explore the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™

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Select a dimension to open its full description, what it explores, its invitation to reflect, and its pathway toward healing.

The Free Alchemized Wellness™ Self-Reflection Tool

A free Alchemized Wellness™ Self-Reflection Tool that invites you to explore all 10 dimensions, identify strengths and opportunities, and choose where you would like to begin — an entry point into Alchemize HOPE courses, coaching, community, and other offerings.

Coming Soon

This is the reflection named below as the Pathway to HOPE™ Reflection & Discovery Assessment.

The context around every dimension

The Conditions Around Our Wellness

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The 10 dimensions do not float free of real life. Each one is shaped by the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ — the circumstances surrounding a person, including the social determinants of health (SDOH): housing, food access, work, transportation, safety, and access to care. The Conditions framework is wider than SDOH alone — it also holds lived experience, culture and identity, relationships and belonging, opportunity, and the supports around us.

So when a dimension feels out of reach, the most useful question is often not “What's wrong?” but “What happened — and what's happening?” Sometimes what needs attention is a practice; sometimes it is a condition.

How the 10 Dimensions Work Together

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Wellness Is Interconnected. Healing Can Be, Too.

Imagine someone experiencing exhaustion, difficulty concentrating, increased emotional activation, and tension in their relationships.

On the surface, these experiences might be interpreted as problems with mindset, motivation, attitude, or emotional regulation.

But what happens when we become curious about what lies beneath?

Perhaps this person is experiencing financial insecurity, working multiple jobs, navigating unsafe housing conditions, lacking restorative sleep, or carrying the effects of previous trauma.

What appears to be an individual challenge may actually involve several interconnected dimensions of wellness.

This is why we look beyond the surface.

Through Alchemized Wellness™, we recognize that lasting change may require attending not only to what a person thinks or feels but also to the circumstances and systems influencing their experiences.

We explore the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™, including the social determinants of health, to better understand what supports or limits opportunities for well-being.

Rather than asking only, "What's wrong?" we become curious about:

  • What happened, or what is happening?
  • What might be contributing to this experience?
  • Which areas of wellness are being affected?
  • What strengths, supports, and resources already exist?
  • What conditions may need to change?
  • What possibilities for healing, growth, and connection can we begin to explore?

Healing does not happen in isolation. It is influenced by the relationships, resources, opportunities, and environments that surround us.

Your Pathway to HOPE™

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CONNECT • LEARN • GROW • HEAL

The 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ are woven throughout our signature Pathway to HOPE™.

CONNECT

Build connection with yourself, others, and the supports and resources that matter.

LEARN

Deepen self-awareness and understanding of your experiences, patterns, wellness needs, and the conditions influencing your life.

GROW

Explore possibilities, practice new approaches, strengthen resources, and begin making intentional changes.

HEAL

Integrate what you discover into everyday life, strengthen the dimensions of wellness that need attention, and continue creating the conditions for sustainable well-being.

Healing is not a finish line. It is an ongoing, evolving journey that may include reconnecting, relearning, growing, and discovering new possibilities.

Begin Your Alchemized Wellness™ Journey

What if improving your well-being started with becoming curious about the whole of your life—not just one part?

You don't need to address all 10 dimensions at once.

Start by exploring where you feel supported, where you experience challenges, and what might help you move toward greater balance, connection, and fulfillment.

Discover what's shaping your wellness. Explore what's possible. Begin your Pathway to HOPE™.

Free Resources

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Coming Soon Free resources — hopeful tools, guides, and downloads from Alchemize HOPE — are being gathered for this space.

Personal Free Assessments

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Pathway to HOPE™ Reflection & Discovery Assessment

Alchemize HOPE's personal reflection and discovery assessment — a starting point for noticing where you are on your own pathway, and what HOPE could look like next.

Coming Soon Online access to the assessment is on its way.

Three Simple Steps – Core 3 Health

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Transform your wellness routine with three simple steps. Core 3 Health is Angel's carefully curated trio, designed to uplift your body's vitality — helping you feel restored, rebuilt, and reset every day.

Isotonix OPC-3

Support your immune system and boost your energy levels.

Isotonix Magnesium

Essential for muscle relaxation and overall calmness.

Prime NAD+

Enhance your cellular health and longevity.

RESTORED · REBUILT · RESET

Take the free 60-second health quiz

It's time to put your health as a top priority. Take the free 60-second quiz, or explore Angel's Market America page.

Take the free 60-second health quiz Angel's Market America page

Partnering Agencies

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Healing happens in community. Angel and Alchemize HOPE show up alongside partners who share the mission — here are the agencies already woven into this work.

St. Vincent de Paul — Champions for the Homeless

Angel brings Free Hugs to Champions for the Homeless events at St. Vincent de Paul a few times a year, alongside the Nick Lowery Youth Foundation — sharing hugs, hope, and conversation with everyone who comes through the doors.

CareOregon

Angel offered Free HUGS at the CareOregon Starlight Parade — consent-first connection, out in the community, one hug at a time.

Hands Across the Bridge

The Free Hugs crew brings Free Hugs to Hands Across the Bridge in Portland, Oregon — gathering on the bridge in a spirit of hope and community.

handsacrossthebridge.org

Ascending Flow

An affiliate and ambassador partner community. Angel joins Ascending Flow gatherings to share Free Hugs — connection, compassion, and HOPE out in the world.

ascendingflow.org

Other Healing Opportunities

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Coming Soon More healing opportunities — gatherings, practices, and partner offerings — will be shared here as they are established.

Begin your HEAL journey with a conversation

Book a 30-minute consultation with Angel Prater and explore what wellness and sustainability could look like for you, your team, or your community.

Book a Consultation

HEAL Across the Ecosystem

Alchemized Wellness™ is carried by the AWARE Wellness department into every corner of the ecosystem. Deepen each dimension with lessons from the Learning Library in LEARN, find movement and support in community through CONNECT, and build workplace wellness with coaching and technical assistance in GROW.

Alchemize HOPE — Connect • Learn • Grow • Heal

Initiatives

The Alchemize HOPE Global Initiatives are intentional. We aim to CONNECT, LEARN, GROW, and HEAL together — each initiative has its own page, gathered here.

Alchemize HOPE Global Initiatives

Connection in Action

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At Alchemize HOPE, we believe that suicide and substance use are languages of pain, survival skills, and trauma reactions. Our mission is to bring awareness, change conversations, and promote responses of HOPE rather than fear.

Free HUGS is the first of the Alchemize HOPE initiatives — not the last. This hub is built to expand as each new initiative takes shape. Heal Trauma, Be Trauma-Aware.

Free HUGS

'You Have Been Hugged' heart sticker 'You Have Been Hugged' sticker — gold hands holding a blue heart

Connecting individuals through awareness, compassion and HOPE — learning through awareness, growing through practicing hope, and healing the world one hug at a time. Always consent-first.

S.L.O.P.™ — Suicide as a Language of Pain

S.L.O.P. — Suicide as a Language of Pain badge

An initiative of Alchemize HOPE, bringing awareness around the need for confidential, brave, and safe spaces for survivors, by survivors. SLOP groups are on pause right now, but SLOP is never forgotten.

Beyond the Bars™

Beyond the Bars™ emblem — Purpose and Reentry Initiatives

A people-centered reentry and opportunity initiative that recognizes identity, humanity and potential beyond incarceration or justice-system involvement.

Coming Soon

Beyond the Uniform™

Beyond the Uniform™ emblem — a service member's helmet beneath the flag, a lighthouse, and a winding golden path: Same Strength. New Mission.

A veteran- and military-family-centered initiative that honors service while recognizing the whole person beyond a uniform, a role, or a chapter of life.

Coming Soon

Say Their Name™

Say Their Name™ emblem — a white dove carrying a golden olive branch, rising over clouds within a gold and sapphire medallion

A remembrance, visibility and connection initiative honoring individuals and supporting the people who carry love, grief, unanswered questions or uncertainty.

Coming Soon

Ambassador HUB

Become an Ambassador

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Ambassadors are individuals, community leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, advocates, coaches, trainers, and people with lived experience who carry HOPE into the places where they already have relationships, trust, and influence. Ambassador HUBs create local and virtual communities where people can connect, learn, collaborate, share resources, expand wellness opportunities, and bring the Pathway to HOPE™ to life.

Ready to carry HOPE into your community?

One person can create a ripple. Connected people can create a movement.

Coming Soon The Ambassador HUB is being built. When it opens, this is where you will find how to become an ambassador, ambassador resources, and the local and virtual HUB communities. Until then, the first step is a conversation — book a 30-minute consultation with Angel.

The initiatives live inside the Pathway to HOPE™

Free HUGS begins in CONNECT — community and belonging. SLOP™ grows from the same survivor-led roots, and Beyond the Bars™ and Beyond the Uniform™ each touch all four pathways. Keep exploring the ecosystem:

Initiative One · Alchemize HOPE Global Initiatives

Free HUGS

Healing the world one hug at a time — connection, awareness, and HOPE, offered always with consent.

The Free HUGS Initiative

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The Free HUGS Initiative is intended to connect individuals, learn through awareness, grow through practicing hope, and heal the world one hug at a time.

CONNECT

Individuals through awareness, compassion and HOPE.

LEARN

About Trauma, the Trauma-Aware Approach — Alchemize HOPE's “Pathway to HOPE” — and Suicide as a Language of Pain (SLOP™).

GROW

Through practicing HOPEful responses.

HEAL

The world one hug at a time.

Where Free HUGS lives in the ecosystem: Free HUGS begins in CONNECT — community and belonging. It is carried by the AWARE Ambassadors department, and it nourishes whole-person Wellness wherever it goes.

Consent First, Always

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Free Hugs is an invitation, never an expectation. A hug is always optional, and we ask before any physical contact. A smile, a conversation, a wave, or choosing to pass by are equally welcome — we honor each person's boundaries.

Our merchandise inspires HOPE and Healing, raises awareness, and starts meaningful conversations — and it respects those who do not want physical hugs with 'you've been hugged' messages, showing compassion and thoughtfulness.

'You Have Been Hugged' heart sticker — a consent-friendly way to share a hug 'You Have Been Hugged' sticker — gold hands holding a blue heart, a consent-friendly way to share a hug

Our “You Have Been Hugged” stickers — tap a sticker to order yours from the Shop.

Watch Free HUGS in Action

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Angel offering Free HUGS at the CareOregon Starlight Parade. Video © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Angel sharing a hug at an outdoor community event. Video © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

Angel Prater speaking at a Free Hugs event, wearing a FREE HUGS shirt
Angel speaking at a Free Hugs event.
Cover of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul View of the Possible Annual Report 2026, showing Angel hugging a community member
Angel's Free Hugs work is featured on the cover of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul “View of the Possible” Annual Report 2026.
Read the St. Vincent de Paul Annual Report — read more about the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Nick Lowery's Champions for the Homeless.

Champions for the Homeless — Free Hugs at St. Vincent de Paul

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Angel brings Free Hugs to Champions for the Homeless events at St. Vincent de Paul a few times a year, alongside the Nick Lowery Youth Foundation — sharing hugs, hope, and conversation with everyone who comes through the doors.

Angel Prater in a FREE HUGS shirt with a group under a Nick Lowery Youth Foundation banner Angel Prater in a FREE HUGS shirt with two players by a Christmas tree at a Champions for the Homeless event Angel Prater hugging a player under the St. Vincent de Paul Feed. Clothe. House. sign Angel Prater at a signing table at a Champions for the Homeless event

Did you know a 20-second hug can transform lives?

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The 20-Second Hug Benefits

Emotional Bonding — releases oxytocin, fostering connection and trust.

Reduces Stress — lowers cortisol, promoting relaxation.

Improves Mood — natural release of oxytocin and serotonin, combating depression and anxiety.

Lowers Blood Pressure — stimulates touch receptors, decreasing heart rate.

Boosts Immune System — reduces stress, promoting overall well-being.

Increases Happiness — elevates serotonin levels, enhancing joy.

Strengthens Relationships — reinforces emotional and physical connections.

Hugging Across Cultures: A Global Perspective

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Every culture — and every person — relates to touch differently. The perspectives below are offered as general discussion prompts for curiosity and conversation, never as fixed rules about any culture or any person. What leads, always, is the individual in front of you: their preferences, their boundaries, and their consent.

Western Societies

Common as a greeting among friends, open expression.

Eastern Cultures

Reserved for close family, private approach.

Latin America

Integral part of daily interactions, signifies warmth.

Middle East

Less common in public, reflects norms around personal space.

Scandinavian

More reserved, used in intimate settings.

Adapting to Change: Hugging in the Era of Social Distancing

Even with physical separation, innovative solutions like virtual hugs and hug curtains keep the essence of hugging alive, maintaining bonds and highlighting the importance of touch.

A virtual hug is symbolic support — a way of saying “I'm here, and you matter” across any distance. It never substitutes for consent, and it never has to: connection leads, in whatever form a person welcomes it.

HUGS Heal

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HUGS Heal is the educational heart of the Free HUGS movement: learning about safe human connection — what a hug can mean, the cultural context it happens in, and why autonomy and consent always come first.

Safe Human Connection

How connection supports healing — and how to offer it in ways that feel safe, welcomed, and freely chosen.

Cultural Context

Touch means different things in different cultures, families, and lives. HUGS Heal teaches curiosity about context — never assumptions.

Autonomy & Consent

Every person decides for their own body. Asking, listening, and honoring every answer — including “no” and “not today” — is the practice.

HUGS Heal lives at an intersection: it gathers community in CONNECT, supports whole-person wellness in HEAL, and teaches through LEARN.

What's the difference between trauma-informed and Alchemize HOPE's Trauma-Aware Approach™?

Trauma-Informed Care addresses the What and the Why — Alchemize HOPE's Trauma-Aware Approach™ focuses on the How. Angel's own explainer, What is the Difference Between Trauma-Informed Care and Alchemize HOPE's Signature Blueprint Formula Trauma-Aware Approach (© 2024 Alchemize HOPE), lays it out in full — take it with you:

Download: The Difference Between Trauma-Informed Care and the Trauma-Aware Approach™ (PDF)

Join the Free HUGS community

Join the public Facebook group “Free Hugs Global Initiative-by Angel Prater” (about 821 members) and follow along on TikTok @angelprater1971.

Join the Facebook Group

An initiative of Alchemize HOPE · In remembrance

S.L.O.P.™

Suicide as a Language of Pain — a HOPE-driven suicide support group: survivors, by survivors.

Suicide as a Language of Pain

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Round S.L.O.P. badge — Suicide as a Language of Pain Survivors Supporting Survivors™ — S.L.O.P. badge: three golden figures lifting a radiant blue heart

SLOP was Angel's first room — survivors leading survivors since 2010. A 90-minute support group facilitated by survivors, for survivors: a brave space to talk about pain and suicide without judgment, shame, or fear-based reactions.

SLOP is an initiative of Alchemize HOPE — a support group Angel founded in 2010, bringing awareness around the need for confidential, brave, and safe spaces for survivors, by survivors. SLOP groups are on pause right now, but SLOP is never forgotten.

Who, What, and Why

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Who

Anyone who has tried to complete suicide or lives with suicidal thoughts.

What

A 90-minute support group facilitated by survivors for survivors.

Why

Provides a brave space to cultivate a safe environment to discuss pain and suicide without judgment or shame.

Many survivors hide their experiences due to fear of being treated as fragile or being forced into unwanted treatments. SLOP offers a space for survivors of suicide and those struggling with suicidal ideation to share their experiences without fear-based reactions.

Start S.L.O.P. in your area

Want to learn more about how to start SLOP, a HOPE-driven suicide support group, in your area?

An Initiative of Alchemize HOPE · Purpose and Reentry

Beyond the Bars™

REENTRY • DIGNITY • HOPE

Your past is part of your story. It does not have to define your future.

A person is more than their past. A future of dignity, connection and purpose is possible.

Beyond the Bars emblem illustrating hope and an open path beyond incarceration

Beyond the Bars™

REENTRY • DIGNITY • HOPE

Beyond the Bars™ is an emerging Alchemize HOPE initiative exploring person-driven pathways for people navigating life after incarceration or criminal justice system involvement, along with families, communities and the people who support them. We envision connection, lived-experience mentorship, wellness, learning, purpose and opportunity — built with people whose lives are directly affected.

It grows out of Angel's own bridge-building work: for more than 25 years she has trained within criminal justice and corrections, including facilitating the Oregon State Prison Lakota Club MAPs program and contributing to Oregon's Criminal Justice Reinvestment Initiative.

Coming Soon Beyond the Bars™ has no launch date yet — join the waitlist and we'll be in touch as it opens.

Status: Coming Soon. This page describes an emerging initiative — not currently available reentry services. Everything below is the vision taking shape: planned possibilities, not published service commitments.

What It Is · Why It Exists · Who It's For

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What This Initiative Is

A people-centered reentry and opportunity initiative that recognizes identity, humanity and potential beyond incarceration or justice-system involvement.

Who This Is For

People navigating incarceration-related transitions, formerly incarcerated people, families, community mentors, service providers, employers and reentry partners.

Purpose

To make visible pathways to belonging, wellness, learning, meaningful opportunity and community connection for people navigating reentry.

Mission

To develop lived-experience-informed community connections, storytelling, mentorship and education—then grow practical reentry pathways in partnership with people directly affected and local organizations.

Why This Exists

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Reentry involves more than an individual decision to change. Housing, transportation, employment, income, family relationships, access to care, community perceptions and system policies can shape what is possible. A Trauma-Aware Approach™ invites us to look beneath behavior, honor strengths and lived experience, and address the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ alongside social determinants of health.

Beyond a Label

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A person is more than a record, a charge, or a label. Beyond the Bars™ holds stories of strengths, relationships, responsibilities and aspirations beyond justice involvement — the whole of a life, never reduced to one chapter of it.

Purpose and Reentry

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Reentry is practical as well as personal. This initiative explores community connections, navigation of barriers, work and economic opportunity, family reunification and wellness. It is a community being built toward those connections — not a placement service, a legal service, or a guarantee of employment.

Breaking the Chains — Stories Beyond Incarceration

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“Breaking the Chains” is a supporting story theme within Beyond the Bars™ — stories of breaking free from the weight of a label and reclaiming identity, dignity, and direction. It lives alongside this initiative as a theme for storytelling; it does not rename Beyond the Bars™, and it is not a separate program.

Future Learning and Mentorship

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Coming Soon

Future possibilities include peer mentoring, life-skills learning, and leadership development — explored only as scope and availability are approved. P2P (Prisoners to Purpose) is named here only as a possible future direction under Beyond the Bars™; it is not a current offering, and nothing about it is open yet.

Two Connected Branches: The Envisioned Model

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The Movement

Make dignity and HOPE visible through stories, awareness, listening, meaningful partnerships, advocacy and community connection.

A Voices of HOPE™ reentry story series may feature self-directed stories from people and loved ones affected by justice systems.

The Pathways

Explore future peer mentorship, practical reentry learning, self-reflection, wellness education, coaching, leadership, employment and entrepreneurship connections, and technical assistance for organizations. All are planned possibilities, not published service commitments.

How Beyond the Bars™ Connects — The Pathway to HOPE™

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Beyond the Bars™ touches all four pathways. Each connection below names the AWARE departments that carry it — explore all five departments on the The AWARE Departments page.

CONNECT — Communities

Belonging, lived-experience stories, community relationships, and future peer mentorship.

Carried by AWARE: Ambassadors · Advocacy · Wellness

LEARN — Trainings

Trauma-Aware reentry education, system navigation literacy, reflection, skills, and support resources.

Carried by AWARE: Education · Redesigning Systems

GROW — Coaching

Mentoring, coaching, leadership, workforce and entrepreneurial possibilities.

Carried by AWARE: Ambassadors · Redesigning Systems · Education

HEAL — Wellness

Whole-person wellness reflection — relationships, identity, grief, stress, restoration, and environmental conditions.

Carried by AWARE: Wellness · Advocacy

Wellness and the Conditions Around It

Reentry is whole-person work. Beyond the Bars™ connects to the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ — dimensions like emotional, social, environmental, financial, and occupational wellness often carry the weight of reentry — and to the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™: housing, education, employment, transportation, and access to care shape what is possible. Wellness is never an individual responsibility alone; the conditions around a person matter.

A Sibling Initiative: Beyond the Uniform™

Beyond the Bars™ and Beyond the Uniform™ stand side by side as equal initiatives — and some lives touch both: a veteran may also carry justice-system experience. Neither identity implies the other, and each person is met as a whole person, never reduced to a single chapter of their story.

Ways to Participate — Choose Your Own Path

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There are many ways to take part, and each one stands on its own. Become an Ambassador without ever sharing your story; share a story without joining a community; support reentry without taking on anything more. Choose the path that fits — or simply register interest and decide later.

Ambassadors

Lived-experience and ally interest inquiry — help grow this initiative and represent its mission.

Coming Soon

Your Story

Consent-led Voices of HOPE™ reentry story inquiry. Your story stays confidential, and nothing is used or published without your explicit permission — there is no automatic publishing.

Coming Soon

Partners, Employers & Mentors

Community partner, employer or mentor interest — explore collaboration, resources, sponsorship, or organizational involvement.

Community & Opportunity

General inquiry — express interest in peer connection, events, or future activities. Where programs are not yet active, they are labeled Coming Soon.

Coming Soon

Your Pathway

Discover relevant opportunities through Connect, Learn, Grow, and Heal — the Pathway to HOPE™ is open now.

Simply want first word when Beyond the Bars™ opens?

Your story matters. Your presence matters. There are many ways to help make HOPE visible. Explore the pathway that feels right for you—connect with the community, share your voice, become an Ambassador, or collaborate with us.

An Initiative of Alchemize HOPE · Veterans & Military Families

Beyond the Uniform™

SAME STRENGTH. NEW MISSION.

Identity beyond service — belonging and purpose, carried into what comes next.

Beyond the Uniform™ emblem — a service member's helmet beneath the flag, a lighthouse, and a winding golden path: Same Strength. New Mission.

Beyond the Uniform™

SAME STRENGTH. NEW MISSION.

Beyond the Uniform™ is an emerging Alchemize HOPE initiative for veterans, transitioning service members, reservists, National Guard members, and military families. Its themes are identity beyond service, belonging, and purpose.

It begins as a movement — making HOPE visible for the military community — with structured supports developed over time, built with the people it serves. The program model: a movement now; structured supports as developed.

Coming Soon Beyond the Uniform™ has no launch date yet — join the waitlist and we'll be in touch as it opens.

Status: Coming Soon. This page describes an emerging initiative — not currently available services. Everything below is the vision taking shape: planned possibilities, not published service commitments.

What It Is · Why It Exists · Who It's For

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What This Initiative Is

A veteran- and military-family-centered initiative that honors service while recognizing the whole person beyond a uniform, a role, or a chapter of life.

Who This Is For

Veterans, transitioning service members, National Guard and Reserve communities, military-connected families, loved ones, and those who wish to support them.

Purpose

To cultivate connection, belonging, wellness, and renewed purpose as veterans and military families navigate life during and beyond military service.

Mission

To grow a veteran-informed movement of connection and HOPE, and over time develop structured pathways for learning, peer support, mentorship, coaching, and leadership.

Why This Exists

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Leaving service — after a few years or a full career — is more than a change of role. Identity, belonging, and purpose are all renegotiated at once, for the person who served and for their family. A Trauma-Aware Approach™ invites us to look beneath behavior, honor strengths and lived experience, and address the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ alongside the practical realities of transition.

Beyond the Uniform Is a Person

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Identity, relationships, strengths, and future possibilities matter alongside the service story. Beyond the Uniform™ is veteran-informed in its language and its listening: it makes no assumptions about combat, injury, disability, or clinical needs, and it does not promise therapy, benefits navigation, or emergency response. Every person who served — and every family beside them — is met as a whole person.

A Community Movement

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Beyond the Uniform™ creates opportunities for stories, mutual connection, veteran leadership, awareness and community partnerships — a movement first, growing at the pace of the community it serves.

Future Wellness and Purpose Pathways

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Coming Soon

Future pathways will explore trauma-aware reflection, transitions, family experiences, mentoring, leadership, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities. These are possibilities still taking shape — future-framed and opened only as they are ready, never promised before they exist.

Voices of HOPE™: Veteran Stories

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Veterans and military-connected loved ones are invited to share experiences in their own words and on their own terms — what to share, and whether to share at all, is always the storyteller's choice.

Two Connected Branches: The Envisioned Model

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The Movement

Make HOPE visible through stories, awareness, listening, meaningful partnerships, advocacy and community connection.

A Voices of HOPE™ veteran story series may feature self-directed stories from veterans and military families.

The Pathways

Explore possible education, wellness education, coaching, mentoring, leadership development, peer connection, and technical assistance for organizations that serve this community. All are planned possibilities, not published service commitments.

How Beyond the Uniform™ Connects — The Pathway to HOPE™

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Beyond the Uniform™ touches all four pathways. Each connection below names the AWARE departments that carry it — explore all five departments on the The AWARE Departments page.

CONNECT — Communities

Belonging, community relationships, and veteran stories — connection with people who understand service, and with the wider community beyond it.

Carried by AWARE: Ambassadors · Advocacy · Wellness

LEARN — Trainings

Trauma-Aware education, reflection, and skills for the transition into civilian life — for veterans, families, and the people who support them.

Carried by AWARE: Education · Redesigning Systems

GROW — Coaching

Mentoring, coaching, leadership, workforce and entrepreneurial possibilities — strength carried into a new mission.

Carried by AWARE: Ambassadors · Redesigning Systems · Education

HEAL — Wellness

Whole-person wellness reflection — identity, grief, stress, restoration, and relationships.

Carried by AWARE: Wellness · Advocacy

Wellness and the Conditions Around It

Transition is whole-person work. Beyond the Uniform™ connects to the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ — dimensions like emotional, social, environmental, financial, and occupational wellness often carry the weight of transition — and to the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™: housing, education, employment, transportation, and access to care shape what is possible. Wellness is never an individual responsibility alone; the conditions around a person matter.

A Sibling Initiative: Beyond the Bars™

Beyond the Uniform™ and Beyond the Bars™ stand side by side as equal initiatives — and some lives touch both: a veteran may also carry justice-system experience. Neither identity implies the other, and each person is met as a whole person, never reduced to a single chapter of their story.

Ways to Participate — Choose Your Own Path

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There are many ways to take part, and each one stands on its own. Become an Ambassador without ever sharing your story; share a story without joining a community; connect without committing to anything more. Choose the path that fits — or simply register interest and decide later.

Veteran Ambassadors

Interest inquiry — help grow this initiative and represent its mission. Leadership and community engagement are developing.

Coming Soon

Your Story

Voices of HOPE™ guest inquiry. Your story stays confidential, and nothing is used or published without your explicit permission — there is no automatic publishing.

Coming Soon

Veteran Community

Connection interest inquiry — express interest in peer connection, events, or future activities. This registers interest; it is not a promise of an active group.

Coming Soon

Partners, Volunteers & Sponsors

Partner, volunteer or sponsor inquiry — explore collaboration, resources, sponsorship, or organizational involvement in support of veterans and military families.

Your Pathway

Discover relevant opportunities through Connect, Learn, Grow, and Heal — the Pathway to HOPE™ is open now.

Simply want first word when Beyond the Uniform™ opens?

Your story matters. Your presence matters. There are many ways to help make HOPE visible. Explore the pathway that feels right for you—connect with the community, share your voice, become an Ambassador, or collaborate with us.

An Initiative of Alchemize HOPE · Remembrance, Visibility & Connection

Say Their Name™

Every name holds a story. Every person matters.

Whether someone has lost a loved one to suicide, overdose, or homicide, or is living with the uncertainty of a missing person, their loved one’s name, story, relationships, and humanity matter. Say Their Name™ is a developing Alchemize HOPE initiative making space for remembrance, visibility, connection, honest conversations, and pathways toward support—without shame, pressure, or judgment.

Say Their Name™ emblem — a white dove carrying a golden olive branch, rising over clouds within a gold and sapphire medallion

Say Their Name™

“Their life is more than what happened to them.”

Say Their Name™ centers loved ones affected by suicide, overdose, homicide, and missing-person cases. It welcomes family, friends, partners, peers, colleagues, and communities navigating grief, traumatic loss, or the ongoing uncertainty of someone missing.

At its heart are dignity, remembrance, visibility, connection, and compassionate support — and each person’s identity beyond the circumstances of a death or disappearance.

Coming Soon Say Their Name™ has no launch date yet — join the waitlist and we'll be in touch as it opens.

Status: Coming Soon. This page shares the mission and educational overview of a developing initiative. It is not an active support group, memorial database, registration, or event, and nothing here implies one has launched.

What It Is · Why It Exists · Who It's For

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What This Initiative Is

A remembrance, visibility and connection initiative honoring individuals and supporting the people who carry love, grief, unanswered questions or uncertainty.

Who This Is For

Families, friends and communities affected by death by suicide, overdose or homicide, and those experiencing the uncertainty and ambiguous loss of a missing loved one.

Purpose

To affirm that people are more than the circumstances of their death or disappearance and create dignified opportunities for remembrance, connection, advocacy and compassion.

Mission

To cultivate a nonjudgmental space for stories, remembrance, community awareness and person-driven support—without requiring families to disclose private experiences or assume a missing person has died.

Why This Matters

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Death and disappearance can leave love, grief, fear, uncertainty, unanswered questions, anger, and memories existing side by side. No two experiences are the same — and two of those experiences are different enough that Say Their Name™ keeps them on separate paths. Remembrance follows a confirmed passing. A missing person's family lives with something else: an ongoing uncertainty that is not a loss anyone can name for them. Both are honored here, each in its own language.

Their Life Is More Than How They Were Lost

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Every person honored here is remembered for a whole life — relationships, personality, meaningful moments, and stories — never defined by a cause or a circumstance. How someone was lost is one fact near the end of a story; it is never the story itself.

Begin Where You Are

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Four pathways of experience — suicide loss, overdose loss, homicide loss, and missing persons and ambiguous loss. Each deserves distinct, thoughtful language and support. These cards are simply ways into the page — nothing here asks you to share, disclose, or name anyone, and everything on this page can be read anonymously.

Remembrance

Remember someone lost to suicide

For families, friends, and loved ones grieving someone lost to suicide — and holding the whole of who they were.

Remembrance

Remember someone lost to overdose

For families, friends, and loved ones grieving someone lost to overdose — their life was bigger than the way they died.

Remembrance

Remember someone lost to homicide

For families, friends, and loved ones grieving a homicide — a life to be honored, never reduced to what happened.

Missing · Ongoing Uncertainty

Support someone who is missing

For those living with a missing loved one — searching, waiting, and keeping their story visible. This path is different, and it stays different.

Remembrance — After a Confirmed Passing

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“Their life was bigger than the way they died.”

This path is for loved ones grieving a confirmed passing — by suicide, overdose, or homicide. Remembrance here means honoring a whole life: who they were, how they laughed, what they loved, the place they hold in their family and community — without reducing them to how they died.

Grief after a death can hold love, fear, anger, unanswered questions, and memories all side by side, and no two experiences are the same. There is no timeline for it, and no expected shape.

When it is welcomed, a gentle question opens more than advice ever could: “Would you like to tell me about them?” Then listen — without demanding details. Honor the person, and respect the family's language, privacy, and wishes.

When Someone Is Missing — Living With Uncertainty

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“Their story matters. They have not been forgotten.”

This path is for families, friends, and loved ones of someone who is missing. Their experience is not bereavement after a confirmed passing — it is living, day after day, with uncertainty: searching, waiting, hoping, and keeping their story visible.

Say Their Name™ does not assume a death that has not been confirmed, and an open search is never treated as finished. Missing-person awareness is not memorialization, and the language here stays honest: missing, searching, uncertainty, keeping their story visible.

Visibility for a missing-person case happens only with verified family authorization. This site carries no case details, posters, tips, or appeals — reports and information about a case belong with local law enforcement and the appropriate official authorities.

Two Connected Branches — and a Story Series

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The Movement

Under Make HOPE Visible™, the movement branch grows remembrance and awareness campaigns, optional name-sharing and symbolic apparel, community connection, family-led advocacy, and stigma reduction — with optional storytelling for those who choose it.

Memorial events belong to confirmed passings. Visibility for missing-person cases happens only with verified family authorization — it is never memorialization by default.

The Pathways

Future structured pathways may include trauma-aware grief and ambiguous-loss education, peer connection, family and community support, coaching and learning resources, and carefully verified referral partners for bereavement and missing-person support. These are future possibilities, not current services.

Voices After Loss™

Voices After Loss™ is the story series of Voices of HOPE™ connected to this initiative: optional written, audio, or video stories from people grieving a confirmed passing.

Stories from missing-person families live under a clearly differentiated pathway — “Missing, Remembered, and Loved” — which never implies death. Every story requires permission and editorial safeguards.

Coming Soon

Honor and Remember — A Future Possibility

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Coming Soon

In time, Say Their Name™ hopes to offer opt-in story spotlights, remembrance activities, and memorial opportunities. They will exist only after moderation, family permissions, and clear procedures are in place — with explicit permission for every name, photo, and story. Until then, this is a future possibility, not a feature: there is no memorial wall and no public submission of any kind, and the only route is a general inquiry.

Explore & Participate

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Explore the Purpose

Start with the two paths above — remembrance after a confirmed passing, and support through the uncertainty of someone missing — and the Pathway and AWARE connections below.

Reflections

Reflections on grief, missing-person uncertainty, and remembrance.

Coming Soon

Voices After Loss™ Stories

Discover related stories through Voices of HOPE™ as they become available — always shared with permission.

Coming Soon

Future Opportunities

Remembrance, visibility, community connection, and Ambassador opportunities will be announced as the initiative opens. Until then, the waitlist is the first step.

How Say Their Name™ Connects — The Pathway to HOPE™

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Say Their Name™ touches all four pathways. Each connection links to the pathway's own page — nothing is duplicated here.

CONNECT — Communities

Belonging, companionship, community remembrance and safe missing-person visibility — family and peer connection for people carrying grief or uncertainty.

LEARN — Trainings

Grief and ambiguous-loss literacy, stigma awareness, listening, trauma-aware communication, and understanding context.

GROW — Coaching

Meaning-making where appropriate, family and community leadership, advocacy, support-building, and reflective practices.

HEAL — Wellness

Whole-person wellness, self-awareness, grief and ambiguous-loss support resources, and varied personal healing journeys.

The AWARE Intersections

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All five AWARE departments carry part of this initiative — explore them in full on the The AWARE Departments page.

Advocacy

Dignity, stigma reduction, survivor and family visibility, and appropriate missing-person advocacy.

Wellness

Grief, ambiguous loss, and the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™.

Ambassadors

Trained community awareness, remembrance, and consent-based outreach.

Redesigning Systems

Person-driven, trauma-aware, culturally responsive pathways to support and information.

Education

Grief literacy, ambiguous-loss awareness, loss-aware language, and professional learning.

Wellness and the Conditions Around It

Grief and uncertainty are whole-person experiences. Say Their Name™ connects to the 10 Dimensions of Alchemized Wellness™ and to the Conditions That Shape Human Potential™ — conditions such as access to care, housing, relationships, and community support shape what a family is carrying and what support can reach them. Those conditions never explain any individual death or disappearance, and grief follows no predictable trajectory.

Support & Resources

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Three different kinds of support, kept distinct — because bereavement after a death, support after a violent death, and the search for someone missing are not the same experience.

Bereavement — After a Death

Grief support begins with being heard. If you or someone you love is in suicidal or emotional crisis in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — free, confidential, and available any time.

For immediate danger, call 911.

Victim Support

Families affected by homicide carry both grief and a justice process. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

You may also ask local law enforcement about the victim-support advocates serving your area, who can explain what support exists locally.

Missing-Person Support

To report a missing person, or to share information about a case, contact local law enforcement or the appropriate official authorities.

This website does not accept investigative tips or case information, and it cannot promise case assistance.

Your name, your choice. Nothing on this page asks you to share a name or a story. There is no memorial wall, no photo or story upload, and no enrollment here — and there will be no public submission of any kind without explicit, verified permission from the family. Private remembrance, private searching, and anonymity are fully respected: participation is always optional.

Ways to Participate — Choose Your Own Path

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Each option below stands on its own, and every one is optional. Registering interest never means sharing a name or a story, choosing one path never enrolls you in another, and nothing is ever published without explicit, verified permission.

Honor a Story

A future moderated remembrance feature. Until it is live, this opens a general inquiry only — no names or stories are collected for publication here.

Coming Soon

Your Story

Confidential interest inquiry for Voices After Loss™, the story series of Voices of HOPE™. You choose what to share and may decline any question — nothing is used or published without your explicit permission.

Coming Soon

Ambassadors

Grief-informed awareness and community ambassador interest — help carry remembrance and visibility into your community.

Coming Soon

Connection

General support interest and vetted resource navigation — this registers interest; it is not an unverified support group, and it makes no promise of one.

Coming Soon

Partners

Community and organizational partnership inquiry — explore collaboration in remembrance and awareness.

Your Pathway

Discover relevant opportunities through Connect, Learn, Grow, and Heal — the Pathway to HOPE™ is open now.

Simply want first word when Say Their Name™ opens?

Your story matters. Your presence matters. There are many ways to help make HOPE visible. Explore the pathway that feels right for you—connect with the community, share your voice, become an Ambassador, or collaborate with us.

Reviews & Testimonials

What People Say After the Training

Real words from training participants — and the numbers from 181 reviewed evaluation forms across 2022–2023 trainings.

Evaluation Highlights

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Across 181 evaluation forms from the four- and five-item questionnaires, the share of readable responses rating “strongly agree” or “mostly agree.” Trainings facilitated by Angel Prater & co-facilitators.

96.7%
Presenters demonstrated teaching
174 of 180 readable responses
94.4%
Would recommend the training
170 of 180 readable responses
94.4%
Can use it in their personal life
168 of 178 readable responses
84.9%
Gained new information
152 of 179 readable responses

Angel's Career Impact

Beyond these evaluations, Angel's purpose-driven work has reached far and wide:

1000s
Trained
100s+
Coached
100s+
Organizations Supported
through technical assistance
30
Years of Purpose-Driven Work

Five-item questionnaire · 155 forms

Would like this training across Oregon96.1%
Presenters demonstrated teaching96.1%
Would recommend the training93.5%
Can use it in their personal life93.5%
Gained new information85.6%

Seven-item questionnaire · 38 forms

Gained new information97.4%
Presenters demonstrated teaching97.4%
Can apply it in their personal life97.4%
Can apply it in their professional life94.6%
Would recommend the training92.1%
Different from other trauma-informed trainings91.7%

Before & after — participants rate their own growth

On the seven-item questionnaire (38 forms), participants retrospectively rated themselves before and after the training on a 1–5 scale. These are participant self-assessments, not objective skills tests.

Understanding of the Trauma Aware Approach™2.58 → 4.34

92.1% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

Understanding of Trauma Informed Care principles2.97 → 4.34

81.6% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

Confidence applying practices in personal life2.54 → 4.19

89.2% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

Confidence applying practices in their professional role2.65 → 4.19

86.5% of participants rated themselves higher after the training.

How to read these numbers: Percentages show “strongly agree” plus “mostly agree” as a share of readable responses to each question; blank or unclear responses are excluded question by question. Evaluation forms are not counts of unique participants. These evaluations cover trainings Angel facilitated in 2022–2023 — Intentional Peer Support, peer supervision, crisis prevention & de-escalation, and PacificSource supervision — not every Alchemize HOPE offering.

Testimonials

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Participant feedback graphic: “Angel Prater is amazing.” — Training participant, IPS training, October 2022
Participant feedback graphic: “I love that you are you, Angel! Your presentation is amazing & real. I appreciate your transparency, education and delivery.” — Peer supervision training participant
“I think that the expertise of the trainer, Angel, made it very applicable and personal.”
— Training participant, IPS final evaluation, Oct 2022
Participant feedback graphic: “The facilitator was great. She was incredibly knowledgeable, real, genuine & confident.” — Crisis prevention and de-escalation participant, Astoria, April 2024
“Everything! This training gave me tools not only for peer support but also for how I can improve my relationships and trust.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon, Aug 2022
“The trainers were extremely knowledgeable, intentional & approachable.”
— Training participant, IPS final evaluation, June 2022
“Although it was jam-packed with information, it was presented so dynamically that I didn't feel overwhelmed.”
— Training participant, IPS evaluation, Oct 2022
Participant feedback graphic: “… Angel [is] very authentic.” — Training participant, Bend training, July 19–21

More Voices From the Room

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“The way the facilitators presented the material was so raw and easy to follow, they where able to open my mind.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon
“This course has taught me to see people & relationships through new eyes.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon
“I am so grateful for the life changing education I received. My life is forever changed because of this training.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon
“Connect, learn, grow, heal, & its applicable to everything!”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon · PacificSource supervision, June 2023
“Angel kept it real. Sharing the truth and not just results to trauma informed care.”
— Training participant, Eugene, Oregon

A Teacher's Testimonial — Niyah Ross

A teacher shares what she took from Angel's Alchemize HOPE training — recorded September 30, 2025. Video © Alchemize HOPE Institute.

The teacher is Niyah Ross. Niyah Ross attended a 2-hour introduction to the Trauma-Aware Approach™ in Abuse Reporting in Oregon, “Remaining Connected During Difficult Conversations.”

Share Your Experience

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Have you trained with Angel, joined a Free HUGS event, or experienced the Trauma-Aware Approach™ firsthand? Sharing your story on Google helps the next person find their way to HOPE — and helps Alchemize HOPE Institute reach the people who need it most.

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About Your Trainer

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Angel Prater teaching a training class in Eugene, Oregon — the whole class gathered in FREE HUGS shirts

Angel Prater brings roughly 30 years across behavioral health, social services, peer support, crisis response, nonprofit leadership, and workforce development. She co-created the David Romprey Oregon Warmline — recognized by SAMHSA as a best practice, at roughly 65,000 calls a year by 2016, with state legislative funding secured. As Executive Director of FolkTime, she built its training center ($78K in the first nine months, $150K+ in year two) and established Oregon's first IPS HUB. She has also spent 25+ years training in criminal justice and corrections.

Recognition: 2017 Clackamas County Super-Heart Hero · 2016 Oregon Rural Health Hero of the Year · 2011 Clifford W. Beers Award · 2010 State of Oregon DHS Addictions and Mental Health Award of Excellence · 2006 Garrett Smith Memorial Award.

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Media & Press

Voices of HOPE — In the World

Conversations, interviews, articles, and publications carrying the Trauma-Aware Approach™ and the Pathway to HOPE™ into the wider world.

Voices of HOPE Podcast

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Voices of HOPE Podcast — Alchemize HOPE in the World cover art, with Angel Prater at a podcast desk
Angel Prater at a podcast studio microphone, wearing a FREE HUGS shirt
Angel at the podcast microphone
Angel Prater on a videocast interview screen with 10X branding, wearing a FREE HUGS shirt
Angel on a videocast interview

The Voices of HOPE Podcast carries Angel's “Alchemize HOPE in the World” conversations.

Through honest, hope-driven conversations, the podcast explores trauma, healing, peer support, and what it takes to move from surviving to thriving — the same heart behind the Pathway to HOPE™: Connect • Learn • Grow • Heal.

Listen and watch through the Alchemize HOPE YouTube channel, where Angel's conversations and appearances are gathered together.

Watch on YouTube — Alchemize HOPE

Watch YouTube guest podcast appearancesVoices of HOPE Podcast Coming Soon

Voices After Loss™ — A Story Series in the Making

Voices After Loss™ is the Voices of HOPE™ story series connected to the Say Their Name™ initiative: optional stories of remembrance after a confirmed passing, with missing-person family stories held on their own clearly differentiated “Missing, Remembered, and Loved” pathway. The series carries the initiative's stories — it does not replace the initiative itself.

Coming Soon

On Stage

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Angel Prater on stage with four people in front of a 10X STAGES backdrop
On stage at a 10X Stages event.

Videocasts & Interviews

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Articles & Publications

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Earlier press — AWARE Consulting

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From Angel's years as co-founder of AWARE Consulting Group. Angel is no longer affiliated with AWARE.

At the Authoritypreneur Summit — Invited Sponsor & Promoter

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Angel Prater's Authoritypreneur Summit card — Alchemize Hope, “Connect. Collaborate. Convert.”, Scottsdale, Arizona, September 25–26, 2026

Angel Prater was invited to the Authoritypreneur Summit as a sponsor and promoter of Alchemize HOPE, held September 25–26, 2026 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The summit gathered 150 business leaders, authors, speakers, and entrepreneurs. As an invited sponsor and promoter, Angel shared Alchemize HOPE with fellow attendees — her summit card carried her line for the event: “Connect. Collaborate. Convert.”

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Authoritypreneur Summit sponsor brands graphic, with the Alchemize Hope logo among the sponsor brands
Alchemize Hope among the summit's sponsor brands

Photo Album

HOPE in the World — Photo Album

Free Hugs out in the community, on stage, and among friends. Tap any photo to view it larger and flip through the album.

Champions for the Homeless — Free Hugs at St. Vincent de Paul

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Angel brings Free Hugs to Champions for the Homeless events at St. Vincent de Paul a few times a year. The Nick Lowery Youth Foundation is part of these gatherings — you'll spot its banner in the photos.

Angel with Nick Lowery and friends at a Champions for the Homeless event
Free Hugs by the Christmas tree at a Champions for the Homeless event
Angel with Nick Lowery at a Champions for the Homeless event
Free Hugs between players at a Champions for the Homeless event
Angel with former NFL Raider AC Caswell at a Champions for the Homeless event
A hug in front of the St. Vincent de Paul Phoenix mural
A hug under the St. Vincent de Paul “Feed. Clothe. House.” sign
At the signing table at a Champions for the Homeless event
Angel with Nick Lowery at a Champions for the Homeless event
Free Hugs at a Champions for the Homeless event — Angel with her 3-year-old granddaughter, spreading love and hugs
Angel with Mark “The Smashing Machine” Kerr — former UFC heavyweight tournament champion and UFC Hall of Fame inductee (class of 2025) — at a Champions for the Homeless event
Volunteers making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the serving line at St. Vincent de Paul
Free Hugs with Nick Lowery at a Champions for the Homeless event

Free Hugs Out in the World

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A hug shared at an outdoor community event — Free Hugs out in the world. Press play to watch.
Free Hugs with Willy Wonka at Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Affaire
Free Hugs with community members
On roller skates in a FREE HUGS shirt with friends — from Angel's Instagram
Angel with John Drury, “The Dancing Trucker”
Angel with John Drury and Kevin Harrington at Becoming The Better You (BTBY)
Free Hugs at the Lot Tacos — La Familia taco stand
Free Hugs at the CareOregon Starlight Parade
The Free Hugs crew at the CareOregon Starlight Parade
Free Hugs after dark at the CareOregon Starlight Parade
Free Hugs out in the community with Ascending Flow
A Free Hugs selfie with the Ascending Flow crew
The Free Hugs crew with Ascending Flow
All smiles — Free Hugs with Ascending Flow
Free Hugs with the Ascending Flow crew — four-legged friend included
Free Hugs with the Ascending Flow community
Sharing a laugh in FREE HUGS shirts with Ascending Flow
Event day in the park — Angel with a fellow Free Hugs crew member
The Free Hugs crew, all in FREE HUGS shirts
Free Hugs on the bridge at Hands Across the Bridge — Portland, Oregon
Free Hugs for all ages at Hands Across the Bridge — Portland, Oregon
Angel with the youngest hugger at Hands Across the Bridge — Portland, Oregon
Free Hugs out in the community with Ascending Flow
A training class in Eugene, Oregon — the whole class in FREE HUGS shirts
Free Hugs at a Native American and Indigenous event in Oregon
Free Hugs at a Native American and Indigenous event in Oregon — with tribal police officers and community members
Free Hugs at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Free Hugs on the road — Angel with a fellow hugger, both in FREE HUGS shirts
Free Hugs at a conference — Angel with fellow attendees in the lobby
On roller skates at the lake house in a FREE HUGS shirt
“You Are Enough” — Angel holding the sign on a lawn full of hope-filled messages
Free Hugs at an outdoor yoga session under the string lights
Doctors Angel trained in Uganda, with the community they serve.
Children in Uganda, greeting the doctors Angel trained.
The community gathered in Uganda — the people the doctors Angel trained are helping.
The self-hug, shared in Uganda.
A community elder in Uganda, among those the doctors Angel trained are helping.
Women of the community in Uganda, gathered with the doctors Angel trained.
The full gathering in Uganda — doctors Angel trained, and the community they serve.

Stages, Galas & Good Company

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Angel dancing with Mabvaneyi Tangwena in the 360° booth at the 7th JapiCulture Magazine Launch Gala — February 28, 2026. Press play to watch.
On stage at Secret Knock
Angel with JT Foxx
Gala night with fellow guests
With a guest at a banquet
With a Maricopa County sheriff at a banquet
With the Sober House Records crew at their “Formerly Intoxicated — Music + Mental Health” booth
With a fellow conference delegate
Angel with her friend Nick Lowery
Angel at 10X Stages
With fellow attendees at 10X Stages
Angel at 10X Stages
Angel with Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul
Angel with Dr. Buddy Thornton
Authoritypreneur Summit — Angel, an invited sponsor & promoter, with fellow attendees
Authoritypreneur Summit — Angel, an invited sponsor & promoter, with a fellow attendee
Authoritypreneur Summit — Angel, an invited sponsor & promoter, with fellow attendees
Authoritypreneur Summit — Angel, an invited sponsor & promoter, with fellow attendees
Authoritypreneur Summit — Angel, an invited sponsor & promoter, with fellow attendees
At a conference
With a fellow attendee
Angel at Secret Knock, with a fellow guest
Angel on stage at Secret Knock
Angel at JT Foxx's Mega Success event in Hollywood, California
National Sheriffs' Association conference in Phoenix, Arizona — Angel with the U.S. Marshal

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Free HUGS shirts, 'You've Been Hugged' stickers, and HOPE-driven apparel, printed and shipped by our printing partner. Every purchase supports the mission.

A First Look at What's Coming

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Mock-ups of the first Alchemize HOPE pieces — a preview while the store is being set up. Join the waitlist above and you'll be first to know when they're ready to order.

Black mug with the 'You Have Been Hugged' heart-and-hands emblem, on a desk beside a plant and books
“You Have Been Hugged” mug
Woman wearing the black FREE HUGS t-shirt, front view
FREE HUGS t-shirt — front
White FREE HUGS high-top canvas shoes with the heart-and-hands emblem
FREE HUGS high-top canvas shoes
Young woman wearing the white FREE HUGS backpack against a dark wood wall
FREE HUGS backpack — worn
Close-up of a black FREE HUGS t-shirt with gold lettering
FREE HUGS t-shirt — close-up
Man wearing the black FREE HUGS t-shirt, front view
FREE HUGS t-shirt — front
White FREE HUGS tote bag with gold handles and the heart-and-hands emblem
FREE HUGS tote bag
Young man with sunglasses wearing the white FREE HUGS backpack against a dark wood wall
FREE HUGS backpack — worn
Black 'You Have Been Hugged' mug beside a laptop and notebooks
“You Have Been Hugged” mug
Woman wearing the 'Suicide as a Language of Pain' shirt back
“Suicide as a Language of Pain” t-shirt — back
White backpack with the heart-and-hands emblem, FREE HUGS, and 'Suicide as a Language of Pain'
FREE HUGS backpack — “Suicide as a Language of Pain”
Man wearing the shirt back: 'Suicide as a Language of Pain — Heal Trauma, Be Trauma-Aware — globally one human completes suicide every 40 seconds — a-hopeinstitute.com'
“Suicide as a Language of Pain” t-shirt — back
Young girl holding the white FREE HUGS backpack by its handle
FREE HUGS backpack
Two people together — his shirt shows the 'Suicide as a Language of Pain' back, hers shows the FREE HUGS front
FREE HUGS front, “Suicide as a Language of Pain” back
Woman sitting, wearing the white-and-black FREE HUGS high-top shoes
FREE HUGS high-tops — worn
Woman standing with one leg kicked up, wearing the white-and-black FREE HUGS high-top shoes
FREE HUGS high-tops — worn

Stickers

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Sticker designs in the works — small ways to carry the message and start a conversation. Each family of designs belongs to one of the Alchemize HOPE initiatives; follow the Learn more button under a family to read what those designs mean and what the initiative is about.

Free HUGS

'You Have Been Hugged' sticker — heart held in hands design
“You Have Been Hugged” sticker
'You Have Been Hugged' sticker — gold hands holding a blue heart
“You Have Been Hugged” sticker — hands & heart

S.L.O.P.™

Round S.L.O.P. sticker badge — Suicide as a Language of Pain
S.L.O.P.™ round sticker
S.L.O.P. sticker — 'Pain Needs a Voice'
S.L.O.P.™ sticker — “Pain Needs a Voice”
'Pain Needs a Voice™' S.L.O.P. medallion sticker — a radiant blue heart inside a gold speech bubble
“Pain Needs a Voice™” medallion sticker
Survivors Supporting Survivors™ — S.L.O.P. badge: three golden figures lifting a radiant blue heart
Survivors Supporting Survivors™ — S.L.O.P.™ sticker
Survivors Supporting Survivors™ medallion — two golden figures holding a radiant blue heart
Survivors Supporting Survivors™ sticker

Beyond the Bars™

Beyond the Bars™ emblem illustrating hope and an open path beyond incarceration
Beyond the Bars™ sticker

Beyond the Uniform™

Beyond the Uniform™ emblem — a service member's helmet beneath the flag, a lighthouse, and a winding golden path: Same Strength. New Mission.
Beyond the Uniform™ sticker — “Same Strength. New Mission.”

Say Their Name™ / Voices After Loss™

Say Their Name™ emblem — a white dove carrying a golden olive branch, rising over clouds within a gold and sapphire medallion
Say Their Name™ sticker — dove
'Still Loving. Still Living.™' sticker — a blue and gold butterfly above lilies
“Still Loving. Still Living.™” sticker — butterfly
'Their Life Mattered.™' sticker — a golden tree of life with a glowing heart at its center
“Their Life Mattered.™” sticker — tree of life

Survivor Collection

'Still Here™ — Hope Lives in Me' sticker — a semicolon heart over mountains and a winding river
“Still Here™ — Hope Lives in Me” sticker
'My Story Isn't Over™' sticker — a semicolon heart rising from a golden lotus; 'There Is More to Come'
“My Story Isn't Over™” sticker
'No Shame. Just Hope.™' sticker — a glowing semicolon held in golden hands
“No Shame. Just Hope.™” sticker
'Ask Me About HOPE™' sticker — a golden sunrise over a winding path; 'Conversations Save Lives'
“Ask Me About HOPE™” sticker

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Phone: (503) 319-6671
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