About Us
Documenting Hope is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing root cause healing solutions for children’s chronic health and developmental conditions. Documenting Hope provides resources and support for parents and practitioners who are ready to move beyond the conventional symptom-suppressive approach to disease management.

A Root Cause Approach to Healing Our Kids
Research.
Our innovative research program is actively contributing to a growing body of discovery research that validates the Total Load impacts of modern living on childhood health, growth, and developmental outcomes.
Resources.
Results.
Vision
A world where all children have the opportunity to reach their health, growth, and developmental potential and lead vibrant lives.
Mission
We are on a mission to reverse today’s epidemic of childhood chronic health and developmental conditions. By initiating and curating scientific discovery, empowering families to take action, and inspiring a new standard of root cause, whole child, total load-informed care, we are leading a societal movement towards a brighter future for children.
We are Documenting Hope.
Our Values
- All children should have the opportunity to reach their health, growth, and development potential.
- We believe in the inherent wisdom of nature.
- Genuine health transformation is possible.
- Parents and caregivers are the greatest authority and resource when it comes to the health of their children.
- Bold action is essential to solve the childhood chronic illness epidemic.
- We are unifying force to co-create a new paradigm for children’s health.
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We apply a rigorous scientific lens to explore and understand the root cause and total load impacts of modern living on children.
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We maintain an open mind to a wide variety of healing traditions and perspectives.
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Every child is unique and requires a personalized approach to health and healing.
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Story telling is an honored method for inspiring action and documenting the innate ability of the human body to heal.
Our Staff
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Our Board of Directors
Documenting Hope is guided and governed by a dedicated group of professionals who are deeply committed to building a better future for our children.
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Our Medical and Scientific Advisory Board
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Our Professional Advisory Board
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Our Why
More than half of American children have a diagnosed chronic condition. Because we know recovery is possible, and many chronic childhood conditions are preventable, there is a moral imperative and urgency to apply the wisdom and the tools we already have to help children return to vibrant health.

Our Canary
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“Unfortunately today, too many of our children, by analogy, function as canaries in the coalmine. They are teaching us that something is deeply out of order, deeply imbalanced, deeply in need of understanding, and largely lacking in therapy.”
Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD
Health Studies Collegium
Emeritus Medical Advisor