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Mental Health Awareness Month Ideas
Mental Health Awareness Month begins on May 1st and runs through the end of the month. This is such an important topic for teachers as they navigate the struggles involved with the mental health of their students and their own children. Nobody wants to see a child suffer, yet youth anxiety and depression are on…
Read MoreIdentity and Anxiety in Relationships
Relationships are a good thing. Relationships not only give us support and community, but they also give us hope. However, the one thing a relationship shouldn’t give you is identity. Your identity is unique to you, and you alone. Searching for your identity in a friend, family member, girlfriend, or boyfriend will only leave you…
Read MoreCurate Hope: New Name, Same Mission
If you’ve been following us for some time, you might have seen that we recently changed our name from the Youth Leadership Collective to Curate Hope. We are still passionate about youth and leadership, but we realized that our message and vision reach beyond those two concepts alone. At the root of it, our message…
Read MoreHow to Help Teens in Crisis
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you were trying to help teens in crisis? Did you know what to do or what to say? Without preparing for those moments in advance, it’s easy to fall back on cliches. But oftentimes, cliches are the last thing the student needs in a time of…
Read MoreHelping Your Teen Through Despair
There’s no way around it, at some point your kids is going to face disappointment, rejection, and hurt. Sometimes this can lead to despair. Despair is a loss of hope, believing that tomorrow won’t be any better than today. Despair is a powerful emotional state and a dangerous one if not healed and brought back…
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