Here at Hope for Hurting Kids, we strive to point you to resources which can help kids, teens, and those who love them deal with some of the many issues kids face today. One way we choose to do that is to offer extensive boards on Pinterest compiling resources and links to resources on a variety of topics. This allows us to make more resources available quicker to help you. You can find our collection of boards on a variety of topics at http://pinterest.com/hope4hurtkids/.

On Pinterest, our goal is to link to as many resources as possible which may be useful. In order to accomplish this, we do not always review each resource which we pin. We also realize that some people are not Pinterest users (note: you do not have to have a Pinterest account in order to utilize our resources). So, we have decided to feature the best of our Pinterest boards here on the site on a regular basis in a feature we call Pinterest Spotlight.

This week we turn to our “Emotions – Anxiety and Stress” Board which features resources to help kids and teens deal with things like anxiety, fear and panic attacks. For kids, these emotions can be the result of circumstances in their lives (like divorce of their parents, bullying, etc.) or just a general sense of impending doom.

Today’s featured pin comes to us from anxietyreliefstree.com which is a website developed by Jennifer Johnson as a result of her own struggles with anxiety. In this infographic, she offers five tips for helping people of any age to relieve anxiety.

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There’s a new way to get help here on Hope 4 Hurting Kids.  This past weekend, we launched our presence and efforts to accumulate useful information on Pinterest.  If you’re on Pinterest, you know that it can be a wealth of information. Unfortunately, sometimes it is so much information that it’s hard to find exactly what you’re looking for. Our goal here at Hope 4 Hurting Kids is to draw your attention to information and resource to help young people who are hurting because of the events and circumstances in their lives. We will continue to do that here on this blog, but Pinterest gives us an opportunity and ability to share more information in a more immediate way.

On our Pinterest site, you will find boards (a collection of pins/links to useful information and resources) in the following categories:

• Resources for Hurting Kids
• Abuse and Neglect
• Divorce and Family Disruption
• Emotions – General
• Emotions – Anger
• Emotions – Anxiety and Fear
• Emotions – Depression
• Emotions – Grief
• Emotions – Stress
• Forgiveness
• Group Activities
• Holidays
• Incarcerated Parents
• Inspiration
• Modern Families – Coparenting
• Modern Families – Single Parent Families
• Modern Families – Step/Blended Families
• Poverty / Financial Issues
• Self-Harm / Cutting
• Suicide
• Stories from the Front Lines
• Dealing with Tragedy

We will also be adding additional boards as we see the need.  Make sure to head over Pinterest and check us out. If you are a Pinterest user, and you’d like to be able to post to our boards, please contact wayne@hope4hurtingkids.com and request to be added as a contributor (please indicate which boards you would like to be able to post to).

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