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YESS and Denver Bronco Robert Ayers Celebrate the End of the Year!

What a great way to cap off such a successful year of programming!  The YESS Institute held its annual year-end celebration at North High School acknowledging and celebrating its students and their families in an all-around fabulous evening event.  The event included a special student-led ceremony complete with a nod to the all of the …

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Denver Bronco, Robert Ayers, to Be Keynote Speaker for YESS End of Year Celebration

  Denver Broncos' # 91 Defensive End Robert Ayers to be Keynote Speaker at YESS Institute's YESS Mentoring Celebration on May 10th   YESS Institute is excited to announce the addition of Robert Ayers as the keynote speaker at its annual year-end celebration at Denver Public Schools North High School on May 10th from 6:00-8:00pm. …

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Blog: We Are the YESS Mentors!

  It is often easy to judge students based on their academic performance and attendance, but hard to take a step back and try to understand the reasons behind their failing grades. We, the YESS mentors, are group of juniors and seniors at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver attempting to understand students’ poor performance and help create …

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YESS Mentoring Article in Denver North Star

Our fabulous North High School YESS Mentoring Program was recently featured in North High School's paper, The Denver North Star.  We are so proud of our students and all of their achievements.  Please take a look at the article online by clicking this link: Denver North Star: YESS Mentoring.

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Burnout Prevention Workshop

On March 22, 2012, our co-founder and Executive Director, Carlo Kriekels, led a brilliant training on Burnout Prevention.  This training, put on by the Youth Mentoring Collaborative and the Denver Quality After-school Connection focused on the importance of preventing burnout, something so prevalent in the nonprofit field.  Nonprofit staff from all over the Denver Metro …

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YESS and Denver Bronco Robert Ayers Celebrate the End of the Year! Denver Bronco, Robert Ayers, to Be Keynote Speaker for YESS End of Year Celebration Blog: We Are the YESS Mentors! YESS Mentoring Article in Denver North Star Burnout Prevention Workshop

Welcome to the YESS Institute

We believe that the most powerful way to inspire and engage youth is through peer-to-peer mentoring and emotional intelligence skill building

We have proven that disconnected, failing high school students at high risk for dropping out
will be successful in high school when enrolled in the YESS Mentoring Program

We support role models, agencies and schools with our innovative EmoSmart LeadershipTM curriculum and peer mentoring model through
training, consulting and coaching

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Why Do We Do This?

      The YESS Institute believes that youth empowering youth is the most effective way to motivate and engage struggling students. Students are tired of hearing the same rhetoric from parents and teachers; positive and successful youth are the best role models and leaders for youth at-risk. We base our agency on the proven results that …

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Programs

The YESS mentoring program currently operates in three Denver Public High Schools: Abraham Lincoln, North, and West High School. The three components of the YESS mentoring model are peer mentoring, school engagement, and the curriculum/emotional intelligence piece.  

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