The YESS Institute

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

Admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:45:30 +0000

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 …

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

Admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:10:39 +0000

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. …

Blog: We Are the YESS Mentors!

Admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:10:31 +0000

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 …

YESS Mentoring Article in Denver North Star

Admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:06:46 +0000

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.

Burnout Prevention Workshop

Admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:06:08 +0000

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 …

CNTV Makes a Documentary on YESS Mentoring

Admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:59:36 +0000

Over the past few weeks, the YESS Institute has been collaborating with CNTV to create a 13-minute documentary on the YESS Mentoring program. The documentary focuses on the program at North High School where the mentoring program is an actual class during the school day. Watch the video and you'll see the program in action, …

West HS February ’12 Update

Admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:08:03 +0000

We hope you enjoy this little success story from our program at West High School for the February monthly update! The Mentee of the Month moved even further away from West during January 2012 and now has to make at least 2 bus transfers to just get to school. He had struggled previously to attend …

Win a Car and Support YESS at the Same Time!

Admin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:22:10 +0000

The YESS Institute is excited to be a part of Concerts for Kids' "A Million for What Matters" Game of Skill! YESS is selling tickets for the contest that will take place at their Day of Rock event on May 26th at 6:30pm. So about this car…what do I win? A 2012 Black Ford Mustang!! …

YESS Collaborates With CLACE

Admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:22:01 +0000

For the past ten years, the YESS Institute has been teaching leadership and mentoring workshops to the community, as well as running high school peer mentoring programs. Co-Founder and Executive Director, Carlo Kriekels, stopped by CLACE (Latin American Center for Arts, Science and Education) to lead a couple workshops on presentation skills for …

The Power of Habit in School Engagement

Admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:40:01 +0000

Charless Duhigg’s new book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, focuses on business success or failure. However, let’s apply this to education: the dropout crisis, school engagement and graduation rates. We have seen students in our programs catapult their grades from straight Fs to As and then …