Congratulations to our Scholarship Recipients
Class of 2025
YESS Institute
Empowering Youth For 20 Years
The YESS Institute supports youth development through peer mentoring, inclusive community building, and expert curricula designed to promote social emotional learning and leadership.
In-School & Mentoring Programs
Substance Misuse Curricula
Workshops & Community Development
Our Story
The success of the YESS model is rooted in the agency’s founding philosophy that the people
and communities served need to be valued as experts of their own lived experiences.
Motorcycle trip through South America
Carlo Kriekels (Co-founder and CEO) travels 35,000 miles by motorbike from California to Chile inspiring him to commit to empowering youth.
YESS institute was born
Susan Greer and Carlo Kriekels cofound YESS Institute envisioning teaching emotional intelligence to youth and role models.
YESS becomes an integrated credited class.
YESS serves 150 students at North, West and Lincoln High Schools as it receives the Colorado state Tony Grampsas Youth Services grant to sustain its pilot
models.
Development of an online learning platform
YESS demonstrated innovation, adaptability and service by upgrading our social emotional and healthy lifestyles curricula to engaging online versions; and building a new website to facilitate online learning built upon our own Learning Management System
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YESS Institute
In The News
YESS Institute has been featured in national media including CBS, Fox, and PBS.
