Mental Health Awareness Month

October is Mental Health Awareness Month! Learn more about our programs, our staff, and our mission to walk beside youth on their journeys towards healing and appropriate community integration.

  • The Importance of Indigenous History Month

    The Importance of Indigenous History Month, and the Impact of Creating Connections to Culture for Indigenous Youth This topic is deeply personal for me. I am an Indigenous Plains Cree…

  • Pride at YESS

    “I am passionate about making YESS as safe and as inclusive as it can be for the queer and trans youth who walk through our doors. It is important for…

  • Meet the YESS Trauma Care Team

    This story with our Trauma Care Team was originally published in our Winter 2019 newsletter. In 2018, we updated our vision to focus on walking beside traumatized youth on their…

  • What is trauma and how do we heal?

    by Jessica Day, Director of Program Innovations at YESS Working in the field of trauma support is hard; my friends and family are often confused about what I do and…