Life Skills and Wellness Development

Y.E.S. Life Skills and Wellness development services are conducted monthly, where youth are engaged in practical life skills and in-depth group sessions designed to strengthen various life skills sets.  For example, the life skills and individual wellness development includes life lessons in “best practices” and “lessons learned” in finance literacy and budgeting, preparing for job interviews, dress for success, health and wellness, and socialization transitioning into the work world to name a few.  Y.E.S. is dedicated to preparing youth for the real world. Each workshop has emphasis on living a healthy lifestyle to include physical fitness, emotional intelligence and managing time and much more. Time management teaches our young adults about setting timelines for daily activities such as: determining what they will wear for the next day the night before or how to set aside time for homework on a game night, etc.  Information, techniques and ideas from our esteemed partners who are professionals, entrepreneurs and organizational entity representatives who provide professional consultation services to young adults on a variety of life skills sets that are necessary to obtain and survive in the 21st century workforce labor market in America.