Youth Prevention Mentors

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YPM (Youth Prevention Mentors) is a premier group of professional mentors and renowned clinicians who work together to bring concierge mental health and behavioral health support services to the doorstep of struggling young people and their families across the globe.

Our team specializes in supporting 13-35 year-olds and their families.

Bloomberg press for Youth Prevention Mentors
How To Overcome Performance Anxiety As A Young Professional
YPM Offers an Innovative Solution to the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
TedEd press for Youth Prevention Mentors

 Imagine a world where young people buy into the cultivation of their wellbeing.  

How it Works

  • 1. Connect

    At YPM, our support begins with a zero-cost consultation. We seek to gain a thorough understanding of the existing challenges faced by you and your loved one and then determine the best course of action. Call us today for a brief and meaningful consultation.

  • 2. Meet

    We expertly pair our clients with a mentor based on their background, personality, interests, struggles and goals. Our sessions can be conducted in-person, virtually, or a hybrid of both. We take it one day at a time and don’t believe in lengthy binding contracts.

  • 3. Grow

    As sessions unfold, our mentors help their mentees take actionable steps toward their goals while mitigating maladaptive behaviors. Over time, our clients learn to hone their strengths, overcome their struggles, and foster enduring self-efficacy.

What Makes YPM Different?

  • Wrap-around Care: Our bespoke programs are rooted in family systems theory and designed to involve and support the whole family.

  • Mentor-Mentee Match: We prioritize mentor-mentee match over geographic convenience. Every client and their family are given the opportunity to meet multiple mentors prior to moving forward.

  • Day One Buy-in: We are experts at securing buy-in from our young clients on day one and beyond. Our young clients choose to work with us, not the other way around.

  • 24/7 Care and Crisis Management: Our evidence-based continuum of care is backed by renowned clinicians and available 24/7.

  • Unrivaled Mentors: Our expert mentors have professional training as well as personal experience overcoming adversity, which makes them highly relatable and impactful.

  • Flexible Commitment: No binding 30-60-90 day agreements, we take it one day at a time.

The Research

Mentoring provides a vital milieu for young people to acquire the skills required for positive development, including caring, competence, confidence, connection, character, and social contribution (Lerner, 2007, 2013).

Research also suggests that youth engaged with a mentor, report significantly fewer behavioral problems and fewer symptoms of depression and social anxiety when compared to non-mentored youths.

Our Mentors

  • Foster adaptive coping strategies, emotional intelligence and self-efficacy

  • Enhance self-esteem through motivational interviewing and strength-based learning

  • Model pro-social behavior and mature communication

  • Help youth express and regulate their emotions

  • Provide a safe space for youth to discover their unique abilities

  • Improve their client’s understanding of their role in the family system

  • Cultivate intrinsic motivation, self-reliance and accountability

What Parents Say About Our Services

  • “Your team’s support was invaluable. It’s just so hard to capture in this note the support you gave (my son) and to us. Because of you, I finally knew he’d be ok. And now, he is. Thank you for everything.“

    - Mother of 18 Year Old Male

  • “YPM has truly helped us. My wife and I always thought that custom care, oversight, intervention and training was the way to go. We learned the hard way that the ‘go away and hope’ programs were not going to help our son. Working with YPM to build a custom program with one-on-one coaching and oversight was the only way to go and it has paid massive dividends for (our son).”

    -Father of 16 Year Old Male

  • “The main strength of Youth Prevention Mentors is the real facts they present; they are up to date with statistics and current information. They opened my eyes to the importance of prevention, how to talk to my kids about peer pressure, and discuss the outcomes of addiction.”

    - Mother of 14 Year Old Female and 16 Year Old Male

Begin the conversation.

Press

Press
Five Strategies to Help Your Teen Reduce Their Risk of Substance Use
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TedED: Nurturing Self-Efficacy in Youth: The Key to Successful Transitions into Adulthood
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YPM Offers an Innovative Solution to the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), “About 1 in 4 adolescents experience mental disorders that result in severe impairment...[and] almost half of adolescents with mental health issues do not receive any mental health services.”

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YPM Launches Innovative Mentorship Program That Teaches Struggling Youth Critical Life Skills

Youth Prevention Mentors (YPM) today announced an innovative mentorship program that teaches struggling youth critical life skills. The growing success of its innovative proprietary EF12™ Executive Functioning Mentorship Program teaches struggling adolescents and young adults the crucial skills needed to thrive in school, work, and life. By working one-on-one with a professional EF Mentor, teens and young adults see dramatic improvements in skills such as time management, organization, focus, metacognition, and other crucial executive functions.

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New Hope For Struggling Teens and Their Families: Youth Mentors

“Our secret sauce comes down to a few things,” says Maks. “One – we make sure that every mentor and mentee are going to be the best fit possible. With over 100 mentors on our roster, this is almost always possible. Two – no two clients are ever treated the same. We design programming to uniquely fit each client and their family. Three – our mentors are steeped in training from the frontier of today’s wellness field and bring years of expertise to the table.”

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How To Overcome Performance Anxiety As A Young Professional

Ezrin says, “Performance anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, and executive dysfunction are often outward manifestations of unresolved internal issues.” It is through Youth Prevention Mentor’s customized and robust approach that they are able to help young adults and adolescents navigate these issues. They use several science-backed techniques to help their young adult clients struggling with performance anxiety. Those are listed below along with ways you can take advantage of these yourself.

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