What is YPM?

YPM (Youth Prevention Mentors) is an inspired group of accredited mentors, counselors, and clinicians working in collaboration to mentor adolescents and young adults struggling to thrive, whether from behavioral issues, trauma, or the pressures of growing up in today’s world.

Depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, lack of accountability, and dysregulated executive functioning are often outward manifestations of internal issues. YPM acknowledges and tends to each client with respect, patience, and care. We aim to mitigate crises by providing relatable mentors to allow families to be families again.

Our goal as an organization is crisis mitigation with mentors that your child can relate to in order to allow families to be families again.

What is Crisis Mitigation?

It can be extremely difficult for parents to successfully manage their child’s exposure and attitude towards substances, mental health, or maladaptive behaviors . Oftentimes the disparities in perspective between the parent and young adult can lead to a strained relationship, secrecy, miscommunication, and/or a loss of trust.

Youth Prevention Mentors was founded to bridge this communication gap and provide support and guidance to both parents and young adults while they navigate this charged topic during a critical time.

Ideally, we work with families to intervene before parental authority is wrestled away by the pull of peer groups. Our mentorship program provides an important “positive peer pressure;” cool and experienced peers that can share their experiences and provide an alternative to the messaging in a young adult’s peer group.

Through our Youth Prevention Mentor Services and our family-focused process, our primary goals are always:

  • Prevention

  • Risk mitigation

Having done the daunting heavy lifting that it takes to usher a young adult from the maws of crisis, we often find ourselves thinking “I wish I knew this kid when they were 13; so much could have been spared.”

We are here to help steer young adults out of danger early so we are not meeting them years later, deep in the abyss.

What parents are saying about Youth Prevention Mentors

  • “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