EF12 Youth Prevention Mentors executive functioning program

Our Executive Functioning Program

YPM's executive functioning program, EF12™, fosters a supportive environment in which adolescents and young adults can mitigate executive dysfunction, develop executive functioning skills, incorporate goal setting tools, boost positive habit formation, achieve tangible goals, and attain the life skills required to thrive independently.

Who Is This Program For?

  • Up to 30% of teenagers struggle with some aspect of executive functioning (Goldstein et al., 2014).

  • There is a popular misconception that only adolescents with ADHD have poor executive functioning skills.

  • While this is partially true, there are many non-ADHD adolescents who struggle with executive functioning skills but do not get the help that they need.

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Teenagers grappling with the following issues are in need of EF support:

  • Addiction

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Mood Disorders

  • Recent Concussion

  • ADHD

  • Trauma

  • Chronic Stress

  • Sleep Deprivation

  • Concussion History

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What Our Clients Learn

12 Core Skills

  1. Time Management

  2. Organization

  3. Task Initiation

  4. Working Memory

  5. Meta-Cognition

  6. Cognitive Flexibility

7. Goal Directed Persistence

8. Response Inhibition

9. Planning/Prioritization

10. Emotional Regulation

11. Stress Tolerance

12. Focus/Sustained Attention

RESULTS

Since 2018, we have helped numerous adolescents and young adults across four continents boost their EF skills.

As these EF skills improved we also saw substantial growth in terms of academic performance, self-confidence, self-efficacy, communication, goal attainment, sociability, and reduced stress, anxiety, and depression.

The feedback has been immensely supportive. 100% of families have stated that they noticed a significant and sustained improvement in their child's wellbeing after beginning this program.

PROGRAM GOALS

  • Identify client's executive dysfunction

  • Mitigate obstacles to executive functioning

  • Implement the 12 core executive functioning skills

  • Foster positive habit formation / behavioral activation

  • Incorporate goal setting techniques

  • Establish enduring cognitive consonance

Learn more about EF12™

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