YESS They Can. YESS They Do.

YESS Institute. It's a unique peer-based platform that uses curriculum and guided activities to empower kids to mentor other at-risk kids.

Kriekels offers his corporate leadership and EQ training to some of Denver's toughest schools. He says, "An adult can come in and work with the kids, but they will quickly see that they don't know what they're talking about. Our mentors are their peers, kids who have come from the same background, the same neighborhoods, the same problems. They know how they think. They get it. It's important that the other kids can see someone else who has made it." The Institute focuses on keeping kids in school and getting into higher education. It's a road out to a future that's wide open.

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