YEP has an initial curriculum focused on Social and Emotional Learning. By utilizing the IRC Framework, developed by The International Rescue Committee, we have developed a curriculum for children experiencing threatening or traumatizing situations. We provide them with resources to help them learn, grow and advance essential skills in a safe environment. With the disruption in education, social life, and overall safety and well-being that the COVID19 pandemic has generated, we believe this curriculum is more relevant now than ever. 

YEP uses the IRC framework to create environments, experiences, and exercises in a safe healing and learning space. The curriculum focuses on enhancing brain-building functions, emotional regulation, positive social skills and life experiences, conflict resolution, perseverance, and mindfulness. 

There are now two distinct eras that the current generations of the world have experienced. Dominating the pre-pandemic era was physical labor and experiences that crafted unique, intimate social settings and interactions. Now facilitation of social experiences and services are primarily through digital mediums and platforms in the post-pandemic era. 

This increased exposure to technology has already had a significant impact on the minds of budding and developing generations. On a constructive side, developing generations can access diverse knowledge, rapidly create complex solutions and expand their networks in ways unlike ever before. This information overload can create mental and physical environments that promote stress and anxiety on the detrimental side. 

Today people have much more information to process, less time to do it, and little guidance on doing so. This can make it challenging to process one’s mental, physical, or emotional state. We aim to curate a space that teaches and promotes holistic life skills necessary to thrive in rapidly developing environments. These skills focus on developing individuals and groups to effectively process the amount of internal and external stimulation they experience daily.

Our goal is to increase their intuitive skills and confidence to navigate the decision-making process in a rapidly developing environment. It is evident that all of us have new challenges, opportunities, and experiences ahead; however, the budding generations have a dualistic challenge of developing themselves in a world that is also under redevelopment. By empowering the youth with skills that enhance their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual awareness and aptitude, we believe that they will have the skills necessary to thrive in the developing world and create the solutions required to enhance our planet further sustainably.