Yes to Emotions in Youth (YEY) is an evidence-based, youth-led, and culturally sensitive emotional intelligence training program that addresses psychopathology and helps prevent mental illness in youth. YEY aims to develop five emotional competencies (identifying, understanding, expressing, regulating, and using emotions) that are key to increasing youth’s resilience, health, autonomy, intra- and interpersonal wellbeing, as well as academic and future vocational adjustment. Researchers at the Lebanese American University will integrate the YEY program into the educational curriculum for high school students within five public schools using a youth-empowering-youth model where sessions are delivered by youth leaders and facilitators to maximize community skill- and capacity-building.
