The YES Institute was born of a desire to prevent teen suicides. On the YES Institute’s website, founders Martha Fugate and Connie Barden remember when the organization was founded more than a decade ago:
We began meeting with local community leaders and educators to find out what could be done to keep youth from wanting to kill or harm themselves. In these meetings we discovered two missing pieces to the puzzle of why well-intentioned professionals were not taking effective actions: they lacked education and they were not comfortable talking about gay youth.
This led to the clear focus that was to become YES Institute - providing education and powerful communication that enables adults to serve all youth even when they are uncomfortable or hold conflicted opinions on the subject.
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