Children who are confronted by a bully or bullies are on the rise and a growing crisis that can move a child towards self-harm, and even take one’s own life. Here is a small clip called, “Be Someone’s Hero” from the CDC https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/youthviolence/bullyingresearch/fastfact.html  

The U.S. Day News, reporter Ernie Mundell reports on March 29, 2024, “…Over 47,000 Americans between the ages 10 and 19 lost their lives to suicide, the report found, and there have been sharp increases year by year since COVID-19”. The more we as a society talk about bullying, and suicide, the more our youth learn it’s okay to talk about their feelings, especially if they or someone they know is thinking about harming themselve or others. Here is a clip from students who express their personal experience strengthens, and one’s self-awareness in the YEEHAAA program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nApy4EbCI

YEEHAAA has developed a bullycide intervention/prevention program for students in middle, and high school courses which ties into Utah State Core Standards. Our curriculum is intertwined for counselors, teachers and other professionals in a classroom setting, or non-core standard setting like Study Group, Fine Arts, etc. 

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YEEHAAA brings social awareness, change, and diversity into the forefront for students to stop bullying and suicide (bullycide) in our schools. Metaphorically, students see how society treats horses compared to how people treat different cultures. This is done in various ways by participating in field trips, and hands-on experiential groundwork with wild mustangs, holistic horses, ponies, quarter horses, etc.

YEEHAAA’s teacher’s training manual is called, All Lives Matter, by Sharon A. Baxter. This manual brings the Utah Standard Core curriculum into a school setting for the health and wellness program. Services for youth in Juvenile Justice use All Lives Matter, and Seeing Through the Victims Eyes, Victim/Offender Relationship (VOR), by Caron D. Hunter.

Two teenagers approaching a horse

The program can be a quarter or yearly credit curriculum. Students can participate in a classroom setting and/or after school program. YEEHAAA gives the student an open door to have his/her voice heard that promotes strength, empowerment, health, and wellbeing to express personal growth through the educational S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) principles. 

A student’s portfolio in 2018 shows his passion for film technology.

Youth Awareness | Bullying | Empowerment

➤Building strength to support others

➤The behavior is repeated

 ➤Team building

➤Imbalance of Power ➤Respect, value and diversity

➤Disrespecting the value of life 

➤Healing

➤Physically and emotional abuse 

➤Courage to be vulnerable to be “me”

➤Vulnerability 

➤Empowerment

Testimonials

YEEHAAA’s curriculum is intertwined to support counselors, therapists, teachers, and other professionals to help youth build self-awareness, personal growth and the awareness of helping others

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