Your Life. Your Story Summer Camp

YLYS is an intervention study to increase resilience and self-mastery in Latino adolescents, with the aim of reducing and/or preventing depressive symptoms. The program is evidence-based, interdisciplinary, and community-based. It is a yearlong program that just completed its first phase, which consisted of a one-week summer camp where Latino youth went through a resilience-building curriculum (WhyTry), followed by a selection of art and movement based activities to develop goals for the future and identify barriers and opportunities; additionally, each teen was paired with a young adult (IUPUI student) mentor. The second phase of the program includes meeting once per month through May 2015; each meeting will focus on various components from the camp.