High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Youth Empowerment Scheme, or YES, is a charity in Belfast that offers a mentoring service to children between 11 and 14 years old. It was established in 2001 by participants on the Washington Ireland Program including Chris Johnston, Ryan Moffett, Sarah Quinlan and Andrea Erskine and was based on Teamwork for Tomorrow, a similar scheme run by students at Notre Dame University, United States.