BACKGROUND: Availability of evidence-based intervention for recently arrived immigrant youth that does not have a medical approach is limited. Not responding to these youth with adequate support can lead to major psychosocial consequences during adolescence and in the future. The current study focuses on the evaluation of the pilot test of the PIA Youth Program. The PIA Youth Program was developed on the bases of newly arrived youth's own description of needs in a series of interviews and the research on the risk and protective factors in relation to migration and resettlement process. Therefore, the aim was to determine whether the intervention effectively promoted refugee youth’s motivation, feelings of efficacy, and view of their potential to overcome their challenges such as learning a new language, academic tasks, seeking help from others, developing a career path and sense of belongingness in the new host society. METHOD: The pilot test used a single group pre- and post-test design. Pre-and post-test outcome measures were compared to examine improvements after enrolment in the program. Paired samples t-test was used to estimate the changes. Due to the small sample size, the adjusted Cohens d effect size was used to determine the program's impact on different measures based on the commonly recommended cut-off values. A total of 29 youth enrolled in the program in Swedish, Kurdish, Somalian and Arabic, and 24 of the youth who started completed the program. RESULTS: The results suggested that the youth who participated in the program showed improvements relative to their baseline level in several of the measures. Specifically, their internal motivation to learn Swedish (d = .47), confidence in achieving academic goals (d = .28), and persistence in dealing with school difficulties (d =.22) showed a trend of increase. On the other hand, the youth who participated in their home language showed a decrease in societal belonging, which slightly increased with other youth who participated in Swedish. CONCLUSION: The results suggested that the PIA Youth Program is generally an effective dissonance-based intervention that could promote motivation to overcome challenges and maintain hope for the future for recently arrived youth. Due to the small sample size, the findings are not conclusive. However, the pilot test results could be seen as a basis for mapping, refinement, and improvement of the program before it can be tested on a larger scale using RCT design.