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ARISE Foundation
824 US Highway One
Suite #240
North Palm Beach, FL
Contact: Edmund Benson
Office Phone: (561) 630-2021
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Learn how random acts of kindness can dramatically change your life in the latest ARISE webinar.
By practicing acts of consideration and thoughtfulness, you bring happiness to your life. This webinar will give you practical advice you can put to use right away to improve your relationships.
Forget Facebook and Twitter–simple kindness is the original social networking tool. Conscious acts of kindness in the workplace and at home go a long way toward building connections and trust. Learn the benefits of kindness and how to incorporate it into your day-to-day life with the newest ARISE webinar entitled “Happiness through Kindness.” The webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 23, from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM. To register for the webinar, visit ariselife-skills.org and click on the training calendar on the right side of the home page. ARISE is a nonprofit, therefore we are able to offer this compelling, informative training webinar for a fee of just $19.95 for the general public.
ARISE webinars are the perfect way to reap the benefits of an ARISE training from the comfort of your office. All you need is a phone line and a computer with Internet access to be part of this groundbreaking new series of webinars. In just an hour, you will learn how basic acts of kindness can dramatically affect the way you relate to the people around you.
Have you ever caught yourself concentrating on someone’s faults? We all do it. We focus on what we don’t like in those around us. How about changing your way of thinking? What if you consciously looked for the good in others? And, what if you sought kindness and goodwill by dishing it out yourself? How different would the world be if each one of us paused for a moment and took the time to do something kind for another person? Imagine your boss taking a moment from his day to compliment you on a job well done. See yourself noticing that a coworker is having a rough day and buying them a cup of coffee. Now, stop imagining and learn how to use kindness to improve your life. Gather everyone around your speakerphone, have lunch together and share this important webinar.
For almost 25 years, ARISE, a nonprofit foundation, has developed and published life management skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure juvenile facilities, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults so they don’t end up behind bars. ARISE programs consist of lively interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and grab the attention of even the most introverted participants. ARISE is particularly appropriate for youth with special requirements such as limited reading and/or writing ability and behavioral problems. ARISE attributes its success to its three innovative staff training programs. The Life Skills Facilitator training teaches staff how to conduct ARISE interactive group discussions and activities with the troubled youth in their care. The Master Training certifies participants to train others as ARISE Life Skills Group Facilitators at their respective facilities. CHOICES: Drop It at the Door shows juvenile justice staff how to drop work-related stress and anger at the door when they get home and vice versa. ARISE programs were utilized for decades in the Miami-Dade School system. ARISE has forged a strong partnership with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). ARISE programs have been changing the lives of juvenile offenders in the Florida juvenile justice system since 1996. Its dynamic programs are being taught in over 70 DJJ facilities across the state, as well as alternative schools and organizations such as the Salvation Army and the Boys and Girls Clubs.
ARISE programs are also used in over 100 organizations in the District of Columbia, including Washington, D.C. public and charter schools, the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, the Metropolitan Police, the District of Columbia jail and the D.C. Superior Court Probation Department.
Because ARISE is not for profit, it is able to provide a wide array of training opportunities and an ever-evolving life skills curricula for at-risk youth at affordable rock-bottom prices. Profit is not a motivating factor. Its nonprofit status gives ARISE Foundation the ability to get out into the community, speak to incarcerated youth and adults, and turn their cautionary tales into lessons meant to assist at-risk youth in becoming law abiding citizens by learning from others’ mistakes.
A recent study by Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland showed that the cost of one offender with at least six police contacts from childhood to age 32 is $3,172,998. In other words, rescuing one child from a life of crime saves taxpayers more than 3 million dollars.
Since ARISE was established over two decades ago, it has trained and certified 5,760 Group Facilitators who have taught over 4,055,708 documented hours of ARISE life-skills lessons in almost all 50 states. ARISE has been used successfully in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Botswana and the Kingdom of Bahrain. Requests for translation have also come in from as far away as Pakistan, South Africa, Cambodia, Singapore and China.
For more information, please call ARISE Founder Edmund Benson at ARISE toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit http://www.ariselife-skills.org.
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ARISE Foundation co-founder Edmund Benson recently celebrated his 80th birthday. As a gesture of thanks, he gave his birthday cake to the dedicated staff of Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines, FL. Thompson Academy is a secure juvenile justice facility where approximately 150 youth are held under lock and key for six to nine months while undergoing positive behavior changes. While the youth are at Thompson, ARISE trained group facilitators (the lucky recipients of the birthday cake) conduct ARISE group discussions and activities for 45-60 minutes a day, four days per week. These young men are positively engaged while they learn about anger and conflict management, the importance of education, how to prepare for a world where jobs are hard to come by, and many more valuable lessons. Motivated by the ARISE experience, these youth come to the realization that this information will only help them in life. Thanks to the well-trained staff at Thompson and the ARISE Life Management Skills curricula, created specifically for these troubled youth, they have a chance of leading law-abiding, successful lives upon their release from the program.
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Every 29 seconds, a student gives up on school. In an effort to turn the tide, ARISE created a riveting series on dropout prevention. The first volume is entitled “So You’re Thinking of Dropping Out of School,” and it outlines just how difficult life can be for young people who cut their education short. The second volume, “So You’re Thinking of Staying in School,” prepares underachieving teens with the solid reasons they can relate to for staying in school and the knowledge they need to communicate effectively, build meaningful relationships and make healthy decisions. The Dropping Out series is not just an instantly usable prevention tool—it is a resource-packed source of valuable information teens can lean on for advice and priceless tips to help them avoid the hard-knock life most dropouts face. 
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Edmund Benson, former at-risk kid and founder of ARISE Foundation, is celebrating his 80th birthday by giving a gift to the international nonprofit community: the creative licenses for all of the 100 ARISE life-skills curricula materials. Benson will allow the materials to be translated free of charge into any language (except Spanish, which has been done), for use in life-skills training programs around the world.
