ARISE Launches New ARISE Positivity E-Cards

A Fun Way to Express Yourself

North Palm Beach, FL – ARISE Foundation is proud to introduce a few of our most popular ARISE Positivity Cards in the form of an E-Card free of charge! (http://at-riskyouth.org/arise-positivity-e-cards-2/) Email them to friends, family and those at work. These messages are pocket sized, positive life lessons reduced to just a few words and images using memorable, often amusing concepts and beautiful color graphics. ARISE Positivity E-Cards are big thoughts in fun, simple, beautiful graphics and uplifting.

The ARISE Positivity E-Cards are a unique way of saying; You’ve Been Noticed Doing Something Very Good, Don’t Get Steamed…COOL it, Leave your Bad Day at work, You seal your fate by the CHOICES you make, Words Can HURT; Say Something Nice, and YOU Are So Appreciated.

These unique E-Cards are great for self-improvement and as a communication tool with friends, family and business associates.

The ARISE Positivity Cards are available in individual sets of cards. The Deck of 55 cards include instructions for use and a maximize group participation card. You can also download, free of charge, the ARISE Positivity Apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. For more information or to purchase beautiful hard copies of these pocket sized positive communication tools, visit http://at-riskyouth.org/arise-positivity-cards-2/.

Since ARISE was established in 1986, it has trained and certified  over 5,531 ARISE Life-Skills Group Facilitators who have taught over 4,824,576 documented hours (averaging 13,646 hours per month) of the interactive ARISE Life Skills lessons to at-risk youth and teens across the United States and beyond. The ARISE program is in use in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, The Kingdom of Bahrain, South Africa, Vietnam, Uganda, Nigeria and Haiti.

Five Quotes About Friendship & Peer Pressure, brought to you by ARISE Life Skills

No man is an island—we are influenced heavily by the people in our lives. True friends, those that lift us up when life knocks us down, are rare and valuable things. Especially during the turmoil and confusion of adolescence, friends can mean the difference between failure and success. Succumbing to peer pressure and picking the wrong friends can destroy your future. How is someone a friend when they seek to see you fail? Real friends share in your triumphs as if they are their own.

1.  ”The only pressure I’m under is the pressure I’ve put on myself.” —Mark Messier
2. “True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.”  —proverb
3. “A true friend advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously and continues to be a friend unchangeably.”  —William Penn
4. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend but it requires a very fine nature; it requires, in fact, that nature of a true individualist with a friend’s success.”  —Oscar Wilde
5. “I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.”  —Cher

Peer pressure and harmful friendships are often big factors in someone’s decision to stay in school or drop out.  For more information on resisting peer pressure and choosing the right friends, check out So You’re Thinking of Dropping Out of School, which will soon have a companion volume entitled “So You’re Thinking of Staying in School,” a valuable handbook for how to communicate effectively, build healthier, closer relationships, become a better listener and manage negative emotions. Dropping Out book one gives you the reasons why you should stay in school; book two gives you all the tools you need to follow through and get your diploma.