ARISE to conduct its Renowned Master Training Workshop in Marianna with a Select Group of Florida Juvenile Justice Staff.

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ARISE Foundation
824 US HWY 1 Suite #240
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
Phone: (561) 630-2021
Fax: (561) 630-2790
 
Contact: Edmund Benson
Office 561-630-2021

 
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISE to conduct its Renowned Master Training Workshop in Marianna with a Select Group of Florida Juvenile Justice Staff.

ARISE Master Life Skills Certification gives juvenile justice staff the understanding and assurance they need to assume leadership roles and teach others how to facilitate ARISE life skills groups.

ARISE Foundation will conduct its Master Life Skills Training workshop October 5^th through 9^th at Chipola College, 3094 Indian Circle. This groundbreaking five-day course will run from 9:00 to 4:30 each day.

Participants in this remarkable workshop will be able to take what they have learned and effectively train others at their organization to lead lively group discussions and activities with the troubled youth and young adults in their charge. The “Big 10” interactive group activities are designed to draw troubled youth out of their shells, get them talking and make them feel listened to and respected. ARISE life-skills lessons are tailor-made for learners with reading and learning deficiencies and severe behavioral issues. The Master Life Skills trainers will teach others how to steer youth in the right direction by providing new facilitators with the know-how to use the breakthrough ARISE curricula to help disadvantaged youth grasp life’s unwritten rules. Among the 260 life lessons ARISE has created are anger and conflict management, self-esteem, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and job search skills.

For almost 25 years, ARISE, a nonprofit foundation, has functioned as a developer and publisher of life-management skills curricula and staff training programs. Created to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities as well as other troubled youth, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults.  ARISE programs consist of interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and capture the attention of even the most introverted participants.

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 workshop, such as this one in Marianna, certifies participants to train others as ARISE Life Skills Group Facilitators at their respective facilities. ARISE 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 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 three 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 Yasmin at ARISE toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit http://www.ariselife-skills.org.

ARISE Works With Some of the Toughest Kids in Florida and the Most Dedicated Caregivers on the Planet.

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.

Edmund Benson, co-founder of ARISE, celebrates his 80th birthday by contributing over 100 life management skills curricula to the international nonprofit community.

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.

Benson and his wife Susan created the nonprofit ARISE Foundation in 1986. The foundation has since trained and certified over five thousand group facilitators who have taught over four million documented hours of ARISE life-skills lessons in Florida alone. ARISE programs are also used throughout the US, in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Botswana and Kazakhstan.

ARISE life-skills lessons are designed to engage at-risk populations with interactive, entertaining, easy-to-understand lessons about important topics such as anger management, self-esteem, peer pressure, gang avoidance, drug and alcohol prevention, the power of networking, interviewing and keeping a job, domestic abuse, etiquette and manners, conflict resolution, bullying and violence prevention, health and hygiene, stress management, stranger safety and much more.

ARISE lessons have a memorable impact on troubled youth because, for the most part, they are conducted by ARISE-trained group facilitators who carry out guided group discussions with exciting activities that are easily understood and put into practice. ARISE group facilitators inspire conversation, involvement and interest. The ARISE life-skills lessons are not sequential. Each stands on its own, making them ideal for transient populations. Everyone starts fresh with each new learning experience.

ARISE life-management skills curricula are used in public, alternative and charter schools, juvenile justice facilities, residential treatment centers, faith-based organizations, Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s After School All-Stars program and organizations that educate orphans and other troubled youth around the world. The programs are written for underachieving pre-k, elementary, and middle school children, teens, and young adults with limited reading and writing capabilities. The ARISE life-management skills program succeeds with youth who have behavior issues and special needs. Those non-profit organizations interested in the ARISE free creative licensing program can communicate directly with Edmund Benson by calling 561-630-2021 (overseas); in the US, call (toll-free)888-680-6100 or visit the ARISE website at http://www.ariselife-skills.org to download the creative license kit and get more information. #####

Conversations Behind Razor Wire—ARISE Interviews Incarcerated Gang Members.

For its upcoming book, filled with stories about the dangers of gang life, ARISE Foundation interviewed several incarcerated young gang members about their experiences.

As part of its mission to write life skills curricula that is authentic and realistic, ARISE founder Edmund Benson went to a juvenile correctional facility August 7 and sat down with several young gang members in an effort to hear their stories and give them a chance to warn at-risk young people about the perils of gang life.

Teens may not listen to authority figures, but they do listen to each other. Firsthand stories of the constant fear, danger and violence of life inside a gang are a way to reach young people on the cusp of making the life-destroying decision to join a gang. Quotes from the interviewed gang members will be included in ARISE Foundation’s new upcoming collection of stories about gangs, written by people from all over the country. Each story was handpicked to illustrate a critical point. Topics range from the disastrous effects gang life has on someone’s family members to how easy it is to lose your life to gang violence. The stories illustrate, using plaintive, stark language, how easy it is to get caught up in the endless cycle of revenge that gang members live in every day.

The three interviewed gang members spoke candidly about the actions that led them to their incarceration. One 17 year-old, who joined a gang at age 12, spoke of the constant nightmares that plague him.

“The worst part of being in a gang,” he said, “is every night when you go to bed, you see the faces of the people you hurt, and your friends that got killed. That’s the hardest part, the nightmares.”

ARISE hopes to duplicate the success of one of their most popular books, “31 of Taneka’s Urban Tales,” with this new anthology of captivating stories.

For more information please call ARISE Founder Edmund Benson at ARISE toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit ariselife-skills.org.

ARISE gives Pinellas Marine Institute staff the skills they need to prevent at-risk juvenile offenders from dropping out of school.

 

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ARISE Foundation
824 US HWY 1 Suite #240
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
Phone: (561) 630-2021
Fax: (561) 630-2790

CONTACT: EDMUND BENSON
Office 561-630-2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISE gives Pinellas Marine Institute staff the skills they need to prevent at-risk juvenile offenders from dropping out of school.

The two-day ARISE Life Skills Facilitator training workshop will show participants how to lead exciting ARISE group discussions and activities.

ARISE Certified Master Trainer Star Moran will conduct a two-day Life-Skills Facilitator Training at Pinellas Marine Institute in St. Petersburg, FL August 24 and 25. PMI is a Department of Juvenile Justice contracted program serving youth 14-18 years of age who have been frequently delinquent or expelled from public school. The school uses the ARISE curricula as part of its intensive dropout prevention program.

The ARISE Life Skills Instructor Certification program is part of a comprehensive approach to getting at-risk youth back on track. The freshly-certified instructors emerge from training with confidence and a thorough knowledge of how to engage troubled youth in active group discussions and awaken their sense of creativity, cooperation and self-worth. Not only are staff members taught how to build relationships with kids that rebel against authority figures, but they are also provided with the innovative ARISE life skills curricula. The ARISE library was designed to educate youth who may have trouble reading and writing. Each lesson appeals to learners of every age and scholastic ability. The pages are easy to read and packed with attention-grabbing activities that teach valuable life skills such as anger management, substance abuse prevention, gang avoidance, interview and job search skills, health and hygiene, STD awareness and much more.

For over 20 years, ARISE has operated as a developer and publisher of Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities as well as other troubled youth, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults. ARISE programs consist of interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and grab the attention of even the most reserved participants. ARISE is particularly appropriate for youth with special requirements such as limited reading and/or writing ability and behavioral problems.

In its home state of Florida, ARISE 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, including the Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs and alternative schools.

ARISE programs are also used in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and 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.

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 across the United States. ARISE is currently being used in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia 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, or to sign up for training, please call Yasmin Isaacs at ARISE toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit ariselife-skills.org.

Drop it at the Door: ARISE gives New Mexico teachers the skills they need to reject negative emotions.

ARISE Foundation
824 US HWY 1 Suite #240
North Palm Beach, FL 33408
Phone: (561) 630-2021
Fax: (561) 630-2790

CONTACT: EDMUND BENSON
Office 561-630-2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Drop it at the Door: ARISE gives New Mexico teachers the skills they need to reject negative emotions.

ARISE will journey cross-country to bring anger and stress management to the staff of Academy of Trades and Technologies.

Continuing its effort to bring anger management and stress prevention to those that work with at-risk youth, ARISE Foundation will conduct its CHOICES: Drop it at the Door workshop at ATT in Albuquerque, New Mexico August 11 and 12. The Academy of Trades and Technologies is a vocational-technical high school for at-risk teens. The Academy offers students design and construction classes as well as assistance with mental health, housing and healthcare. The mission of the Academy is to not only give their students a viable career, but to steer them away from the at-risk lifestyles many of them were living before they enrolled in the Academy. Intervention Coordinator Colleen Chavez uses much of the ARISE life skills curricula and conducts group discussions with the teens about gang prevention, anger management, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, job search and interview skills and more.

“Our school is really their last chance resort,” Chavez said. “They’ve been kicked out of other schools and this is their last place to go. Even if they’ve been expelled from another school, we take them in. We want to get these kids job ready.”

As part of the Academy’s Professional Development Days, ARISE will conduct its intensive, two-day,
14-hour staff training workshop entitled CHOICES: Drop it at the Door. CHOICES is an innovative training that gives participants working with difficult populations the tools to handle anger and stress through making better choices in their work and personal lives. CHOICES is a perk provided by employers who want their staff to be successful both on the job and at home.

“This is a high stress job,” Chavez said. “We wanted to help ourselves de-stress. We take in a lot of negativity from these kids. How do you not take it personally?”

The training will give the staff of ATT a solid understanding of how they can make the choice to drop home- and work-related anger, stress and frustration “at the door.” CHOICES training effectively stops the boomerang effect of stress and negativity, relieving the tension and harmful emotions that can shuttle between the workplace and home. This powerful anger and stress management workshop prepares participants to deal with difficult populations. Troubled youth are often so angry that they lash out at everyone around them. ARISE trains juvenile justice staff and others that work with at-risk youth how to avoid confrontation by using proven techniques and strategies demonstrated and practiced in this unique CHOICES training.

The ARISE CHOICES: Drop It At The Door training program has been extremely successful in the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, where it has been conducted in various residential facilities. ARISE has also expanded its CHOICES program to include other government agencies such as police, corrections and probations departments that require employees to confront difficult and often dangerous situations on a daily basis.

For over 20 years, ARISE has operated as a developer and publisher of Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities and on probation, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults. ARISE programs consist of interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and grab the attention of even the most turned-off participants.

In its home state of Florida, ARISE was 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 currently being taught in 74 DJJ facilities across the state, as well as the Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs and alternative schools.

ARISE programs are also used in over 100 organizations in the District of Columbia, including 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.

A 2007 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 youth 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 4,055,788 documented hours of ARISE life-skills lessons across the United States. ARISE is also being used in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Kingdom of Bahrain. ARISE curricula are presently being translated into Kazakh, Russian. Requests for translations have also come in from as far away as Pakistan and South Africa.

For more information, or to schedule a training, please call Yasmin Isaacs toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit http://www.ariselife-skills.org

ARISE helps Florida’s Juvenile Justice staff master their staff training skills.

ARISE Master Life Skills Certification gives participants the knowledge and confidence they need to become leaders and teach others how to conduct the ARISE two-day life skills group facilitator training.

ARISE Foundation will conduct its Master Life Skills Training workshop August 3rd through the 7th at Seacoast National Bank, 3001 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens, FL. The exciting five-day course will run from 8:30 to 4:30 each day.

As ARISE Certified Master Life Skills Trainers, participants of this comprehensive workshop will be able to take what they have learned and train others at their organization on how to conduct riveting group discussions and activities with the troubled youth and young adults in their charge. The point of the group activities is to draw troubled youth out of their shells, get them talking and make them feel validated and listened to. ARISE Life Skills lessons have been specifically created for learners with substantial reading and learning deficiencies in addition to serious behavioral issues. The Master Life Skills trainers will teach others how to steer youth in the right direction by providing new trainers with the know-how to use the ARISE breakthrough curricula to help disadvantaged youth grasp life’s unwritten rules. Among the 260 life lessons ARISE has created are anger and conflict management, self esteem, parenting and job search skills.

For over 20 years, ARISE has operated as a developer and publisher of Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities and on probation, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults.  ARISE programs consist of interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and grab the attention of even the most turned-off participants.

In its home state of Florida, ARISE was 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 currently being taught in 74 DJJ facilities across the state, as well as the Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs and alternative schools.

ARISE programs are also used in over 100 organizations in the District of Columbia, including 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.

A 2007 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 youth 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  5,284 Group Facilitators who have taught over 4,011,242 documented hours of ARISE life-skills lessons across the United States. ARISE is also being used in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Kingdom of Bahrain. ARISE curricula are presently being translated into Kazakh, Russian. Requests for translations have also come in from as far away as Pakistan and South Africa.

For more information, or to schedule a training, please call Yasmin Isaacs toll free:  1 (888) 680-6100 or visit ariselife-skills.org.

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Have You Ever Been in a Gang? Tell ARISE Your Story and Get Published.

As the old saying goes, fact is often more dramatic than fiction. ARISE is working on a new book about gang prevention. The book will feature dozens of stories about gang life, meant to illustrate how difficult, dangerous and often deadly it can be. Have you ever been in a gang? Would you like to share your cautionary tale with at-risk youth? These stories will reach thousands of troubled youth. Many of them are hovering on the edge of a very slippery cliff between leading law-abiding lives and sliding into lives of crime.

Many of these young people will not sit still for a traditional classroom lesson. But give them a great story, and you have their attention. Get their attention, and you can sneak in under the radar and teach them lifesaving lessons about what gang life is really like. They need real, gritty, honest stories.

Can you tell them one?

If you have an interesting story about gang life to tell, please email it to adoucette@arisefoundation.org. The story does not necessarily have to be autobiographical, or even true. But it has to teach a lesson, and it MUST be well-written and easy to understand for people with limited reading and writing skills.

Accepted stories will become property of ARISE. Accepted stories will be published as part of the ARISE Life Skills gangs stories book , where they will be read by thousands of incarcerated and at-risk youth. This is a chance for your writing to have an amazing impact on a young person.

I look forward to reading your story.

Pictured: Juan Pancheco, former gang member, tells his story to a group of middleschoolers. Photo courtesy of North County Times, Virginia

Court-ordered community service can be pleasant with the ARISE Good Graces program.

The evening news is filled with stories of celebrities, athletes and businesspeople getting into trouble with the law. With them in mind, ARISE designed a fantastic new program which would allow those well-known members of the community to help troubled, at-risk and incarcerated youth while fulfilling their court-ordered community service obligations.

 

For over 20 years, ARISE has delivered crucial life skills straight into the hands of those who need them most: troubled young people perched on the edge of falling into the adult prison system. From anger management and self-esteem to job search skills, ARISE gives members of this vulnerable population the tools they need to become productive, law-abiding, successful citizens.

 

Individuals in need of community service hours who wish to work with ARISE have many options open to them. A celebrity does not have to end up like Naomi Campbell, cleaning toilets at the New York Port Authority Restrooms. How much better off society would have been if the Judge had directed Campbell to sponsor an ARISE Group for troubled youth. She could have been trained as an ARISE Group Facilitator, where she could have mentored youth on how to handle problems and resolve violent situations. Perhaps Campbell would have learned a few things about anger management that she could have applied to her own life. Instead, her time was spent doing menial tasks that contributed nothing to the greater good. For a $25,000 tax deductible donation, Campbell could have funded one large or two small facilities with up to 75 students enrolled in the program. One can also choose to become an ARISE Certified Life Skills Instructor and work directly with the kids. ARISE will provide everything needed to get the program off the ground, from the initial instructor training to the materials and facility. This choice gives an individual the exceptional opportunity to interact with the youth they are helping and use their own brush with the law as a cautionary tale.

 

Another option is a more hands-off approach. The individual chooses any city in the United States and decides on the size of the program, and ARISE sets up the entire turn-key operation from the ground up.

 

Another benefit of the ARISE Good Graces program is the positive exposure it can provide. After negative publicity, teaching ARISE life skills lessons or launching an ARISE program helps restore a tarnished reputation. In addition to cleaning up their public image, prominent members of the community just might find that they walk away from their ARISE Good Graces experience forever changed. Few programs offer such a far-reaching and meaningful way to reach underprivileged youth.

 

For more information, including costs, visit the ARISE website or call ARISE Founder Edmund Benson TOLL FREE at 1-888-680-6100.

Gang Prevention: 5 Ways ARISE Life Skills Lessons Help Reduce Gang Membership and Violence

What would compel a teen to join a gang? What circumstances would lead them to choose such a diffcult, dangerous path? 

Most teens just want a family. They want someone to listen to them. When their biological family isn’t around, some teens turn to gangs to find a sense of belonging. What they don’t understand is how hard gang life is and how far off track their lives can veer if they choose the path of a gang banger.

ARISE Life Skills lessons offer teens the knowledge they need to escape gang life. Here are 5 ways ARISE helps reduce gang membership and violence:

1.     ARISE Life Skills lessons offer engaging, structured, easily understood lessons. Never boring or stuffy, always interactive, ARISE lessons offer a nonthreatening way for kids and teens to voice their opinions and learn in a fun environment. Often for the first time, the youth will feel understood, valued and listened to.

2.     ARISE Life Skills Lessons give at-risk youth the tools they need to escape gang life, stay out of prison and become successful, productive members of society.  Some lessons include:

• Anger Management
• Dropout Prevention
• Conflict Resolution
• Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention
• Gun Awareness and Safety
• Domestic and Sexual Abuse
• How to Find a Job and Have a Successful Interview
• How to Manage Their Money
• Health and Hygiene
• and SO much more!

3.      ARISE Life Skills lessons are designed for youth who have difficulties with reading and writing.  There are no run-on sentences or large, difficult words. Lessons are short, non-sequential and thought-provoking.  No boredom means no acting out.

4.       ARISE trains staff members of juvenile justice facilities, churches, social agencies, afterschol programs, schools and law enforcement departments to be Certified ARISE Life Skills Instructors. Their training and experience gives them an opportunity to become mentors and confidants for the youth they interact with every day. If at-risk kids and teens have someone to confide in…a trusted adult role model…they are much less likely to join a gang in search of an open ear.

5.       ARISE lessons are taught in a group setting, giving the young participants experience listening to other viewpoints, voicing their own opinions in a constructive manner and working on activities as part of a team.  Engaging in an ARISE group life skills lesson teaches youth important communication, mediation and listening skills that they can apply in their daily lives.

For more information on ARISE Life Skills Materials and Instruction, please visit the ARISE Website.