ARISE is Perfect for Youth Employment Programs

Cities and organizations that want to provide employment for youth should consider that getting them a job is only half of what they must do to help them. Organizations working with these youth best serve them by teaching the necessary practical skills to get and keep a job—the soft skills that prepare youth to understand how the world works and what is expected of them. They can do that by using the ARISE Four Wheel Drive for the Mind: Networking, Jobs and Money curriculum.

This book is designed to help youth learn job readiness skills such as filling out job applications, interviewing for a job, reading bus schedules, budgeting their salary, opening bank accounts, exploring the market for the right credit and debit cards and so much more. ARISE curricula prepare youth to meet the future by handling problems and difficult situations commonly encountered in daily life.

Youth employment programs need to focus on the soft skills as well as the vocational aspects of a particular job. A good addition to job readiness skills are the ARISE Four Wheel Drive for the Mind: Learning Strategies and Time Management lessons where the youth learn decision making, productive thinking, and time management skills, and how to set short and long term goals.

Want to learn more about conducting these lessons in your employment program? ARISE offers staff training courses to teach individuals how to facilitate ARISE sessions on job skills and hundreds of other topics. ARISE even offers a Master (Train-the-Trainer) course to enable staff members to train their colleagues at your organization. Check the ARISE Training Calendar for upcoming training dates and locations. Trainings can also be scheduled at your location for minimum of 12 participants.

10 Quotes About Attitude, Brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

The world we live in is never black and white. The universe is colored by the way you look at it—attitude determines whether you see just the black cloud, or its silver lining. Attitude isn’t determined by how much money you make, how you were raised, where you live or the people around you. What makes a positive attitude so powerful is its ability to exist independently, and sometimes in spite of, the world around you.

Here are 10 quotes about attitude.

1. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” —Carlos Castaneda
2. “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
3. “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.” —Henry David Thoreau
4. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” —Marcus Aurelius
5. “The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”      —Martha Washington
6. “Everything can be taken from man but the last of human freedoms—the ability to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” —Victor Frankl
7. “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” —William James
8. “An optimist is the human personification of Spring.” —Susan J. Bissonette
9. “Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” —Richard Bach
10. “To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Changing your attitude can be difficult. If you need a little help, try taking an ARISE CHOICES: Drop it at the Door workshop. The CHOICES training teaches you how to let go of anger, resentment and stress, especially in the workplace. The goal of the CHOICES training is to stop the “boomerang” effect of taking work-related stress home, and carrying worry about home issues to work. CHOICES participants learn how to drop stress, anger and negativity “at the door,” improving both their work and home lives.

To sign up for the DIATD training or find out more information about ARISE Foundation’s other programs, visit the ARISE website or call TOLL FREE:  1 (888) 680-6100 .