MEDIA RELEASE
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
The ARISE program reaches historic milestone in Florida’s juvenile justice system where
delinquent youth are held in custody statewide.
ARISE-certified Life-Skills Group Facilitators across the state have conducted—in one month— almost 27,000 hours of evidence-based interactions with groups of incarcerated at-risk youth in their care.

The strength-based ARISE group sessions last approximately one hour and focus on what the youth are doing right, not on anti-social activities or infractions. The ARISE model is based on discovering, highlighting and rewarding individual strengths. Juvenile offenders are guided by ARISE Group Facilitators through easily understood, interactive, real-world life lessons created specifically for those working with aggressive, academically, motivationally and emotionally challenged youth. Read more…
Lucinda Worrell, was instrumental in bringing the ARISE program to Bermuda in 2007. An ARISE Master Trainer from the states trained 18 public school teachers as ARISE Group Facilitators. The following is a recent email printed below with permission from Ms. Worrell one of the most genuine and dedicated individuals we have ever met.
Here is what she had to say about the ARISE program:
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