- ARISE 20 hour online Life Skills Instructor training is created specifically for individuals & organizations who work with at-risk youth. Enjoyable-Affordable-Interactive. ARISE’s 25 years of experience guarantees your success. Click the banner to start!
- Anger is one of the most difficult emotions to dominate, and if not controlled, can be destructive and contribute to major problems throughout life. The complete course in Anger Management reboots and replaced bad old habits.
- ARISE provides cost-effective, justice-minded programs that produces positive, results for LESS THAN $1.00 An Hour of instruction. Perfect for community based organizations and others with limited funding.
- ARISE can train your staff to conduct ARISE life-skills group sessions in neighborhoods close to homes of low-risk offenders in non-residential, diversionary and alternative settings. It’s Time to reboot the way we have been punishing juvenile offenders.
- A lifetime supply of social and emotional tools that will be learned and shared by family members for generations. Each of the 12-90 minute weekly gatherings is packed with transformative, fun and guided activities.
- ARISE curricula and Training is based on social and emotional learning. This is all about people becoming better at understanding and managing emotions i.e. anger and learning how emotions impact the choices they make.
Upcoming Training
5-Day ARISE Master Drop It at The Door Training
3001 PGA Blvd.
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Jan. 9-13, 2012
9am - 4:30pm
2-Day ARISE Life Skills
One Judiciary Square
441 4th St. NW, Washington DC
Feb. 7-8, 2012
8:30am - 4:30pm
2-Day ARISE Life Skills
Seacoast National Bank
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Feb. 13-14, 2012
9am - 4:30pm
5-Day ARISE Life Skills Master Training
One Judiciary Square
441 4th St. NW, Washington DC
March 12-16, 2012
8:30am - 4:30pm
2-Day ARISE Life Skills
Seacoast National Bank
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
April 23-24, 2012
9am - 4:30pm
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ARISE Online
Establish YOUR OWN Life and Social Skills Program for at risk youth
Today individuals and organizations concerned with effectively (and inexpensively) providing at risk youth with the social and emotional skills needed to lead job related, crime free lives are now able to conduct successful, interactive ARISE group sessions. Right now, it is possible to professionally train Life Skills instructors using the ARISE online staff training and curricula.
For a limited time, cost is a onetime charge of $199 and includes this brand new 20 hour, interactive, online training course plus ARISE's time tested Formula. Also included, and downloadable, is the best selling ARISE Anger Management curricula. Additional life skills materials, downloadable as eBooks, are available at a 50% savings from our conventional printed curricula.
25 Plus Years of Experience
ARISE's 25 Plus Years of Experience
ARISE offers you on line training with the freedom to call no charge (USA) and speak to a living, breathing, knowledgeable ARISE senior trainer.
As a non-profit, the ARISE founders Susan and Edmund Benson insisted this online experience be uncomplicated, inexpensive, interactive, absorbing and ...yes, as much fun as the live in person training groups Arise conducts throughout the year with the same documented and excellent results.
About Us
About Us
ARISE is a non-profit, created in 1986, that provides a rich assortment of time tested, evidence-based life skills curricula for at-risk youth. ARISE also offers staff training that enhances the effectiveness of those who care for troubled youth and adolescents.
We have created programs that focus on priceless advice parents and grandparents once shared as families sat around the kitchen table at the end of the day.
Latest Eval Report
The latest ARISE Evaluation Report
The ARISE Evidence-Based life skills curricula and staff training programs have been evaluated in several independent evidence-based studies.
The Recidivism/re-adjudication are significantly better. Significant improvements in youth's empathy and violence-related aggressive behavior as well as significant improvement in staff attitude toward youth and documented altercations.
Univ. of Miami
ARISE Life Skills Curricula and Staff Training is Evidence Based
During the past 25 years, not one but two University of Miami tenured professors attested to the effectiveness of ARISE life-skills curricula and staff trainings in evidence-based studies. Evaluation data over a five-year period show significant improvement in knowledge of issues included in the program's content; violence reduction, goal setting, anger management, drugs and alcohol avoidance and other life management skills.
Formula
The ARISE Formula
The ARISE formula is a framework that allows you to present ALL ARISE materials in a structured, fun and interactive way.
Over 25 years of Educating at-risk youth guarantees ARISE will work for you.
Training Statistics
Training Residential, Detention & Probation Officers Among Others
As of 11/23/2011, ARISE has trained and certified over 5,588 Group Facilitators.
These ARISE Life Skills Group Facilitators have gone on to teach more than 4,830,857 documented hours of ARISE of Life Skills Lessons to incarcerated and at risk youth.
Curricula Preview
The Following ARISE Life Skills material below are samples of the youth friendly, evidence based, transformative ARISE curricula . ARISE has written interactive, attention grabbing activities in plain, unadulterated English that enables youth to easily understand and retain each learning experience. This quality information assists youth in making lasting changes in their lives.
During the past 25 plus years ARISE curricula has empowered tens of thousands of angry, aggressive and combative youth to make the positive lifestyle changes they need to become productive members of society. Please, click on the "ARISE MATERIAL & MORE" at the top of this page to view all ARISE Life Skills curricula.
Product: WIP Series
ARISE Work In Progress Series
This fascinating four-part series uses role-play, games, open conversation and fun exercises to teach learners how to handle anger, deal with domestic abuse, avoid drugs and alcohol and resolve conflict. This unique series is a comprehensive “crash course” in life-skills. Down-to-earth and engaging, Work-In-Progress and all ARISE curricula cater to learners who may have difficulty reading and writing.
Product: FWD Series
ARISE Four Wheel Drive for the Mind Series
Navigating the rocky road to adulthood can be challenging. Four Wheel Drive provides the extra traction needed for success. Help teenagers conquer their fears and achieve their dreams in life. This compelling collection features engaging stories, short lessons and helpful strategies specifically designed to entertain learners while teaching them how to believe in themselves, network, job search, manage their money and negotiate wisely for everything they want in life
Product: Sprouts Series
ARISE Sprouts, A Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting Series
Sprouts educates young people about the daunting tasks of pregnancy and childbirth, child development, building a family, single parenting and child safety. Both cautionary and instructional, Sprouts covers everything from prenatal nutrition to stress management to raising a happy, healthy child. This compelling resource uses simple language, role-playing activities and thoughtful exercises to help prevent teen pregnancy by graphically describing the huge responsibility of parenting.
Product: Teen Anger Danger
ARISE Teen Anger Danger
These 50+ memorable stories about teens dealing with anger and the consequences of their choices will help at risk youth hit the stop button on their anger danger by out thinking, not out fighting.
Why are the ARISE Anger Danger stories and illustrations on the way to becoming all-time best sellers to instructors teaching anger management classes? Because everyone loves a story, and because the corresponding activities are easy to understand. They are interactive, and written specifically to be taught in group settings to at risk youth prone to zoning out in class.
Product: Gangs
ARISE Gangs: 50 + Stories of Fractured Lives
Joining a gang is an easy way to destroy a life. But when teens refuse to listen to the authority figures who do their best to prevent this life altering decision, do we just give up? ARISE says NO! The best way to get messages across to teens is for them to hear it from each other. Gangs 50+ Stories of Fractured Lives contains firsthand stories of how dangerous life in a gang really is. Each story was handpicked to illustrate a critical point.
This book contains 206 pages packed with information to aid any life skills or gang prevention program in saving young lives.
Product: Enoughs Enough
ARISE Enough's Enough
Teens may not listen to authority figures, but they do listen to each other. These first hand 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. Also included are interviews with adult and juvenile inmates who talk about their gang experiences as well as posters and discussion questions to use with the stories.
Product: BrainFood Series
ARISE Brainfood - The Complete 6-Book Series plus Teaching Guide
If grandparents sat down and emptied their heads of all the wisdom accumulated over 60 or 70 years, the ARISE Brain Food books are what they would come up with. Brain Food teaches priceless secrets for success.
Brain Food uses short, to-the-point exercises and inside tips to help learners make the most of their lives and become thriving adults.
Training: Anger Course
The Complete ARISE Anger Management Course
On a day to day basis, we all undergo a constant fluctuation of emotions. From experience, we’ve learned how to manage these, keeping them from overwhelming our mind and manipulating our lives. However, anger is one of the most difficult emotions to dominate, and if not controlled, can be destructive and contribute to major problems throughout life.
ARISE provides this Complete Course in Anger Management. Using the material presented in this course, the participants will not only experience a dramatic decrease in anger, they will also learn to control their emotions in times of severe stress and anxiety.
Product: Basic Health 101 Series
ARISE Basic Health 101
Basic Health 101 uses interactive learning exercises, puzzles and games to teach health and hygiene, nutrition and exercise fundamentals—perfect for those who give little to no thought to maintaining their well-being. This series teaches students how healthy people get in shape and stay that way. It also covers personal hygiene, nutrition and exercise.
Product: Drop Out Prevention
ARISE Drop Out Prevention - A 2 Book Series
Dropping out of school is like dropping something heavy on your foot: it hurts you and keeps you from moving forward. Book 1 of the ARISE dropout prevention series, So You're Thinking of Dropping Out of School?, paint a clear picture of how difficult life can be for a high school dropout.
In an effort to turn the tide, ARISE created a riveting series on dropout prevention. Book 2, titled So You’re Thinking of Staying in School?, focuses on the skills youth need to successfully complete their education..
Product: When Theres Trouble
ARISE When There's Trouble, Who Do You Call?
Created for School Resource Officers, this book covers serious issues such as graffiti, drugs, gang violence, suicide, gun safety, self-esteem and anger management.
ARISE When There’s Trouble, Who Do You Call? is designed specifically to be taught by law enforcement officers who have no previous teaching experience. Students learn what to do in dangerous situations. They are also taught the best way to act when confronted by a law enforcement officer.
Product: Life Skills 4 Young Folk
ARISE Life Skills for Young Folks - A 2 Book Series
The best thing we can do for our children is teach them to be responsible for themselves and the environment. Volume I provides interactive lessons on making good choices about personal safety (guns, graffiti and more) and protecting our environment.
Volume 2 includes easy-to-understand interactive lessons on self-esteem, bicycle safety, water safety, exercise, time management, sun safety, fire safety, worries, self-care, sports safety and safety at home.
Product: Little By Little – Pre-K
ARISE Little by Little - Pre Kindergarten Series
Designed to nurture growing minds, the Little by Little books use arts and crafts and one-on-one activities to inspire young imaginations, build self-esteem and teach key life skills
Preschool children will love learning their phone numbers in case of an emergency, important safety tips, and early lessons on respect and ethics through rousing songs, games and art projects.
Deck of Positivity Cards
Deck of ARISE Positivity Cards
Can’t decide which ARISE Positivity Cards you like best? Then get all 110 images! This specially priced ARISE Positivity Card pack comes with an assortment of fifty five (55) ARISE Positivity Cards.
There are two sides to every card. They are life lessons reduced to just a few words using memorable, often amusing concepts and beautiful graphics. ARISE Positivity Cards offer quick, enjoyable lessons that create educational and motivational opportunities that promote discussion. ARISE Positivity Cards can be used to Talk, Draw, Sing, Brainstorm, Simplify, Play, Reflect, Connect, Laugh, and more.
Motivational Posters
ARISE Motivational Posters
One picture can be worth a thousand words. Many of the youth we work with have difficulty reading. This is what makes ARISE Motivational Posters So Important.
All ARISE Motivational Posters are laminated to help preserve the poster for many years. Hundreds to choose from. Check out our Positive Door Posters too!
Custom Books
ARISE Custom Books
Your School, Your Organization - Your Program
Why not have the name of your organization on the covers of your curricula Material? As curricula Developers and Publishers, ARISE can make that happen.
ARISE in Spanish
ARISE en Español
ARISE es una organización sin fines de lucro creada en 1986 que, mediante un sistema práctico, conciso y basado en situaciones reales, ofrece un extenso plan de estudios para jóvenes en situación de alto riesgo.
También ofrecemos formación de personal, con la finalidad de reforzar resultados para aquellas personas interesadas en ayudar a jóvenes y adolescentes con problemas mediante los cursos ARISE.
Donate Today
Help Save Young Lives Today by Making a Charitable Donation
With your tax-deductible donations, ARISE will turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones for the toughest kids on the planet.
It is the ARISE Mission to introduce valuable life skills lessons to at-risk youth, enabling these young women/men to achieve their highest potential as law abiding citizens.
Around The World
ARISE Around The World
ARISE lessons are now being taught in Singapore! This is another example of ARISE's love of sharing their amazing curricula and training programs, created over the past 25 years, with the youth and staff in Singapore and beyond.
As a non-profit foundation, ARISE has the rare opportunity of collaborating with organizations in the USA and around the world without the necessity of considering costs, revenue generation, or the almighty bottom line profits.
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