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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.

Complete Anger Management Course

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.

Lets Educate Youth Not Incarcerate Them

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 Family Tools Package

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

Palm Beach Gardens

5-Day ARISE Master Drop It at The Door Training

3001 PGA Blvd.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Jan. 9-13, 2012

9am - 4:30pm

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One Judiciary Square, D.C.

2-Day ARISE Life Skills

One Judiciary Square

441 4th St. NW, Washington DC

Feb. 7-8, 2012

8:30am - 4:30pm

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Seacoast Bank

2-Day ARISE Life Skills

Seacoast National Bank

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Feb. 13-14, 2012

9am - 4:30pm

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One Judiciary Square, D.C.

5-Day ARISE Life Skills Master Training

One Judiciary Square

441 4th St. NW, Washington DC

March 12-16, 2012

8:30am - 4:30pm

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Seacoast Bank

2-Day ARISE Life Skills

Seacoast National Bank

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

April 23-24, 2012

9am - 4:30pm

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Real People - Real Organizations NO BULL

Actual results from ARISE Trainings






Bryan Coleman: ARISE Anger Management Course

"At first, I thought it was just like the other program I had completed about 3 years ago. Yet after a few modules I found it to be quite on the contrary. Not only did your program progress in a smooth straight forward way, but I found myself able to understand anger and actually become engrossed in the modules, anticipating the next.

I found many things in my everyday accounts that would cause my anger to boil to proportions that would get me into trouble, one way or another, which before your classes, I never even recognized them as such. I am now able to press toward any mark I set before myself and not become angry in a traffic jam, while waiting on a delayed bus, at a movie while people are being rude talking during the showing…ect."

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Former Gov. of CA


"I am going to tell the world about ARISE's fantastic program."

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Barbara Fernandez: Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts Office


"Today's workshop was not only enjoyable, but provided information I can use on the job and at home."

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Detective J. Nubin: Riviera Beach Police Department

“The information was very helpful in dealing with ideal ways to release stress, tension and anger. This is very helpful when working with so many officers who are already stressed out from the job of working with citizen cases that involve homicide, battery and everyday life in the police department. This information can be applied to all at work and home.”

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Mattie Broxton: Salvation Army, Pensacola, Florida


“ I found the lessons on self esteem and anger management very helpful. These two issues are what I see in most people I see in my office. Working in groups was really most helpful. I feel prepared to teach ARISE Life Skills Lessons because of attending this training.”

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Barbara Fernandez: Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts Office

"Today's workshop was not only enjoyable, but provided information I can use on the job and at home.

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Robert Cameron: Palm Beach Juvenile Justice Center, FL

“I learned a lot on how to approach kids with a positive attitude and apply my new skills with everyday life. I now know how to create an activity to reinforce learning. (ARISE Life Skills Training)”

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John Salzer: ACTS

“Thank you!! We love using ARISE here, it is perfect for our needs and for the kids we work with.”

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Elma Adame: Superintendent, Polk Regional Juvenile Detention Center

“I would like to thank you, your staff for all the support and services that you have provided to this facility and the youth in our care, throughout the years. Your commitment to the at-risk youth in our community is a gift, which can have a lasting positive impact on their lives and is very much appreciated by my staff and me.”

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Carol Lang: MSW, LCSW, Divisional Social Services Director, The Salvation Army

“The ARISE curricula is an outstanding tool for at-risk kids that The Salvation Army works with on a daily basis. Our work with this population involves children who have moved from location to location, lived out of their cars, on the streets, and who have had to change schools frequently. These children have not been able to form relationships or establish roots because of the transient nature of their parent’s lives.

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Stephen C. Mullis: Central Regional Director, Detention Services, Department of Juvenile Justice

“ARISE has been involved with providing training and services to juvenile detention staff for the past several years. I would like to express the overwhelmingly positive feedback I have received from those staff with regards to your training. The Drop It At The Door training has provided these staff with new concepts and ideas about themselves, their work, and the youth…”

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Brandon Kyle, Community Center Programs Director, The Salvation Army, North Portland, OR

"I am please to report that our incorporation of the ARISE Big Kids Book of Life Lessons, and ARISE Work In Progress: Anger Management, curricula has been a success with our at-risk youth in North Portland, OR.


The ARISE curriculum has done an outstanding job of challenging each child on a personal level and as a team, and creates a dialogue for some of life’s most difficult issues. In a short time since introducing them to ARISE, we have seen laughter and tears, kids go from being closed, shy, and introverted, to being able to share their concerns and experiences with new friends."

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Kenneth Cecil, Clinical Manager, Department of Public Welfare

"We recently started using the Anger Management and Violence & Conflict curricula in two of our facilities. Both the staff and youth involved in these groups report overwhelmingly positive experiences from the sessions. Our youth are more engaged in these groups with higher levels of participation. We are very pleased with the ARISE format and the ongoing support that we have received after our initial training."

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Feirmon E. Johnson, Chief Probation Office, Juvenile Assessment Center

"A belated Happy Birthday Wish, and a wish that God will continue to bless you in all of your endeavors as you continue to provide ARISE services to families, children, youth, staff and employees around the State and Country. Be assured that many have benefited in their growth and development in working and dealing with numerous situation that confront them thanks to your programs"

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Jayme Rowe, Director-Juvenile Programs

"We recently completed the first year of our life skills program for juvenile offenders in the City of Norman, Oklahoma. This Program has been a resounding success and has earned positive reviews from prosecutors, educators, parents and even the juveniles. When we began working with ARISE to develop the curriculum for our Program, we were novices in the life skills arena. We just knew the youthful offenders we saw in our juvenile court didn’t have the tools they needed to succeed."

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Youth Testimonials


S.H. : DC Cares

“ I enjoy the ARISE because they taught me how to think before I act and not to allow others to control me.”

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R.H. : Polk Regional Juvenile Detention Center

"Arise Four Wheel drive for the Mind books taught me how to have better coping skills and better self esteem. It also taught me to control my actions and that is good because I never controlled my actions”.

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J.F. : Orange Regional Juvenile Detention Center

“I like the ARISE books because they don’t sugar coat it for us. They tell us how it is in prison. They tell us they don’t like us being here. They talk to us for hours trying to get us to change our ways., They tell us about kids doing 10 years , 15 years or life for a crime with a gun. They tell us about reality. I like that you can talk about the seriousness of our charges that they aren’t a joke.”

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Y : District of Columbia Group Home

“I enjoy working in these books because they're very fun and easy to do. Everything I'm going through is in these books.”

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ARISE Online

About ARISE Foundation

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.

 

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25 Plus Years of Experience

About ARISE Foundation

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.

 

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About Us

About ARISE Foundation

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.

 

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Latest Eval Report

ARISE Foundation Evaluation 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.

 

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Univ. of Miami

University of Miami Evaluation

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.


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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.

 

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Training Statistics

Juvenile Facilities Teach ARISE

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.

 

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Curricula Preview

About ARISE Foundation

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 Book 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.

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Product: FWD Series

ARISE Four Wheel Drive Book 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


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Product: Sprouts Series

ARISE Sprouts Book 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.


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Product: Teen Anger Danger

ARISE Teen Anger Prevention

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.

 

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Product: Gangs

ARISE Gang Prevention Book

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.


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Product: Enoughs Enough

ARISE Enoughs Enough Book

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.


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Product: BrainFood Series

ARISE BrainFood Book 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.


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Training: Anger Course

ARISE Anger Management 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.


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Product: Basic Health 101 Series

ARISE Basic Health 101 Books

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.


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Product: Drop Out Prevention

Drop Out Prevention - A 2 Book Series

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..


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Product: When Theres Trouble

When Theres Trouble Book

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.


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Product: Life Skills 4 Young Folk

Life Skills for Young Folks Books

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.


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Product: Little By Little – Pre-K

Little by Little Pre School Books

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.


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Deck of Positivity Cards

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.


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Motivational Posters

ARISE 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!

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Custom Books

ARISE Customized Books and Posters

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.


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ARISE in Spanish

Books 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.


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Donate Today

Donate to ARISE

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.


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Around The World

ARISE Around The World and Singapore

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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