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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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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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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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. There are 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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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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ARISE's Contribution to Juvenile Justice Reform

Studies are showing that keeping juvenile and young adult offenders closer to home produces better outcomes at lower costs than confinement behind razor wire fences and steel doors. Juvenile justice reform…at last!

ARISE time tested, evidence based prevention and early intervention programs creates a platform for juveniles to develop strong bonds with their ARISE trained Life Skills Group Facilitators who act as mentors, right in the youths’ own neighborhoods.

ARISE groups introduce troubled youth to new possibilities, the know-how to bounce back from setbacks, connect with others and become the best version of themselves.

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The ARISE Formula represents a quarter of a century of tweaking

The ARISE formula is the framework that assists in presenting ALL ARISE materials in a structured, interactive way. The youth experience (many for the first time) that they are now part of this learning experience. The formula assists in establishing relationships within the group encompassing the facilitator and youth. Participants "feel" how this social interaction differs from other learning experiences they may have experienced in their young lives.

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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.

ARISE Work In Progress - 4 Book 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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ARISE Four Wheel Drive for the Mind - 3 Book 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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ARISE Sprouts, A Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting - 5 Book 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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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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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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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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ARISE Brainfood - 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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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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ARISE Basic Health 101 - 2 Book Series

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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ARISE Drop Out Prevention - 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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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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ARISE Life Skills for Young Folks - 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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ARISE Little by Little - Pre Kindergarten - 3 Book 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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Full 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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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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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 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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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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Collaborating with Organizations

ARISE now has the rare opportunity of collaborating with organizations in the USA and around the world dedicated to helping at-risk youth grow into healthy, successful adults who will become change agents for future generations.

For over 25 years, ARISE, a non-profit foundation has written, developed, published, trained and otherwise demonstrated its evidence based curricula and staff training programs work in a wide variety of settings.

Please contact the ARISE founders with your ideas, goals and opportunities at, thefounders@arisefoundation.org.

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