ARISE Life Skills Curricula Staff Training

Evidence-Based

Evidence-Based Reports and Evaluations

ARISE life-skills programs are based on three psychological models. We pride ourselves on the work we have accomplished and have been positively evaluated by several evidence-based studies. During the past 10 years, not one, not two, but three University of Miami tenured professors attested to the effectiveness of ARISE life-skills curricula and staff trainings in evidence-based studies. Please feel free to review the University of Miami study as well as other progress reports that we have submitted to various agencies about our work. If you have any questions, contact us.

• ARISE 5-year Evidence-Based Executive Summary (University of Miami) 1997-2002

Justice Research Center – Success Excerpt

ARISE is currently undergoing a new evidence-based evaluation. This study is an 18-month program that began in September of 2008 to measure the effectiveness of ARISE Staff Training and Life-Skills lessons on the staff and youth of Thompson Academy. This preliminary success excerpt submitted by Kristin Parsons Winokur, Ph.D. of the Justice Research Center shows some brief statistics on how well the program is currently operating. Upon the completion of this research study, ARISE will make the full results publicly available.

ARISE JRC Success Excerpt

Program Evaluations

Societies’ Return on Investment (SROI) – A report on the benefits the ARISE Life Skills Program has on High Risk Youth.

• ARISE and Societies’ Return on Investment (1 page)
• ARISE and Societies’ Return on Investment (23 pages)

State of Florida – Juvenile Justice Program

• ARISE Final Report for Life-Management Skills OJJDP – 2006/2007
• ARISE Final Report for Life-Management Skills OJJDP – 2006/2007
• ARISE Final Report for Life-Management Skills OJJDP – 2005/2006
• ARISE Final Report for Life-Management Skills OJJDP – 2004/2005
• ARISE Final Report for Life-Management Skills OJJDP – 2003/2004
• ARISE Final Report for Life-Management Skills OJJDP – 2002/2003

State of Florida – Juvenile Justice Focus Group Results

• ARISE Focus Groups at FL DJJ Facilities 2007
• ARISE Focus Groups at Avon Park Youth Academy (CHOICES 2-Day Training 2007)
• ARISE Focus Groups at FL DJJ Facilities 2006
• ARISE Focus Groups at FL DJJ Facilities 2005

State of Florida – Juvenile Justice Recidivism Data

• ARISE Foundation Recidivism Check June 19, 1998
• ARISE Foundation Recidivism Check May 1998
• ARISE Foundation Recidivism Check December 4, 1997
• FL DJJ Memo Regarding ARISE Secrets of Success Pilot Program, October 9, 1995

District of Columbia Community Based Organizations – Juvenile Justice Programs

• ARISE DC Evaluation Report 2006-2007
• ARISE DC Evaluation Report 2005-2006

Title IV Department of Education Florida – Community Service Grant

• Title IV Evaluation Report 2003-2004

Investment Summaries – How we are doing?

• ARISE Florida Investment Summary 2007
• ARISE DC Investment Report 2004-2007
• ARISE Scorecard FL 2004-2005
• ARISE Scorecard DC 2004-2005

Evaluator CVs

• CV of Barbara Morrison-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Evaluator for 2007 OJJDP Final Report.
• CV of Marjorie Montague, Ph.D., Evaluator for 2002-2006 OJJDP Final Reports, ARISE Focus Groups at FL DJJ Facilities 2005-2006, DC Evaluation Report 2005-2006, and Title IV Evaluator for Report 2003-2004.
• CV of Natalie Ciarocco, Ph.D., Evaluator for DC Evaluation Reports 2006-2007, Additional Evaluation for Final Report for OJJDP 2006/2007, ARISE Focus Groups at FL DJJ Facilities 2007, and ARISE Focus Groups at Avon Park Youth Academy on CHOICES 2-Day Training 2007.