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“Making a Difference in the Community,” FOX NEWS-29 WFLX, West Palm Beach, 08/29/07
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“ARISE,” WPXP West Palm Beach Community Report, Guests: Edmund and Susan Benson, ION TV, August 2007
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“Life Skills for Young Adults,” Guest: Dr. Natalie Ciarocco, WPXP West Palm Beach Community Report, August 2007

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ARISE Program Reaches Historic Milestone

March 11th, 2010

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…

Quote of the Day #70

March 10th, 2010

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

- Toni Morrison

Quote of the Day #69

March 9th, 2010

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

- Destin Figuier

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.  ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation

Could this be your child?

March 9th, 2010

ARISE builds social and emotional fitness for the toughest kids on the planet.

Few, if any, evidence-based organizations have more documented experience than ARISE in educating violent youthful offenders in juvenile lockdown facilities. ARISE-trained staff facilitate interactive group sessions using the unique life-skills curriculum specifically designed for at-risk youth with learning and behavior problems. This is why positive outcomes can be guaranteed when the ARISE interactive curriculum and ARISE group facilitator training are implemented.

Quote of the Day #68

March 8th, 2010

You’ve got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

- Steven D. Woodhull

Quote of the Day #67

March 8th, 2010

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day #66

March 6th, 2010

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.  Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day.  Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.  And this is all life really means.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote of the Day #65

March 5th, 2010

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

- Turkish Proverb

Quote of the Day #64

March 4th, 2010

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

- Saint Vincent de Paul

Quote of the Day #63

March 3rd, 2010

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

- Arabic Proverb