For nearly a quarter century, ARISE has motivated troubled youth to open up about their lives and express themselves while learning the crucial life skills in the dynamic ARISE curriculum. - March 31, 2010
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. - March 11, 2010
Adding three additional days to the Drop It at the Door training allows participants to fully explore and grasp each life-changing concept, from anger and stress management to handling the office gossip machine. - January 10, 2010
ARISE Choices for Change provides the District’s at-risk youth with practical tools they need to avoid repeating their mistakes and becoming another prison statistic. - December 09, 2009
Eleven months ago, ARISE began training the staff of Thompson Academy in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The staff’s hard work and dedication have resulted in the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice awarding Thompson with an 86% “commendable” rating, qualifying them for “deemed status,” a title that only four other facilities in Florida earned this year. - November 27, 2009
ARISE Master Trainers contribute knowledge and leadership to detention centers in Florida. - November 20, 2009
ARISE Master Life Skills Certification gives juvenile justice staff the understanding and assurance they need to assume leadership roles and teach others how to facilitate ARISE life skills groups. - October 03, 2009
Benson understands firsthand the hardships faced by high school dropouts and at-risk youth, because he took that difficult path himself. He hopes to reach out to the other nonprofits by offering life skills curricula for translation free of charge. - September 04, 2009
For its upcoming book, filled with stories about the dangers of gang life, ARISE Foundation interviewed several incarcerated young gang members about their experiences. - August 27, 2009
The two-day life skills training workshop will show participants how to lead ARISE group discussions and activities and motivate juvenile offenders to get their high school diploma. - August 22, 2009
Almost 6,000 certified ARISE Life Skills Facilitators have gone on to teach over 4 million hours of group activities to incarcerated and troubled youth. - August 15, 2009
ARISE will journey cross-country to bring anger and stress management to the staff of Academy of Trades and Technologies. - August 07, 2009
Fifty of the best stories will be featured in a remarkable upcoming book about gang prevention. - June 24, 2009
ARISE Master Life Skills Certification gives participants the knowledge and confidence they need to become leaders and teach others how to conduct two-day life skills facilitator training. - June 03, 2009
Dozens of representatives from juvenile justice and nonprofit organizations will engage in a presentation outlining the remarkable ARISE Life Skills and CHOICES training programs. - May 23, 2009
Certified ARISE Life Skills Master Trainer Mario Perez is gearing up to conduct an intensive two-day training session. The training will assist the staff of ORJDC and others in teaching crucial life skills to the youth in their care. - May 10, 2009
ARISE Foundation will conduct the latest in a series of intensive staff training sessions that began in Washington in 2004. The training will assist the dedicated DYRS staff and others in teaching valuable life skills to the youth in their care. - April 22, 2009
ARISE Life-Skills Facilitators learn how to conduct interactive group discussions and exciting activities with at-risk juvenile offenders, creating a mentoring relationship between juvenile justice staff and the young people in their care. - April 17, 2009
ARISE Life Skills Facilitators learn how to conduct lively group discussions and activities with incarcerated, at-risk youth, creating a mentoring relationship between juvenile justice staff and the young people in their care. - April 04, 2009
The ARISE CHOICES: Drop It at the Door workshop teaches those that work in high-stress environments how to manage their emotions and lead happier, more fulfilling lives, both at work and at home. - March 22, 2009
ARISE Life Skills Instructors learn how to conduct interactive group discussions and exciting activities with at-risk juvenile offenders, creating a mentoring relationship between juvenile justice staff and the young people in their care.
ARISE Foundation will conduct its powerful ARISE two-day Life... - March 13, 2009
Life Skills Instructors learn how to conduct lively group discussions and activities with at-risk youth, creating a mentoring relationship between juvenile justice staff and the young people in their care. - March 08, 2009
Innovative program helps individuals in the public eye teach at-risk inner-city youth vital life skills, such as anger management and self-esteem, while fulfilling their legal obligations. - March 07, 2009
Posters offer straightforward messages on essential subjects such as drug abuse, dropout and domestic violence prevention. - February 20, 2009
Life Skills Instructors learn how to conduct lively group discussions and activities with at-risk youth, creating a mentoring relationship between juvenile justice staff and the youth in their care. - February 07, 2009
ARISE Foundation will conduct two anger and stress management workshops February 2nd-3rd and 5th-6th for staff at the Thompson Academy, a residential program for at-risk and troubled youth. The training will take place at 8331 Pembroke Road in Pembroke Pines, FL from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. - January 31, 2009
ARISE Foundation will conduct its CHOICES workshop Jan. 27-30 in Tampa at 5118 N. 56th St., Suite 206. BAYS operates 7 youth programs under the umbrella of the Florida Dept. of Juvenile Justice. The training will take place daily from 9AM to 4PM. - January 25, 2009
ARISE Foundation will work with staff of the Thompson Academy to help them learn to manage anger and other harmful emotions while working in a stressful environment. - January 08, 2009
Continuing its strong four-year partnership with the D.C. police department, ARISE will conduct its two-day Life Skills Instructor Certification Training for School Resource Officers on December 22nd and 23rd in Washington D.C. - December 21, 2008
ARISE Foundation will conduct an anger and stress management seminar on December 15th—16th and 18th—19th, 2008 for staff at the Thompson Academy, a residential program for troubled youth. The training will take place at 8331 Pembroke Road in Pembroke Pines, FL from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. - December 14, 2008
The ARISE Foundation, with a grant from the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, will provide valuable life skills training to Florida's juvenile justice employees, giving them a chance to become mentors to the at-risk youth under their care. - December 05, 2008
The nonprofit ARISE Foundation is gearing up for a weeklong life skills training workshop in the nation’s capitol November 10-14. Juvenile Justice staff and those working with at-risk populations in a variety of settings will take part in the Master Life Skills training in order to become ARISE... - November 09, 2008
ARISE will use the grant from the Rotary Club to purchase a new video camera in order to better train their staff of Life Skills Instructors, and as a way to provide streaming video and webinars to its website. - September 14, 2008
Once labeled a troublemaker and at-risk kid himself, Edmund Benson started the ARISE Foundation in 1986 to teach life skills to youth in the juvenile justice system. Benson is now celebrating his 79th birthday by giving over 100 important books to the international nonprofit community by allowing them to be translated and used under a creative commons license free of charge. - August 24, 2008
