ARISE Foundation Provides Critical Life Skills Certification Training to Staff Members of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) in Fort Walton Beach, Florida

North Palm Beach, FL, February 07, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The nonprofit ARISE Foundation will be conducting the ARISE two-day Life Skills Certification Training February 10th and 11th for staff of the ASAP juvenile substance abuse facility. The training will take place from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at 1015 Mar Walt Drive, Building 100. This intensive training session teaches participants working with some of the neediest kids in the state how to conduct ARISE interactive group sessions with the youth in their care.

The ARISE Life Skills Instructor Certification program is part of a comprehensive approach to getting at-risk youth back on track. The freshly-certified instructors emerge from training with confidence and a thorough knowledge of how to engage troubled youth in active group discussions and awaken their sense of creativity, cooperation and self-worth. Not only are staff members taught how to build relationships with kids that rebel against authority figures, but they are also provided with the innovative ARISE life skills curricula. The ARISE library consists of hundreds of books designed to educate youth who may have trouble reading and writing. Each book is designed to appeal to learners of every age and scholastic ability. The pages are easy to read and packed with attention-grabbing activities that teach valuable life skills such as anger management, substance abuse prevention, interview and job search skills, health and hygiene, STD awareness and much more.

Agnes Boyd, a volunteer at the Miami-Dade Community College North Campus, went through the Life Skills Certification Training. She praised the program for its multifaceted approach.

“The ARISE course was very well put together,” she said. “This class even taught me leadership skills and the importance of teamwork. It was great.”

For over 20 years, ARISE has operated as a developer and publisher of Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed originally to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults. ARISE is particularly appropriate for youth with special requirements, limited reading and/or writing ability. It has been successfully used for over 20 years in the Miami-Dade Florida School System, and in over 100 Washington DC schools, organizations and secure facilities.

Since ARISE was established over two decades ago, they have trained and certified over 5,000 instructors who have taught over 4,000,000 documented hours of ARISE life skills lessons in Florida alone. ARISE is also being used in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Kingdom of Bahrain. The ARISE curricula is presently being translated into Kazakh and Russian for use with orphans.

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