ARISE Achieves a Milestone, Reaching Thousands of At-Risk Youth Through Its Interactive Life Skills Lessons
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.
North Palm Beach, FL, August 15, 2009 --(PR.com)-- In its quest to bring crucial life skills to some of the most troubled kids and teens in the country, ARISE has officially certified thousands of Life Skills Facilitators who have now taught millions of documented hours of its incomparable life skills lessons. These highly-trained and motivated individuals take what they have learned and conduct lively group discussions and activities with juvenile offenders. Within the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice alone, ARISE Certified Life Skills Instructors teach between 10,000 and 12,000 hours of ARISE life skills lessons each month.
Every hour counts. ARISE groups inspire positive behavioral changes in locked up youth. During an ARISE life skills lesson, the youth are listened to and valued while they are taught vital skills such as anger management, self esteem, conflict resolution, gang avoidance, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and so much more. The goal of the life skills lessons is to keep youth from becoming prison statistics and to steer them down the path toward becoming law-abiding, productive, successful citizens.
For over 20 years, ARISE has operated as a developer and publisher of unique Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities and on probation, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults. ARISE programs consist of interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and grab the attention of even the most turned-off participants.
In its home state of Florida, ARISE was utilized for decades in the Miami-Dade School system. ARISE has forged a strong partnership with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). ARISE programs have been changing the lives of juvenile offenders in the Florida juvenile justice system since 1996. Its dynamic programs are currently being taught in 74 DJJ facilities across the state, as well as the Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs, halfway houses and alternative schools.
ARISE programs are also used in over 100 organizations in the District of Columbia, including public and charter schools, the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, the Metropolitan Police, the District of Columbia jail and the D.C. Superior Court Probation Department.
A 2007 study by Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland showed that the cost of one offender with at least six police contacts from childhood to age 32 is $3,172,998. In other words, rescuing one youth from a life of crime saves taxpayers more than $3 million dollars.
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. ARISE curricula are presently being translated into Kazakh, Russian. Requests for translations have also come in from as far away as Pakistan, South Africa, Cambodia, Singapore and China.
For more information, or to schedule a training, please call Yasmin toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit http://www.ariselife-skills.org.
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Every hour counts. ARISE groups inspire positive behavioral changes in locked up youth. During an ARISE life skills lesson, the youth are listened to and valued while they are taught vital skills such as anger management, self esteem, conflict resolution, gang avoidance, drug and alcohol abuse prevention and so much more. The goal of the life skills lessons is to keep youth from becoming prison statistics and to steer them down the path toward becoming law-abiding, productive, successful citizens.
For over 20 years, ARISE has operated as a developer and publisher of unique Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. Designed to reach at-risk, incarcerated youth in detention centers and secure facilities and on probation, ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults. ARISE programs consist of interactive group discussions and activities designed to break the ice quickly and grab the attention of even the most turned-off participants.
In its home state of Florida, ARISE was utilized for decades in the Miami-Dade School system. ARISE has forged a strong partnership with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). ARISE programs have been changing the lives of juvenile offenders in the Florida juvenile justice system since 1996. Its dynamic programs are currently being taught in 74 DJJ facilities across the state, as well as the Salvation Army, Boys and Girls Clubs, halfway houses and alternative schools.
ARISE programs are also used in over 100 organizations in the District of Columbia, including public and charter schools, the D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, the Metropolitan Police, the District of Columbia jail and the D.C. Superior Court Probation Department.
A 2007 study by Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland showed that the cost of one offender with at least six police contacts from childhood to age 32 is $3,172,998. In other words, rescuing one youth from a life of crime saves taxpayers more than $3 million dollars.
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. ARISE curricula are presently being translated into Kazakh, Russian. Requests for translations have also come in from as far away as Pakistan, South Africa, Cambodia, Singapore and China.
For more information, or to schedule a training, please call Yasmin toll free: 1 (888) 680-6100 or visit http://www.ariselife-skills.org.
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Edmund Benson
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Edmund Benson
(561) 630-2021
http://www.ariselife-skills.org
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