The ARISE founders are two amazing people. Edmund retired from business in 1982 at age 52 - a grade school dropout and rebel who made good. Susan, with a master's degree in exceptional student education and 27 years of classroom experience, teamed up to reach Edmund's new goal: Sharing personal secrets of success with disadvantaged kids. This vision lead them to: tame the "Miami Monster"( garbage incinerator), bring recycling to Miami-Dade County , partner with the School's Department of Nutrition to improve school food, create countywide programs focusing on inner-city children (Poison prevention and Lead awareness), speak with incarcerated youth and adults, asking what it would have taken for them to avoid trouble, creating over 260 life skills lessons to help at risk-youth make better life choices, and train staff to work with these venerable youth. Edmund and Susan continue on their journey. ARISE has trained over 5,000 group facilitators who have taught over 4, 500,000 hours of instruction to youth .The Bensons continue their mission to help youth. They created the Drop it at the Door training for staff to learn how to handle difficult youth, the five-day Master Training that equips an organization to have their own in-house ARISE trainer to sustain the program and the Family Tools to help families handle their children more positively and efficiently. ARISE is an evidenced -based, results-oriented program that changes the way at-risk youth look at life and the way staff look a the youth in a more positive light.

ARISE Work In Progress: Substance and Domestic Abuse provides interactive lesson plans to help teach your students about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, tobacco use, gun facts and gun control, guns and violence and much more!

ARISE Work In Progress: Violence and Conflict includes lessons to teach youth about conflict and decision making, dealing with violent acts, police confrontation, and dealing with many more violence related scenarios.

Social skills blueprint teens will use to build a solid future. Topics include anger management, violence, drug abuse, conflict resolution, domestic violence and abuse.

Teen Anger Management Life Skills CurriculumAnger Management provides basic training on managing anger and aggressive behavior and how to recognize and control these dangerous impulses.The corresponding 78-page Learner's Workbook (ISBN: 1-58614-015-9) includes 57 pages of learner's worksheets, a vocabulary list, 3 motivational posters, 4 short stories, and 3 inspirational biographies. Topics are the same as in the Instructor's Manual.Also available in Spanish. A social skills blueprint teens will use to build a solid future.

ARISE Sprouts: Physical and Emotional Development discusses real-life lessons on the hardships, responsibilities, and sacrifices of teen parenthood. Your students will learn about raising a healthy baby sleep, nutrition, doctor visits and encouraging a baby¿s emotional growth. These Physical and Emotional Development life skills are sure to prevent teen pregnancy by letting learners realize the full scope of what it takes to parent a child.