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: 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!

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.

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

ARISE Work In Progress: Anger Management teaches teens how to control and manage their anger. Topics explored include anger triggers, different types of anger, communication and listening, mediation, bullying, peer pressure and avoiding fights.

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.

ARISE Fatherhood explains that parenting skills are not inherited or instinctive. They must be observed and learned. This life skills manual is "Dad's Basic Training" for teenage boys and young men. It shows them that making a baby just to prove you can do it isn't cool or smart. Youth will see that a good father is one who understands supports, loves and protects his children and family.