There are many fine Life Management Skills curricula available today, but none that combine the written and spoken word like ARISE. Newly learned positive communication skills end up turning ARISE trained instructors into mentors. This relationship transforms at-risk youth into willing, receptive listeners comfortable sharing and absorbing big new ideas and information.

Every ARISE interactive group session opens new pathways for marginalized and disadvantaged youth to unlock society’s unwritten laws. Combine this with ARISE’s staff training that emphasizes positives vs. negatives fundamentally changing the culture and the way care givers interact with youth in their charge.

Since 1986 ARISE has worked because Edmund Benson, a successful entrepreneur, former rebel, and school dropout, teamed up with Susan Benson, an educator with a Masters Degree and a gift for making learning and living fun. As a team, the ARISE founders have succeeded in writing easily understood life skills lessons specifically for at risk children of all ages. Those youth angered, traumatized, and frustrated by their inability to understand or “get it” in classroom settings finally find success in ARISE. The Bensons also developed a winning formula for training staff to effectively teach ARISE curricula in enjoyable, interactive group sessions.

You also benefit because ARISE, this non-profit run by the Bensons, is their life and passion. This provides you with the luxury of being able to ask questions and receive guidance directly from these two icons whose prime interests are promoting positive behavior, protecting high risk youth from gang culture, and helping youth to refrain from socially unacceptable activities.

Your success implementing ARISE is guaranteed, because every word, book, and program has been personally created, written, taught, and managed by the ARISE founders. They are never farther from you than an e-mail: Susan Benson at sbenson@arisefoundation.org, or Edmund Benson at ebenson@arisefoundation.org.