ARISE Foundation to Conduct Five-Day Master Life Skills Training Experience in Tampa, FL Jan. 12-16

Jan. 9, 2009 - PRLog -- The nonprofit ARISE Foundation is gearing up for a weeklong life skills training workshop January 12-16 at the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Regional Headquarters at 4524 Oak Fair Boulevard, Suite 100. The training will take place from 9:00 to 4:00 each day.  Juvenile Justice staff and those working with at-risk populations in a variety of settings will take part in the Master Life Skills training in order to become ARISE Certified Master Life Skills Trainers.  

As ARISE Certified Master Life Skills Trainers, participants of this five-day training workshop will be able to take what they have learned and train others at their organization on how to conduct  innovative guided group discussions and activities with troubled youth and young adults in their charge. For over two decades, ARISE life skills lessons have been used across the country with astounding results.

Allison Ayala of the Pinellas Marine Institute in St. Petersburg, FL has seen amazing results since she began using the ARISE curricula.

“I have really seen some positive changes in the learning experiences of the students from working together on discussions and materials,” Ayala said. “The ARISE materials are clear and useful. They always provide me with inspiration. The youth really work better when they are coming together as a community.”

ARISE Life Skills lessons were specifically created for learners with substantial reading and learning deficiencies in addition to serious behavioral issues. The Master Life Skills training will train others to steer youth in the right direction by providing new trainers with ARISE breakthrough curricula that help disadvantaged youth grasp life’s unwritten rules. Among the 260 life lessons ARISE has created are: anger and conflict management, self esteem, parenting and job search skills.

Since 1986, ARISE has developed and published unique Life Management Skills curricula and staff training programs. The curricula are specially designed to educate at-risk, emotionally disturbed and incarcerated youth. ARISE is also utilized as a powerful prevention tool for teenagers and young adults.  It has been successfully used for decades by alternative schools, Boys and Girls clubs and over 100 Washington, D.C. schools, organizations and secure facilities.

Since ARISE was established over two decades ago, it has 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 across the USA ,in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, The Kingdom of Bahrain, and Central Asia. The ARISE curricula is presently being translated into Kazakh and Russian for use with orphans. For more information, visit ariselife-skills.org.