We help people discover their potential and expand and develop the skills and attitudes necessary to achieve higher degrees of success. America’s Rising Stars is an innovative and unique inside-out leadership development process. This research based approach focuses on four critical elements that promote personal leadership, healthy behaviors, and the skills employers identify as essential— attitude development, human relations, skill development, and goal setting. These elements are developed, applied, and reinforced throughout the process and through a follow-up process to strengthen and perpetuate successful behaviors. The process is modeled after an adult leadership development process which has been used successfully with hundreds of thousands of individuals for twenty five years. Rising Stars has successfully been implemented in 22 states and counting. ARS is how you can provide an opportunity to the community, our schools, your children, and today’s youth for them to successfully create their own future as tomorrow’s leaders. AMERICA'S RISING STARS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS A self-development process of life-long learning to prepare people for a future of excellence and success. 1) 40% grade point increase
AMERICA'S RISING STARS
Enabling youth to make positive life choices.
Rising Stars is a self-development process of life-long learning to prepare young people for a future of excellence and success.
Developing positive attitudes Developing Human Relations Developing interpersonal skills Developing goal-achievement skills Successful application of self-leadership skills Seeks out options from diverse alternatives Reduction in risk behavior Increase in school attendance Increase in performance Increase in grade point average Increase in high school attainment and post secondary experiences Application of new interpersonal skills Goal-oriented, informed decisions Effective communication in diverse situations Demonstrates leadership in various situations: Team-player and/or leader Provides a vision and purpose to a cause Uses influence to obtain planned outcomes Outcomes of the pilot programs research:
2) 56% reduction in school disciplinary/truancy incidents
3) 70% increase in college attendance
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) In Conjunction with the Sar Levitan Center for Public Policy Study, the federal government has recognized that short-term training and employment programs have not resulted in long-term gains. Therefore, in 2000, the WIA revised its traditional funding of summer programs and instituted a long-term approach with at least a 30% emphasis on out of school youth. These new program elements within Section 129 of WIA also include: "(A) tutoring, study skills training, and instruction, leading to completion of secondary school; WIA also supports |
