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.
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.
A Formula for
Success
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.
America's
Rising Stars is an innovative and unique inside-out development
process. That focuses on three critical elements that
promote personal leadership, healthy behaviors, and the skills
employers identify as essential. These elements
are:
 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:
1) 40% grade point increase
2) 56% reduction in
school disciplinary/truancy incidents
3) 70% increase in
college attendance
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Workforce
Investment Act (WIA) |
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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;
(F) leadership
development opportunities, which may include community
service and peer-centered activities encouraging
responsibility and other positive social behaviors
during non-school hours as appropriate;
(H) adult
mentoring...of not less than 12 months;
(I)
follow-up services for not less than 12 months after the
completion."
WIA also
supports U.S.
Department of Education in providing leadership and
citizenship development.
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