What is RISEKids?
RISEKids is a Prevention Program to build strength from within. RISEKids helps school move from reactive responses to proactive prevention by giving students, teachers, and families shared language and practical tools they can use every day.
Aligned with MTSS, PBIS, resiliency education, and school climate goals, the program focuses on practical, real-life skills students can use in the classroom, with peers, and beyond school.
Our goal is simple: help children feel stronger from within so they can better learn, connect, and thrive.
Schools
Strengthen school climate belonging and readiness to learn.
Teachers
Get practical strategies and shared language for classroom dynamics.
Parents
Learn tools to support resilience, boundaries, communication, and digital stress at home.
Why Prevention Matters
Students today are navigating stress, peer conflict, digital pressure, bullying, and a growing need for belonging. When students feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsafe, it can affect concentration, behavior, relationships, classroom engagement, and school climate.
Stress & Emotional Overload
Students need tools to manage feelings, setbacks, and daily pressure.
Bullying & Exclusion
Schools need proactive ways to build inclusion and positive peer culture.
Digital & Social Media Pressure
Children need guidance for confidence, boundaries, and healthy online behavior.
Conflict & Communication Challenges
Students need practice with respectful communication, repair, and problem-solving.
Core Focus Areas
RISE: Resilience / Identity / Self-Worth/Empowerment
Learning Through Experience
RISEKids is not lecture-based. Students learn through interactive, age-appropriate experiences that make skills practical and memorable.
Sessions may include storytelling, real-life scenarios, role play, group reflection, movement, creative exercises, and peer discussion.
Our Services
What We Offer
Student Workshops
Interactive sessions focused on resilience, communication, conflict management, self-worth, emotions and peer relationships.
Structured Programms that follow a class or grade over a longer time to really root the changes to create a deeper impact across classrooms, grade levels, or the full school.
Teacher, Team Training & Support
Practical strategies for classroom climate, group dynamics, and student behavior support.
Parent & Caregiver Workshops
Guidance for families on communication, boundaries, resilience, bullying dynamics, and digital stressors.
Youth & Community Programs
Adapted prevention workshops for youth organizations, sports clubs, camps, and community
partners.
Follow-Up & Evaluation
Feedback, reflection, progress check-ins, and next-step recommendations
Who We Serve
Primary Focus: Schools
RISEKids partners with public and private schools to strengthen school climate, peer culture, belonging, communication, and readiness to learn.
Also Supporting:
Parent groups, youth organizations, sports programs, camps, and community partners seeking practical prevention and resilience-building programs.
How RISEKids Works
Discovery Call
We learn about your school’s needs, grade levels, climate goals, and current support
structures.
Tailored Program Plan
We design a workshop or multi-session rollout aligned with your classroom and school.
community.
Student Workshops
Interactive, age-appropriate sessions using storytelling, role play, movement, reflection,
and group exercises.
Teacher and Parent Support
Adults receive practical language and tools to reinforce the skills beyond the workshop.
Follow-Up & Evaluation
We review feedback, identify next steps, and support sustainable implementation.
Why Schools
Choose RISEKids
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Strengthens school climate and belonging
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Supports Tier 1 prevention and MTSS/PBIS-aligned efforts
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Builds readiness-to-learn skills
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Reduces day-to-day peer conflict and exclusion
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Gives teachers practical shared language
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Engages families through parent education
Evidence-Informed & School-Aligned
RISEKids is an educational prevention program informed by widely used school prevention
frameworks. References to third-party frameworks describe general alignment and do not imply
endorsement.
MTSS Tier 1
Resilience & Wellbeing
PBIS Supportive
Experiential Learning
SEL Skills
Strengths-Based
Built on 10+ Years of Prevention Experience
RISEKids is based on prevention work developed through Kinderschutz.li in Europe and adapted
for U.S. school communities. The model brings together child protection, resilience-building,
bullying prevention, parent education, teacher support, and experiential learning.
Founded by Dr. Alexandra Schiedt
Founder of Kinderschutz.li, Dr. Alexandra Schiedt has built cross-sector prevention initiatives
with schools, families, experts, and community partners in Europe. RISEKids now brings this
experience to Florida..
Get Started
Bring RISEKids to Your School
Ready to learn more about bringing RISEKids to your school or organization?
Contact us for a free consultation.