D.A.R.E. Graduation Day
“The New D.A.R.E. program is setting the gold standard
for the future,” says Charlie Parsons, President and Chief Executive Officer of
D.A.R.E. America, “Prevention inside the 21st century
school house will need to be diverse, accountable, and mean more things
to more people, particularly with the safety issues that have emerged
since Columbine and terrorist alerts. That’s one reason why
every New D.A.R.E. officer is also being trained as a certified School
Resource Officer (SRO).”
The New D.A.R.E. curriculum is in its final year of a five-year national research effort funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Under the direction of principal investigator, Dr. Zili Sloboda, the University of Akron’s Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Study is a rigorous scientific evaluation of the New D.A.R.E. curriculum designed to blend the latest in prevention science with the nation’s largest prevention delivery network—the D.A.R.E. program.
D.A.R.E. teaches kids how to recognize and resist the direct and subtle pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs. And since between 70% and 90% of all crime is drug related, it is absolutely vital that we reach the children of America before it is too late.
The D.A.R.E. program is usually introduced to children in the 5th or 6th grade. A specially trained officer comes into your school and teaches the children. D.A.R.E. has launched a new elementary and a new middle school curriculum this year.
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