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Governor Proclaims D.A.R.E. Day in Minnesota

TIM PAWLENTY, Governor of Minnesota

St. Paul, MN

–Governor Tim Pawlenty has proclaimed Thursday – April 12, 2007 D.A.R.E. Day in the State of Minnesota.  In a state proclamation, Governor Pawlenty proclaims the following:

Whereas:

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) is a prevention and education program that teaches young people ways of resisting peer pressure to experiment with drugs and alcohol; and

Whereas:

D.A.R.E. targets young people when they are most vulnerable to peer pressure, and teaches the skills to make positive decisions, as well as resist the pressure to engage in negative and violent behaviors; and

Whereas:  

Over 25 million students have been reached worldwide and approximately 100,000 Minnesota students are touched annually; and

Whereas: 

The D.A.R.E. curriculum helps students understand self-image, recognize and manage stress without taking drugs, evaluate risk-taking behavior, resist gang pressure, apply decision-making techniques, evaluate the consequences of the choices available to them, discover ways to handle conflict, and learn friendship skills; and

Whereas:

The D.A.R.E. program has achieved outstanding success, teaching positive and effective approaches to two of the most difficult problems facing our young people today – drug abuse and violence.

NOW, THEREFORE, I TIM PAWLENTY, Governor of Minnesota, do hereby proclaim Thursday, April 12, 2007, to be:

                                         D.A.R.E. Day

in the state of Minnesota.

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