According to Levinthal (2012), the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program is a worldwide ideal program created in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District. D.A.R.E. provides students from kindergarten through high school students with the skills necessary to recognize and resist pressures to try drugs and to avoid gangs and gang’s violence. The program emphasize one’s self-esteem, decision making, personal communications skills, and the concerns of drug abuse, conflict resolution and positive changes to substance abuse. The most important feature of D.A.R.E. is the use of specially trained police officers to deliver the course within the schools. Police Officers are accepted as experts
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(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is one of the most widely used substance abuse prevention programs targeted at school-aged youths.
In recent years, D.A.R.E. has been the country’s largest single school-based prevention program in terms of federal costs, with an average of three quarters of a billion dollars spent on its provision annually. Although its effectiveness in preventing substance use has been called into question, its application in our nation schools remains widespread. (West & O’neal, 2004)
Levinthal (2010) writes the DARE program for advocating that children questioned about having drug offenders in their families. For example, a DARE lesson called the three R’s: recognize the drugs, resist drugs, and report when someone are using drugs at home to a friend, teacher, or the police. Because of this, critics of D.A.R.E. have viewed this and related elements of the program as a device for turning children into spies.
Toledo supports findings indicated that D.A.R.E. is …show more content…
Keep a Clear Mind is different from DARE because it requires parental involvement. Not only will students receive this lifesaving information at school, the lessons will be reinforced at home, Mayor Jack Ford said. The four-lesson program for fifth graders will start in January at fifteen Toledo Public Schools, four Washington Local Schools, and about seven Catholic schools. School officials have not chosen the buildings for the pilot program, which lasts four weeks. Police Chief Mike Navarre said his school resource officers will facilitate the program, which was developed fourteen years ago at the University of Arkansas. The children will be given booklets with take-home activities that involve the students and their parents. The lessons include information about alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and tools to avoid drugs and alcohol. At the end of each booklet is a contract children and adults sign that state they will say no to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and drugs. Each time, adults certify that the children have finished the booklet. The students will have incentives to complete the program, such as treat coupons. The program is expected to cost less than $10,000 and be paid for from the drug forfeiture fund. Dr. Eugene Sanders, superintendent of Toledo Public Schools, said
(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is one of the most widely used substance abuse prevention programs targeted at school-aged youths.
In recent years, D.A.R.E. has been the country’s largest single school-based prevention program in terms of federal costs, with an average of three quarters of a billion dollars spent on its provision annually. Although its effectiveness in preventing substance use has been called into question, its application in our nation schools remains widespread. (West & O’neal, 2004)
Levinthal (2010) writes the DARE program for advocating that children questioned about having drug offenders in their families. For example, a DARE lesson called the three R’s: recognize the drugs, resist drugs, and report when someone are using drugs at home to a friend, teacher, or the police. Because of this, critics of D.A.R.E. have viewed this and related elements of the program as a device for turning children into spies.
Toledo supports findings indicated that D.A.R.E. is …show more content…
Keep a Clear Mind is different from DARE because it requires parental involvement. Not only will students receive this lifesaving information at school, the lessons will be reinforced at home, Mayor Jack Ford said. The four-lesson program for fifth graders will start in January at fifteen Toledo Public Schools, four Washington Local Schools, and about seven Catholic schools. School officials have not chosen the buildings for the pilot program, which lasts four weeks. Police Chief Mike Navarre said his school resource officers will facilitate the program, which was developed fourteen years ago at the University of Arkansas. The children will be given booklets with take-home activities that involve the students and their parents. The lessons include information about alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and tools to avoid drugs and alcohol. At the end of each booklet is a contract children and adults sign that state they will say no to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and drugs. Each time, adults certify that the children have finished the booklet. The students will have incentives to complete the program, such as treat coupons. The program is expected to cost less than $10,000 and be paid for from the drug forfeiture fund. Dr. Eugene Sanders, superintendent of Toledo Public Schools, said