Return to D.A.R.E.: Armed with Scientific Credibility, the New D.A.R.E. Program Makes a Comeback

• NCJ Number: 225543
• Journal: Law Enforcement Technology Volume: 35 Issue: 10 Dated: October 2008 Pages: 22,24,28
• Author(s): Michelle Perin
• Date Published: October 2008
• Length: 6 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper describes the reengineered National Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.

Abstract

Since its inception in 1983, the curriculum of the National Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program has been revised. The revised program is currently being taught to all D.A.R.E. officers. The new D.A.R.E. is designed to keep students away from high risk behaviors. It focuses on teaching life skills and resistance to drug use. New components of D.A.R.E. include: new leadership, increased research activities to maintain program effectiveness, science-based curricular components, training model and instructional methodology, funding opportunities for local D.A.R.E. programs, adjustment to the scientifically recognized high-risk group of seventh and ninth-graders, enhanced protective factors, 10 lessons, menu of enhancement lessons, lessons are interactive versus lecture, and focus is on applying D.A.R.E. decisionmaking model to real life situations.