
Instructor, using techniques of facilitation – gone are the days of the didactic lecture – guides students as they work in small cooperative learning groups using the D.A.R.E. decision making model in which students are provided skills to use in developing and assessing choices they make in life. The program employs the use of the D.A.R.E. The program offers a preventive strategy to enhance protective factors ‐ especially bonding to family, school and community ‐ which research has shown to foster development of resiliency in students who may be at risk for substance abuse or other problem behaviors. K-12 curricula focus upon the abuse of gateway drugs (tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and inhalants). Funding opportunities for local D.A.R.E.Reinvigorated advisory groups, such as the prestigious and active Law Enforcement Executive Board.Comprehensive programming with greater flexibility at the local level.New training model and instructional methodology.New science‐based curricular components.Increased research activities to maintain program efficacy.A five year strategic plan developed with the UCLA Anderson School of Business.America has engaged in a total organizational renewal which includes: Today, through the leadership of D.A.R.E.’s dedicated Board of Directors, and the tireless commitment and hard work of tens of thousands of officers and educators throughout America and around the globe, D.A.R.E strives each day to achieve its vital mission…to fulfill a vision. As each decade passed and success increased, the challenges facing children and families also grew. With each passing year, D.A.R.E.’s success was seen in classrooms and homes leading to rapid growth and expansion.

About The Programįacing unparalleled drug abuse among our youth in the 1970’s and early 1980’s, visionary Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1983 launched an unprecedented and innovative substance abuse prevention education program – Drug Abuse Resistance Education. The Sheriff’s Office is determined to educate the students of Brunswick County to make good, wise, and healthy decisions that not just affect them now, but into the distant future. The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office is proud to participate in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program, which teaches children about the dangers of drug and alcohol use and the violence which often accompanies it.
