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Laramie Police Departments D.A.R.E. Program!
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Welcome to the Laramie Police Department's Web Page for the D.A.R.E. Program. This site was developed to give both parents and kids access to information about our D.A.R.E. program. Enjoy your stay and we hope that this will give you further insight into what D.A.R.E. is doing in our community.
Officer Erica Campbell
was recently selected as the new DARE Officer for the
Laramie Police Department and the Albany County School
District. Officer Campbell has been with the
Laramie Police Department since 2003. She has been
involved in a number of things with our department
including being a Custody & Control instructor for both
our department and the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy.
She joined the department after attending school at The University of
Wyoming where she played for the UW Soccer Team. You
will be seeing her your classrooms and in the DARE Car
this coming year.
The following pages will lead you to articles that will furnish information about the effectiveness of the D.A.R.E. program. These articles have been placed here in an attempt to allow our visitors more information about recent studies that show D.A.R.E. has been a worthwhile program in communities all over this country.
I DARE You!
A
Paper by Laramie High School Student, Laura Weatherford
Laura Weatherford
20 Nov. 2002
I Dare You!
I. Thesis
The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program should
remain in public schools because it is an effective program. According to the
national DARE website, students who have participated in DARE are five times
less likely to start smoking (Dare 1). Therefore, for this and many other
reasons, DARE should stay in school and continue to have a large, positive
effect on America.
II. Definition/explanation of term(s)/topic(s) in these statement
DARE is an anti-drug program started in 1983 in order to combat the
national trend of rising drug use. It gets the students involved, teaches them
many useful things, such as how to say no in many different ways, what to do
when boredom comes, conflict resolution, and techniques to use when under
pressure. It is taught by a police officer on a daily basis.
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III. History/background of topic
Los Angeles is the hometown of the DARE program as of 1983. This
program reaches 26 million students nationwide. DARE is starting a new program
and will begin teaching tenth grade. DARE has had ten revisions overall, which
shows it is changing as the world and kids are changing. Police officers have
taught it from the beginning so that the students know police do have hearts and
are there to help them and their community.
IV. Cause(s) and effect(s)
The police officer in charge of that class has the students do many
activities, including role plays, which have these vital skills become second
nature. DARE is taught for the first time to fifth or sixth graders. The
student will have DARE again in the eighth grade, and now with their new
program, it will be taught to tenth graders. It is taught over a seventeen week
course. Each week the police officer focuses on one main thing such as effects
of drugs on the mind, consequences, beliefs on drugs, resistance techniques,
building self esteem and learning assertiveness. Then the officer teaches how
to manage stress, how to get rid of violence, how to overcome and even ignore
the media’s messages, how to make good decisions, that they should say yes to
positive things, and the importance of role models. Finally, he reviews and
then each student writes an essay and reads it to the class.
Ever since the DARE program has been in schools, the students know how to and usually do resist drugs. Students also enjoy the program, which makes it effective for everyone. The national website found that males who have gone through DARE are a lot less likely to drink. If DARE is taken from schools in the nation, the number of adolescents drinking under age will increase by a lot! Some critics have been saying DARE is ineffective because there are still people drinking out there, but are they counting the people who aren’t drinking? The DARE program is not something you can measure directly and decide whether or not it is effective. If only one adolescent/kid is reached, then the program was very much worth it.
Officer Avery once said that a teenage boy came back to him one day and told him he was so grateful for DARE. It saved his life as well as his future. In his home, there was a lot of drug abuse and he thought he would grow up to be just like that. Through DARE, he learned he makes his own decisions and is confident within himself to make good choices. The DARE program is so important to the whole nation, that each year one day is set aside just for DARE nationwide. This has been in effect since the year 1988. DARE America’s President Glenn Levant said, “’Through DARE…students are armed with the tools needed to reject destructive behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and taking drugs. Dozens of studies, including this most recent one of the current DARE curriculum, confirm the effectiveness of our efforts’” (Dare 3). After going through the DARE program, students are more likely to be involved in “Just say no clubs and other efforts to prevent drug abuse among their peers.
A study was given in Utah to 70 random students who went through DARE in the fifth, seventh, and tenth grades. 93% of them gave very positive comments. On a scale from zero to ten on the importance of DARE, all of them rated it as a nine or a ten and said it was incredibly important. DARE was a very effective program, however, it was not based on science so the police are changing it. DARE will pretty much be the same, only now it is based on scientific knowledge.
V. Solution
DARE should be kept in all schools across the nation so that America
can keep the good children that represent the future. DARE teaches them what to
do when bored, when under pressure, and many ways to say no. It brings out the
student’s real feelings and beliefs on drugs. DARE tells the students the truth
and has them do role plays to know how to deal with real life situations. Kids
need DARE because it teaches them vital things. DARE may not be the whole
answer, but it is a huge piece of the puzzle. America’s problem is not the DARE
program, but rather the lack of most parents and discipline in their own
children’s lives. Officer Avery said he knows DARE is not the magic pill, but
that does not mean get rid of it all together. Getting rid of the program would
end in higher crime and drug use rates, and even more crime altogether. One
possibility to make this program even more effective is to have it taught in
more grades and have even more real life situational interactions for students
to learn from.
VI. Conclusion
Therefore, the DARE program should definitely remain in public
schools for America to be able to progress and achieve the greatness in store
for this country. It is a proven fact that students who have gone through the
DARE program are five times less likely to start smoking. They are less likely
to drink and less likely to take illegal drugs. This is definitely worth the
time of this wonderful program. It is reason enough!
Works Cited
Avery, Rich. Telephone Interview. 17 Nov. 2002.
“DARE to Admit What Best Serves Our Youth. The Los Angeles Times 3 May 2002.
ProQuest. LHS Library, Laramie, WY. 11 Nov. 2002. http://proquest.umi.com/
Drug Abuse Resistance Education. 2002. D.A.R.E. America. 17 Nov. 2002 http://www.dare.com
Evans, Glen and Norman L. Farberow, Ph.D. “Substance abuse. The Encyclopedia of Suicide. 1988.
Gorman, Siobhan. “Bush and School Safety. National Journal 17 March 2001. ProQuest. LHS Library, Laramie, WY. 11 Nov. 2002. http://proquest.umi.com/
Hendin, Herert. The Age of Sensation. New York: Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.
Laramie Police Department’s D.A.R.E. Program. 2002. Laramie Police Department. 17 Nov. 2002 http://www.dare-laramie.com/
McMillan, Daniel. “Motivating the War on Drugs. Winning the Battle Against Drugs. 1991.
Seltz, Johanna. “Blowing Smoke: There is an Easy Answer to Why Children are Ignoring Schools Anti-Drug efforts. Boston Globe 15 Oct. 2000. ProQuest. LHS Library, Laramie, WY. 11 Nov. 2002. http://proquest.umi.com/