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Drug Abuse Resistance Education
D.A.R.E. was founded in
1983 in Los Angeles
and has proven so successful that it is now being implemented in 75 percent
of our nation's school districts and in more than 43 countries around the
world. D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that
teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer
pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.
The
D.A.R.E program began in Lee’s
Summit in 1991. Two officers were assigned to teach
the program in the city’s nine elementary schools. With the expansive growth
in the city since that time, the D.A.R.E. Unit has also seen growth. It now
includes four full time officers and one part time officer teaching the
D.A.R.E. curriculum in twenty elementary and four middle schools.
Officers
teach students in second, fourth and sixth grade in elementary and seventh
grade at the middle school level. Each year approximately 4000 elementary
students and 1300 middle school students receive the training.
In
addition to the normal D.A.R.E. lessons, D.A.R.E. officers make countless
appearances at community events and teach safety lessons throughout the
community to children of all ages.
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