D.A.R.E. IS SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION EDUCATION AND MUCH MORE!

This year millions of school children around the world will benefit from D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the highly acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence.

D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 and has proven so successful that it has been implemented in thousands of schools throughout the United States and many other countries.

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 teaches students in each one of our County Schools the dangers of drugs and about good decision making.  These D.A.R.E instructors are certified to teach D.A.R.E. in various grade levels.  Currently, Tyler Reese and Joah Walden teache D.A.R.E. at Thrasher, Wheeler, Hills Chapel, Marietta and Jumpertown.

We have utilized the the D.A.R.E. Program since 2000 as a vaulable resource and a very important preventative tool.

The care and concern shown by these D.A.R.E. Instructors have had a significant impact on the lives of many of the students they have taught.

Our goals have been; to create relationship of trust between law enforcment and the students, educate them concerning the bad effects of drugs and train the children to make good decisions throughout their lives.

DARE Graduation 2007 Hills C			Fight for DARE 2009
Wheeler DARE Graduation 2007