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Drug Abuse Resistance Education
(D.A.R.E.)

Main Phone: (775) 328-3001

Deputy Janet Bailey

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program was first developed in 1983. D.A.R.E. is a drug and violence prevention education program which represents a collaborative effort between school and law enforcement personnel. The D.A.R.E. curriculum is designed to equip elementary, middle, and high school students with the appropriate skills to resist substance abuse, violence, and gangs. It offers a variety of activity-oriented techniques designed to encourage student-generated responses for problem solving in various situations. The program is coordinated nationally by D.A.R.E. America with input received from state and local agencies and communities. It is taught by uniformed law enforcement officers in 52 countries, reaching 36 million school children around the world each year.

The Washoe County Sheriff's Office is a strong supporter of this program and dedicated to presenting its curriculum to the Washoe County community schools. The D.A.R.E. program has one full-time deputy assigned specifically to the program. The D.A.R.E. program is presented to 15 area elementary schools. Since adopting the program in 1989, the Sheriff's Office D.A.R.E. program has graduated over 11,000 students. Thousands more have been reached through short classroom visits by D.A.R.E. deputies who generally discuss the program material and other personal safety information.

The curriculum focuses on knowledge and skill development in seven areas:

• ·Cognitive information
• Recognizing pressures
• Refusal skills
• Consequential thinking and risk taking
• Interpersonal communication
• Decision making
• Positive alternatives D.A.R.E. also focuses on developing and extending a student’s ability to: · Understand the nature of the risks associated with alcohol, drug, tobacco and inhalant use.
• Examine and understand their own beliefs related to risky behavior and its consequences.
• Communicate positively and effectively in social situations.
• Develop and use assertiveness refusal skills.
• Recognize, defuse and avoid potentially violent situations.
• Make significant long-term life decisions.

D.A.R.E. MISSION

To provide children with the information and skills they need to avoid tobacco and alcohol, to live drug-free and violence-free lives.

D.A.R.E. GOALS

1. Seek to provide students with a knowledge base on the effects of drug abuse that go beyond the physical ramifications and extend to emotional, social and economic aspects of life.

2. Aim to build decision-making and problem-solving skills and strategies to help students make informed decisions and resist drug use, peer pressure and violence.

3. Provide students with alternatives to drug use.

In January of 2002, Lee Bros. Leasing, Inc. donated a 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser Sport Wagon to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office for use as a D.A.R.E. vehicle. Tires Unlimited, Feature Graphics, and Summit Racing also donated to the cause by supplying wheels, tires, and logos.