5th grade D.A.R.E Program - a Huge success!

The Numbers

Millions of children will benefit this year from the DARE program

220 new communities started D.A.R.E. in last three years

75% of USA school districts and 43 countries teach D.A.R.E.

10,000+ communities using D.A.R.E.

75,000+ D.A.R.E. officers trained/certified throughout USA

$12 per child from K through 12 for all educational materials
(as a non-profit D.A.R.E. is the most affordable program available) 

The Program

Curriculum developed by educators, taught by trained officers

Focuses on responsibility, resisting peer pressure

Implementation is community decision

Elementary, middle, high school, after-school, parental components

Training mandatory for instructors before they enter the classroom

New science-based curricula from top researchers

—Research and principle based content
—Authentic activities
—Active learning principles and “best teaching” practices
—Complex reasoning and decision-making
—Officers as facilitators not lecturers

The Science

D.A.R.E. has a Scientific Advisory Board led by Dr. Herb Kleber, Columbia University

NIDA issued Research Based Guide identifying standards for prevention programs, publication proposed checklist of research-based prevention principles—D.A.R.E. was only program to satisfy all eight categories .

Study recently published in the Journal of the National Medical Association demonstrates that the D.A.R.E. curriculum is highly effective in prevention of smoking. Students that completed the D.A.R.E. program were five times less likely to start smokingcompared to youngsters who did not participate in D.A.R.E.