Thank You Constable Norm Adams

The following outlines the DA.R.E. curriculum. One lesson is presented each week throughout a grade school semester.
1. Introducing D.A.R.E.  Acquaints students with role of police and practices for student safety.
2. UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF MIND ALTERING DRUGS   Helps students understand harmful effects of drugs.
3. CONSEQUENCES  Helps students understand the negative consequences of drug use and the positive consequences of saying no to drugs and avoiding violence.
4. CHANGING BELIEFS ABOUT DRUG USE  Makes students aware of kinds of peer pressure they may face and helps them learn to say no to offers to use drugs.
5. RESISTANCE TECHNIQUES  WAYS TO SAY "NO"  Teaches students ways to say no in resisting various types of pressure.
6. BUILDING SELF-ESTEEM  Helps students understand that self-image results from positive and negative feelings and experiences.
7. ASSERTIVENESS: A RESPONSE STYLE  Teaches that assertiveness is a response style that enables a person to state his or her own rights without loss of self-esteem.
8. MANAGING STRESS WITHOUT TAKING DRUGS  Helps students recognize stress and suggests ways to deal with it other than by taking drugs.
9. REDUCING VIOLENCE  Helps students identify nonviolent ways to deal with anger and disagreement.
10. MEDIA INFLUENCES ON DRUG USE AND VIOLENCE  Helps students develop the understanding and skills needed to analyze and resist media presentations about alcohol, drug use and violence.
11. MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT RISKY BEHAVIOR  Helps students apply the decision-making process in evaluating the results of various kinds of risk-taking behavior, including that of drugs and violence.
12. SAYING ‘YES’ To POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES  Helps students find out about activities that are interesting and in which they can achieve success.
13. POSITIVE ROLE MODELING  older student leaders and other positive role models that do not use drugs talk to younger students to clarify the misconception that those who use drugs are in the majority.
14. RESISTING GANG AND GROUP VIOLENCE  Helps students identify situations in which they may be pressured by gangs and evaluate the consequences of the choices available to them.
15. DARE SUMMARY Helps students summarize and assess what they learned from the program.
16. TAKING A STAND  Students take a positive stand to be drug free and to avoid violence by putting their commitment in writing and reading it aloud.
17. CULMINATION  Student graduation from the DA.R.E. program.