D.A.R.E.
Because we care.

Kids today grow up in a complex and confusing world.  Through television, movies, music, and, most of all, peers, our kids are exposed to drugs at a very early age.

They’re our kids...our future.  And we want their futures to be bright, secure, healthy and safe.

That’s why we care.  That’s why there is D.A.R.E.

D.A.R.E. teaches our children--from kindergarten through middle school--not just to refuse drugs, but how to do it.

The solution is education.  D.A.R.E. gives our children the tools they need to resist drugs and make the right choices.  D.A.R.E. sends a highly-trained police officer into classrooms to teach students how to refuse drugs and alcohol.

By getting the message from a street-wise law enforcement officer--one who’s been out there and knows how drugs and alcohol can destroy lives--kids take the message seriously.

D.A.R.E.
The New D.A.R.E. Difference

An Investment in
Your Community’s Future

The new D.A.R.E. curricula incorporate innovative prevention science and research-based strategies designed to improve student skills and outcomes.  D.A.R.E. offers interventions druing critical years of a students education: K-2nd, 3rd--4th, 5th, and 8th grades.  Only New D.A.R.E....

• Offers a science-based education based on principles of prevention
• Utilizes active learning
• Targets communication and refusal skills
• Teaches decision-making skills throughout lessons
• Promotes accurate normative beliefs
• Supports positive peer influence
• Promotes high self-efficacy
• Creates a working knowledge of risk
• Develops healthy attitudes
• Uses specially trained officers
• Is a community-based program
• Meets National Health Education Standards

D.A.R.E.
Because it works.

The new D.A.R.E. curricula integrates the latest in science and research-based strategies into the world's largest and most effective educational delivery network…D.A.R.E.  New D.A.R.E. is highly interactive, using small group discussions and role-playing of real-life situations kids face constantly - the temptation and peer pressure to use tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.

Rigorous scientific evaluation has documented that kids who complete the New D.A.R.E. program…

• Have improved decision - making skills,
• View drug use as unacceptable, and
• Possess a significantly decreased likelihood of ever using drugs.

Having a D.A.R.E. officer teaching in the classroom is an investment that pays dividends everyday - in healthy kids…healthy communities…and a healthy world.  Under the D.A.R.E. Officer Program, trained peace officers work with educators to support safe schools and healthy students.

D.A.R.E.
in Lafourche Parish

The D.A.R.E. Program in Lafourche Parish began in 1990.  The program has grown, and developed to include K-4th grade visitation lessons as well as an 8th grade middle school component.

The New  D.A.R.E. Program is taught in both Public and Private Elementary, and Middle Schools in Lafourche Parish.

Five certified D.A.R.E. officers teach the program in grades K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 8th reaching over 9,000 student each year. 

The New D.A.R.E. Program is being taught in a total of 33 schools, in 442 classes, with 9,171 students receiving the positive D.A.R.E. curriculum.

In Lafourche Parish DARE has a 98% student completion rate.

"We look forward to working with you and your child this school year!"

Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office
D.A.R.E. Officers:

• Lieutenant Nolan Smith Jr.
• Deputy Harold Hirsch
• Deputy Melanie Lagarde
• Deputy Mandy Falcon

D.A.R.E. America
P.O. Box 512090
Los Angeles, CA 90051-0090

800.223.DARE

www.dare.com

Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office D.A.R.E.
P.O. Box 5608
Thibodaux, LA 70302

985.532-4350

www.lpso.net