Drug Abuse Resistance Education
Drug Abuse Resistance Education , or DARE for short , is an American drug prevention program . Since it began in 1983, it has become the best-known educational campaign about drug abuse among young people. It was born out of "a collaboration between the Los Angeles police and school administration" and is administered by the non-profit organization DARE America, Los Angeles. DARE is an advanced program in which the following goals are to be achieved through targeted teaching by uniformed police officers in primary school :
- increased knowledge
- Decision-making ability
- Self-confidence
- Ability to peer pressure withstand
See also
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- 2003 US Government Accountability Office letter to Senator Richard J. Durbin showing DARE to be ineffective
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.dare.com ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The DARE Mission> DARE At-A-Glance (Engl.). Accessed August 26, 2011.
- ^ Kromrey, Helmut: The evaluation of human services. Pitfalls in implementation and impact research as well as methodological alternatives. In: Müller-Kohlenberg; Münstermann (ed.): Quality of human services. Opladen. 2000, pp. 19-57.
