D.A.R.E. Program

Kids today grow up in a complex and confusing world. They’re our kids… our future. We want their future to be bright, secure, healthy, and safe. That’s why there’s D.A.R.E.!

The Salem Police Department and Salem-Keizer School district are committed, like you, to providing a quality program that is educationally sound and tested. We understand the prevention and education are an important piece of the comprehensive puzzle. That’s why we teach the new D.A.R.E. program in the following schools:

1. Brush College 9. Hayesville 17. Pringle               25. Wright

2. Bush 10. Highland              18. Richmond     26. Yoshikai

3. Chapman Hill 11. Hoover                     19. Salem Heights 27. St. Joseph

4. Englewood 12. Lee 20. Schirle               28. St. Vincent

5. Grant 13. Liberty 21. Sumpter    29. Queen of Peace

6. Hallman 14. McKinley     22. Oregon School for the Deaf 30. Salem Academy East

7. Hammond 15. Morningside              23. Swegle 31. Salem Academy West

8. Harritt 16. Myers   24. Washington 32. Baker Charter School

The new D.A.R.E. program has three main goals. First, new D.A.R.E. seeks 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. Secondly, new D.A.R.E. aims to build decision-making and problem solving skills and strategies to help students make informed decisions and resist drug use, peer pressure, and violence. Lastly, an integral part of the new D.A.R.E. program is to provide students with alternatives to drug use. We are making a difference one school, one clasroom, one student at a time.

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