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| D.A.R.E.
(Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
The Covington Police Department has offered the DARE program to the community since 1990 and fully supports the benefits that it offers our youth and the community. Officer Fry is the departments primary D.A.R.E. instructor
DARE OFFICER - CPL Todd Fry
Purpose & Mission
DARE. is a collective effort by DARE certified law enforcement officers, educators, students, parents and the community to provide an educational program in the classroom to prevent or reduce drug abuse and violence among children and youth.
The DARE program offers preventive strategies to enhance those protective factors-especially bonding to the family, school, and community-which appear to foster the development of resiliency in young people who may be at risk for substance abuse or other problem behaviors. Researchers have identified certain protective and social bonding factors in the family, school, and community which may foster resiliency in young people, in other words, the capacity of young people for healthy, independent growth in spite of adverse conditions. These strategies focus on the development of social competence, communication skills, self-esteem, empathy, decision making, conflict resolution, sense of purpose and independence, and positive alternative activities to drug abuse and other destructive behaviors.
Organization
The Covington Police Department offers DARE for the 5th grade level. The program is organized into seventeen 45-60 minute lessons to be taught by law enforcement officers with suggested extended activities to be integrated into other instruction by the classroom teacher. A specially trained officer is assigned to the school one day a week to conduct bi-weekly lessons in the 5th grade.
Peer Leadership (Interactive Group Participation)
DARE offers a variety of interactive, group-participation, cooperative-learning activities which are designed to encourage students to solve problems of major importance to their lives. An important element of DARE is the use of student leaders who do not use drugs as positive role models in influencing younger students.
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Culminating Activity
The last lesson of DARE is a culminating assembly-type activity to which all classes are involved in DARE are invited. This event provides an opportunity for recognition of the student leaders and all the students and staff who participated in the program.
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