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Direct linkShamblen, Stephen R.; Courser, Matthew W.; Abadi, Melissa H.; Johnson, Knowlton W.; Young, Linda; Browne, Thomas J. – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2014
Introduction: Although Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) has been one of the most commonly used prevention programmes in the United States, few evaluations have shown DARE to be an effective prevention program. DARE (or PROERD) is frequently used in Brazil as well. A central component of DARE is police officers serving as instructors. It was…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Program Evaluation, Prevention, Police School Relationship
Esbensen, Finn-Aage; Peterson, Dana; Taylor, Terrance J.; Freng, Adrienne; Osgood, D. Wayne; Carson, Dena C.; Matsuda, Kristy N. – Journal of School Violence, 2011
The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program is a gang- and delinquency-prevention program delivered by law enforcement officers within a school setting. Originally designed in 1991 by Phoenix-area law enforcement agencies to address local needs, the program quickly spread across the United States. In this article, we describe…
Descriptors: Crime, Prevention, Police, Law Enforcement
van Noije, Lonneke; Wittebrood, Karin – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
How effective are policy interventions to fight crime and how valid is the policy theory that underlies them? This is the twofold research question addressed in this article, which presents an evidence-based evaluation of Dutch social safety policy. By bridging the gap between actual effects and assumed effects, this study seeks to make fuller use…
Descriptors: Crime, Prevention, Law Enforcement, Misconceptions
Download full textJohnson, Beth; Tidd, Simon T. – Online Submission, 2011
Austin Community Collaboration to Enhance Student Success (ACCESS) funded prevention and intervention efforts to law-enforcement gang suppression work. Since 2007-2008, students' reports of gang activity at both middle schools and high schools have declined, reversing a trend of increased reports of gang activity in the years preceding the…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, Prevention, Intervention, Middle School Students
Nakashian, Mary – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2010
Zili Sloboda, Sc.D., and colleagues at the University of Akron, Ohio, designed and evaluated "Take Charge of Your Life", a substance abuse prevention curriculum for 7th- and 9th-grade students delivered by D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) police officers. They designed "Take Charge of Your Life" to impact students'…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Peer reviewedGriffith, John S. – Early Child Development and Care, 1999
Outlines the development of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (DARE), particularly in the United Kingdom, and explores the added value of DARE for children, schools, teachers, and the community. Considers the development of DARE in terms of curriculum review to optimize DARE in accordance with current best practice guidance. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Children, Curriculum, Drug Education, Elementary Education
PDF pending restorationRingwalt, Christopher L.; And Others – 1994
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) was designed to prevent students' use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs by using trained, uniformed police officers in the classroom. This report examines the effectiveness of DARE in drug use prevention and how this program compares to other prevention programs. The report is organized into four sections…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Drug Education, Drug Use
Silva, Roberta K. – 1994
The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program teaches students decision-making skills, shows them how to resist peer pressure to experiment with drugs and alcohol, and provides positive alternatives to drug use. This report looks at one state's DARE programs. Included are an overview of the implementation process, a program appraisal with…
Descriptors: Children, Crime Prevention, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Van Burgh, Jill Wright; Render, Gary F.; Moon, Charles E. – 1995
This report explores the effects of "DARE To Resist Drugs and Violence" program on students' knowledge regarding drugs and alcohol and their attitudes toward authority figures (i.e., teachers and law enforcement officers) involved in the program. Project DARE was presented in 10 consecutive lessons (two days per week for five weeks) to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Grade 8
Curtis, Charles K. – 1999
This paper reports on part one of a study that examined the effectiveness of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Program as a drug resistance, violence avoidance program in West Vancouver, Canada schools. Attitudes toward DARE held by students, teachers, and parents of children in the program were examined in order to evaluate how DARE was…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Green, Connie Roberta; And Others – 1992
This study evaluates and examines teaching strategies used by Project DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), a program developed by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District. Through a planned curriculum, uniformed law enforcement officers present information to fifth- and sixth-grade students on substance…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Health Promotion
Sharkey, Suzanne A. – 1998
Project YES! (Yes to Education and Skills) is a gang violence and drug prevention curriculum created in part from funding from the California Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning. It has been implemented in California schools since 1991, and was introduced to the Austin Independent School District (AISD) in 1998. The program, which is…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Curriculum, Drug Use, Elementary School Students
