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Project DARE was jointly developed by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the
Los Angeles Police Department to prevent drug abuse in children and youth. The emphasis of
Project DARE--Senior High School is to reinforce the information and skills students need
to enable them to act in their own best interest when facing high-risk, low-gain choices
and to resist peer pressure and other influences in making their personal choices. Equal
emphasis is on helping students recognize feelings of anger without causing harm to
themselves or others and without resorting to violence or the use of alcohol and drugs.
This instructional guide for Project DARE has been developed to assist police officers,
school administrators, and teachers in the planning and implementation of a program of
drug abuse resistance education for students in senior high school.
The DARE/IMPACT program at the senior high school has two important components:
Prevention Education
A series of five lessons on social skills and violence prevention strategies to be
taught by a trained Officer-Instructor with required activities to be implemented by the
classroom teacher the day following the officer-led lesson. The lessons and activities
were designed to be implemented over a period of ten to eleven days in the required course
in health or in some other appropriate subject, such as science, social studies, or driver
education.
The DARE program lessons are designed to extend and reinforce the instructional content
on substance abuse prevention being taught by the regular classroom teacher. The classroom
teacher should maintain a supportive role in classroom management while the officer is
teaching. The classroom teacher should incorporate DARE program participation by students
as an integral part of the students' final evaluation.
Intervention
A school-based prevention-intervention component designed to provide procedures and
strategies for the identification, early intervention, and after-care support of students
whose school performance and behavior may be indicative of substance abuse or other
crises.
The prevention-intervention component includes the following educational activities to
heighten awareness and knowledge about alcohol and other drug dependencies:
Planning and implementation of the school behavior code that includes guidelines
concerning the possession or use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
Faculty in-service meeting
DARE education evening for parents
Instruction by DARE officer in target classrooms
Talkshops, interest groups, and other alternative activities during noon or after school
School-based mandatory support groups for identified and referred high-risk students
The Senior High Lesson Plan
(revised curriculum - 1999)
LESSON ONE - INTRODUCTION TO DARE SENIOR HIGH
Concept: Analyzing the risks and consequences of drug use and violence is
an important step in goal setting and the decision making process.
Purpose: To reacquaint students with the goals of the DARE program and to
help them explore their beliefs about the risks and harmfulness of drug use.
Objective: Students will become acquainted with the DARE Officer and the
overall goals of the DARE Program.
LESSON TWO - COSTS, SUPPLY, AND DEMAND
Concept: To reduce the continuing drug problem and the resulting costs to
society efforts must be undertaken to reduce the demand for as well as the supply of
drugs.
Purpose: To help students understand that in order to reduce the
continuing problem of drug abuse in society, efforts must be undertaken to reduce the
demand for drugs as well as their availability.
Objective: Students will be able to analyze the factors that may influence
a young person to start experimenting with drugs.
LESSON THREE - DECISIONS AND CONSEQUENCES
Concept: Decisions to use alcohol and other drugs may lead to significant
negative consequences for teenagers and their friends, family members, and community.
Purpose: To help students clarify their thoughts and opinions about drug
use and give them an opportunity to consider some of the consequences that may result from
using drugs.
Objective: Students will be able to associate the use of alcohol and other
drugs with the increased risk for problem behaviors that have negative consequences.
LESSON FOUR - TEENAGERS AND THE LAW
Concept: Laws are rules of conduct that have been established to protect
human health and provide safety, to ensure individual freedom and the security of one's
person and possessions, and to maintain an orderly society.
Purpose: To acquaint students with the juvenile justice system and the
laws.
Objective: Students will identify the purpose of laws and behavior codes
that relate to teenagers and the intent of the juvenile justice system.
LESSON FIVE - DRIVING WHILE IMPAIRED
Concept: Driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or another drug
increases fatal crashes for teenagers and otherwise adult drivers.
Purpose: To make students aware of the impairing effects of alcohol and
other drugs on a driver's ability to operate a vehicle safely and of the serious
consequences that may result for both teenage and adult drivers.
Objective: Students will fully understand the impairing effects of alcohol
on a driver's ability to operate a vehicle safely and the possible legal consequences of
driving while under the influence of intoxicating substances.
LESSON SIX - ZERO TOLERANCE AND DRUG TESTING
Concept: Zero tolerance laws and policies have been enacted to establish
standards for reducing accidents and for promoting a safe environment that is drug-,
alcohol-, and tobacco-free.
Purpose: To help students understand how zero-tolerance laws and policies
relative to alcohol and other drugs affect teenagers and how drug testing is being used to
verify being under the influence of an intoxicating substance.
Objective: Students will be able to associate the consumption of alcohol
and other drugs with accidents, injuries, and other problems resulting from the impaired
performance of complex mental and psychomotor functions.
LESSON SEVEN - DRUGS, MEDIA, AND VIOLENCE
Concept: Media messages can be an important persuasion in influencing
beliefs and behaviors about the use of alcohol and other drugs which, in turn, are
contributing factors in increasing the amount of violent behavior in young people.
Purpose: To help students understand how alcohol and drugs act as
contributing factors in increasing the amount of violent behavior, how the media
intensifies and overstates violence by reporting on it in a particular manner, and what
the consequences of violent behavior are.
Objective: Students will be able to recognize how alcohol and drugs and
the media can intensify violent behavior and to suggest ways to reduce violence.
LESSON EIGHT - MANAGING ANGER AND RESOLVING CONFLICT WITHOUT DRUGS
Concept: Recognizing and managing feelings of anger is a first step in
preventing violence between acquaintances.
Purpose: To help students understand the need to recognize and manage
feelings of anger without causing harm to themselves or others and without resorting to
violence or the use of alcohol or drugs.
Objective: Students will be able to identify positive ways for expressing
and managing feelings of anger and resolving conflict without the use of alcohol or drugs.
LESSON NINE - CHOOSING ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE
Concept: Choosing ways to resolve conflicts without violence requires
cooperative problem solving in which the persons involved work together to find a solution
agreeable to all parties.
Purpose: To help students recognize situations which may erupt into
violence and to explore alternatives to violence in resolving conflicts.
Objective: Students will be able to analyze situations which may erupt
into violence and to identify alternative strategies to violence in seeking acceptable
solutions to conflict.
LESSON TEN - FORMING SAFE AND HEALTHY TEEN RELATIONSHIPS
Concept: Safe and healthy relationships are based on respect,
trustworthiness, responsibility, equality, and effective communication skills rather than
on fear, intimidation, and possessiveness.
Purpose: To promote safe and healthy relationships by helping students
make choices in forming teen relationships based on respect, trustworthiness,
responsibility, equality, and effective communication skills rather than on fear,
intimidation, and possessiveness.
Objective: Students will be able to differentiate between those qualities
that help promote safe and healthy relationships and those that may lead to violence.
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