The Kansas D.A.R.E. program was created in 1999 by the legislature and has become an active partnership between parents, schools, and law enforcement.
School based law enforcement officers carry out D.A.R.E. programs in schools throughout Kansas. The Kansas Association of School Resource Officers (KASRO) carries out trainings and conferences for school based law enforcement officers, school administrators, and school security/safety professionals working as partners to protect students, school faculty and staff and the schools they attend.
6th Annual School Based Policing Conference
July 14 - 17, 2008 in Topeka, Kansas
D.A.R.E. lessons focus on the following objectives for all programs:
- Acquiring knowledge and skills to recognize and resist peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
- Enhancing self-esteem.
- Learning assertiveness techniques.
- Learning about positive alternatives to substance use.
- Building interpersonal and communications skills.
- Learning anger management and conflict resolution skills.
- Developing risk assessment and decision making skills.
- Reducing violence.
- Resisting gang involvement.