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D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)

• Lieutenant Randy Aguillard
• Phone: (225) 389-5131
• Fax: (225) 389-8321
• Email DARE

The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office is proud to participate in a program which teaches children about the dangers of drug and alcohol use, and the violence which often accompanies it.

The D.A.R.E. Program is at the forefront of substance abuse prevention education. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office successfully implemented D.A.R.E. in the Fall Semester of 1994. Currently D.A.R.E. is taught in 22 Private/Parochial and 19 Public Schools in East Baton Rouge Parish. During the 2005-2006 school year over 3,000 graduated from the D.A.R.E. Program.

D.A.R.E. is designed to give young people the facts about drugs and alcohol and to "inoculate" them against negative peer pressure by teaching them self-management and resistance skills. The Sheriff's Office has 3 carefully selected D.A.R.E. uniformed Deputies, who are thoroughly trained to teach D.A.R.E.. D.A.R.E. Deputies are assigned up to 8 schools per semester, and Deputies visit each assigned school at least 1 day a week for 10 weeks to present an innovative curriculum that emphasizes self-esteem, taking responsibility for one's own behavior, and saying "no" to drug experimentation. D.A.R.E. focuses special attention on students in elementary school exit grades (5 or 6) who are not yet likely to have been led by their peers to experiment with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and are, therefore, more receptive to prevention education.

A basic precept of the D.A.R.E. Program is that elementary school children lack sufficient social skills to resist peer pressure and to say no to drugs. D.A.R.E. instructors do not use the scare tactics of traditional approaches that focus on the dangers of use. Instead, the instructors work with children to raise their self esteem, teach them how to make decisions on their own, and help them to identify positive alternatives to substance abuse.

Many people believe that, over time, a change in public attitudes will reduce the demand for drugs. D.A.R.E. seeks to promote that change by reaching children at an early age. Equally the D.A.R.E. officers help children develop more mature decision-making capabilities that they can apply to many different situations as they grow up. Drug Abuse Resistance Education is our most promising long-range solution. D.A.R.E. has helped to produce future generations of young adults who not only have no appetite for drugs, but who also have the strength of character to dissuade others from drug abuse to save this nation's most vital resource, our children.