Hoisington Police Department D.A.R.E 109 East First, Hoisington, KS 67544   Emergency - 911

        The Hoisington Police Department has an active DARE program which reaches students through the elementary school ages. While the middle school and high school do not have the DARE program, department officers provide education programs in these grades at the request of individual teachers.
 
        DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a collaborative effort by DARE officers, educators, students, parents, and the community to offer an educational program in the classroom to prevent or reduce drug abuse and violence among children and youth.
 
        The aim is to help students recognize and resist the many direct and subtle pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants, or other drugs or to engage in violence.
 
        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.
 
        The core DARE program is given in the fifth grade with the hope that this age group has yet to be overly exposed to drugs. The tools taught in DARE will be with these students as they enter the middle school environment which studies show is the first place most youth are exposed to pressures to use drugs.
 

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