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Drug Abuse
Resistance Education (DARE)
"D.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse
Resistance Education) is a comprehensive prevention education
program designed to equip school children with skills to recognize
and resist social pressures to experiment with tobacco, alcohol,
other drugs and violence. This unique program utilizes uniformed law
enforcement officers to teach a formal curriculum to students in a
classroom setting. D.A.R.E. gives special attention to fifth and
sixth grade students to prepare them for entry into intermediate &
high school, where they are most likely to encounter pressure to use
drugs. D.A.R.E also offers a formal curriculum at the high school
level which is a follow-up & re-enforcement of the core training
(grade 5 & 6). Also there will soon be a parents program to
compliment the children's programs."
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Aboriginal Shield
Program 
The Aboriginal Shield Program is a substance abuse prevention
initiative designed specifically for Aboriginal youth.
The program content was
developed in partnership with the Nechi Institute on Alcohol and
Drug Education, and is oriented to supplement existing substance
abuse education programs. Police officers may use this
culturally-specific package to educate Aboriginal youth about
substance abuse issues.
The resource material consists
of four teaching modules pertaining to Aboriginal culture, substance
abuse, prevention and informed and responsible decision-making. An
"Officers' Training Guide", and "Officers' Educational Cultural
Reference Manual" are also included. As of April 1996, twenty
training workshops were delivered to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
police officers, community leaders, health care workers and
education specialists serving Aboriginal communities across Canada.
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Police Assisting Community Education (PACE)
 PACE
is a drug education package for grades 5 through 9, and is designed
to enhance the relationship between the police and youth within the
community. It is intended to supplement other classroom activity
focused on drug prevention.
PACE provides a comprehensive training
package for police officers, as well as twenty complete lesson plans
complementing four distinct subject areas; Legal Information, You
and the Group, Myths and Reality, and Alternatives (to drug use).
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