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• <br />• <br />JUNIOR HIGH DARE CURRICULUM <br />1) Officer presentation to help students explore the ways that the use of <br />drugs affects every person living in a community. <br />ASSERTIVE RESISTANCE <br />2) Officer presentation designed to make students aware of the various <br />pressures that influence people to use drugs and to teach assertiveness as <br />a way to resist these pressures. <br />FORMING POSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS <br />3) Officer presentation to help students recognize ways that individuals can <br />reach out to form positive relationships with many different people to help <br />one another fulfill their needs for affection (being liked), belonging, <br />recognition, respect, and feelings of self- worth. <br />RESOLVING CONFLICT WITHOUT VIOLENCE <br />4) Officer presentation designed to help students to explore ways of dealing <br />with anger and conflicts without resorting to acts of violence. <br />DESTRUCTIVE ECOLOGY: TAGGING AND TRASHING <br />5) Officer conducted discussion and participatory activities to help students <br />understand how destructive acts of vandalism against personal or public <br />property or living things affect everyone. <br />PRESSURE FROM GANGS AND GANG VIOLENCE <br />6) Officer presentation to make students aware of the kinds of pressures and <br />violence they may encounter from gangs and to help them evaluate the <br />consequences of the choices available to them. <br />7) We are not only responsible for our own actions, we have a responsibility <br />to help our neighborhoods and schools remain drug /gang free and to make it <br />a safe place to live. <br />GOAL SETTING <br />8) The officer informs the students that they are responsible for their <br />future. Presenting the students with short and long term goals, and how <br />drugs and gangs can interfere with their goals. <br />PROJECT D.A.R.E. REVIEW ACTIVITIES <br />9) Officer presentation involves reviewing the risks and consequences of <br />substance abuse and violence. Appropriate techniques to resist pressures <br />to become involved in these kinds of behavior are reviewed. <br />DARE TO BE <br />10) Students will develop and read aloud their commitment to resist pressures <br />to use drugs or become involved in acts of violence. <br />