Project: D.A.R.E. to Take Charge of the Delta (Project #34)
Lead Agency: Delta Council
The DHA is partnering with the Delta Council, an area economic development organization representing the eighteen counties of northwest Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta, to implement the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E. ®) to Take Charge of the Delta project. D.A.R.E. ® is a nationally recognized model for the prevention of drug abuse and crime. Students that participate in the D.A.R.E. program will learn to better access the risks associated with substance abuse, enhance decision-making and resistance strategies to improve antidrug normative beliefs and attitudes, and reduce substance abuse.
D.A.R.E. ® to Take Charge of the Delta project will target seventh and eighth grade middle school students in the eighteen-county MS Delta region. The following goals have been established for Project #34:
- coordinate substance abuse prevention programs for middle school students throughout the MS Delta Region by collaborating with the community and other service organizations to set up and/or expand Drug Abuse Resistance Education(D.A.R.E.®) thereby addressing the problem of substance abuse among Mississippi’s teens,
- to study the impact of this community-based dual-model approach on key performance measures as supported by Healthy People 2010, Office of Justice, and Health & Human Services.
For more information please visit www.deltacouncildare.org
Delta Council D.A.R.E.
P.O. Box 257
Stoneville, MS 38776
dare@deltacouncil.org
662-686-3368
