Arizona
Apache Junction Has a New Drug-Prevention Group
"Stand Up AJ” is to replace a drug-prevention coalition that started serving Apache Junction in 2008 and is dissolving. A drug-prevention group forming in Apache Junction recently held a Zoom meeting with 27 participants. They ranged from law-enforcement officials to educators and National Guard Counter Drug Task Force representatives.
D.A.R.E. Partners with Houston, Texas School Districts to Help Bridge Digital Divide for Children
D.A.R.E. America International is donating over a thousand computers for the use of students of the Houston Independent School District in an initiative to help address concerns about the students’ access to technology needed for remote learning…
Our View: Law-Full Education
Education is the best defense against ignorance. In an era of proposing to defund the work of local law enforcement — effectively handcuffing officers and deputies from doing their jobs — Watauga, Ashe, Avery and much of the High Country get painted with the same…
BACK TO SCHOOL: County’s New D.A.R.E. Officer Set to Give Back to Program that Helped Him
Law enforcement officers are trained mostly to be a reactive force, but D.A.R.E. officers are taught to be proactive, going into the schools and educating fifth-grade students about alcohol, drugs and violent behavior before they have a chance to get in trouble. To…
More from Hometown Arizona
New D.A.R.E. Instructors from the 40th Mississippi/Alabama D.A.R.E. Officer Training (Feb 5 – 16, 2018). States represented are Mississippi, Alabama, and Arizona
KARE Donation to Family Promise of Greater Phoenix
We want to thank you so much for your generous donation of the 21 cases of hygiene kits! We didn’t realize there would be 1,200 individual kits…how wonderful! We are so grateful that you chose Family Promise to bless with your gifts! Our families have...
LCPD Hosts D.A.R.E. Officer Training Course
The Las Cruces Police Department is hosting a Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer training course with attendees from New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California, New Jersey and Maryland. The two-week, 80-hour, course began Monday, Feb. 4, and is being held at the...
Cocopah Police Department Gets New D.A.R.E. Vehicle
Yuma Dealership Donates Vehicle To Cocopah Police Department. Cocopah Tribal Police Sgt. Jesus Verdugo accepts the keys of a new police car donated by Fisher Automotive Dealer Joe Fisher on Wednesday morning. The police car is wrapped in the Drug Abuse Resistance...
YAB Members Participate in Creating PSA Video to Promote D.A.R.E. myPlaybook High School Curriculum
YAB Members with Retro Bill in Orlando, Florida. Top: Jacqueline Ho, Marlon Sanders MS. Middle: Kobe Blackwell - AZ, Tori Streater - TX, Annessa Masterson - OK, Spencer Flanders – NV. Middle: Mistie Bell-Renfro, Brighton Turner – NM, Megan Kirchoff – MO, Gabe...
Cocopah Tribal Police Department graduates first D.A.R.E. class
D.A.R.E. Instructor and Cocopah Tribal Police Officer Jesus Verdugo reads an essay written by one of the more than 160 students from Somerton’s Tierra Del Sol Elementary school who graduated Monday afternoon from the Cocopah Tribal Police Department’s first Drug...
Internet Safety is Topic of Parent Presentation
Surprise Elementary School will host a parent presentation by notMYkid on Thursday, November 20, 2014, at 6 p.m., on the topic of Internet safety. notMYkid is a non-profit organization with the vision that “Every kid will have the knowledge and confidence to reach...
Cocopah Police Ready to Launch D.A.R.E. Program
Jesus Verdugo, a Cocopah tribal police officer, will teach a D.A.R.E. class to students in the Somerton Elementary School District. The Cocopah Tribal Police Department, along with the Somerton School District, is preparing to launch its Drug Abuse Resistance...
Dennis Osborn
Western Regional Director
Phone: (424) 227-2346
Email: Dennis Osborn
Upcoming Events
State D.A.R.E. Contacts
State D.A.R.E. Coordinator
Keven Rush
Payson Police Department
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (928) 595-4044
State D.A.R.E. Officers Association President
Gary Douglas
Benson Police Department
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (520) 586-2213 X 649
Dennis Osborn
Western Regional Director
Phone: (424) 227-2346
Email: Dennis Osborn
Upcoming Events
State D.A.R.E. Contacts
State D.A.R.E. Coordinator
Keven Rush
Payson Police Department
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (928) 595-4044
State D.A.R.E. Officers Association President
Gary Douglas
Benson Police Department
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (520) 586-2213 X 649
More from Hometown Arizona
New D.A.R.E. Instructors from the 40th Mississippi/Alabama D.A.R.E. Officer Training (Feb 5 – 16, 2018). States represented are Mississippi, Alabama, and Arizona
KARE Donation to Family Promise of Greater Phoenix
We want to thank you so much for your generous donation of the 21 cases of hygiene kits! We didn’t realize there would be 1,200 individual kits…how wonderful! We are so grateful that you chose Family Promise to bless with your gifts! Our families have...
LCPD Hosts D.A.R.E. Officer Training Course
The Las Cruces Police Department is hosting a Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer training course with attendees from New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California, New Jersey and Maryland. The two-week, 80-hour, course began Monday, Feb. 4, and is being held at the...
Cocopah Police Department Gets New D.A.R.E. Vehicle
Yuma Dealership Donates Vehicle To Cocopah Police Department. Cocopah Tribal Police Sgt. Jesus Verdugo accepts the keys of a new police car donated by Fisher Automotive Dealer Joe Fisher on Wednesday morning. The police car is wrapped in the Drug Abuse Resistance...
YAB Members Participate in Creating PSA Video to Promote D.A.R.E. myPlaybook High School Curriculum
YAB Members with Retro Bill in Orlando, Florida. Top: Jacqueline Ho, Marlon Sanders MS. Middle: Kobe Blackwell - AZ, Tori Streater - TX, Annessa Masterson - OK, Spencer Flanders – NV. Middle: Mistie Bell-Renfro, Brighton Turner – NM, Megan Kirchoff – MO, Gabe...
Cocopah Tribal Police Department graduates first D.A.R.E. class
D.A.R.E. Instructor and Cocopah Tribal Police Officer Jesus Verdugo reads an essay written by one of the more than 160 students from Somerton’s Tierra Del Sol Elementary school who graduated Monday afternoon from the Cocopah Tribal Police Department’s first Drug...
Internet Safety is Topic of Parent Presentation
Surprise Elementary School will host a parent presentation by notMYkid on Thursday, November 20, 2014, at 6 p.m., on the topic of Internet safety. notMYkid is a non-profit organization with the vision that “Every kid will have the knowledge and confidence to reach...
Cocopah Police Ready to Launch D.A.R.E. Program
Jesus Verdugo, a Cocopah tribal police officer, will teach a D.A.R.E. class to students in the Somerton Elementary School District. The Cocopah Tribal Police Department, along with the Somerton School District, is preparing to launch its Drug Abuse Resistance...
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