Arizona

Apache Junction Has a New Drug-Prevention Group

Sep 1, 2020

“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.

KARE Donation to Family Promise of Greater Phoenix

Oct 24, 2019

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

Feb 5, 2019

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

Oct 11, 2016

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

Jul 5, 2016

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 –...

Cocopah Tribal Police Department graduates first D.A.R.E. class

Dec 3, 2014

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 Abuse...

Internet Safety is Topic of Parent Presentation

Nov 19, 2014

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

Aug 20, 2014

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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