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Newton-Lee Elementary School D.A.R.E. Graduation
The LCSO was excited to start off the New Year with the first D.A.R.E. America International graduation of 2020 at Newton-Lee Elementary School. This year the LCSO will hold 60 graduations and will teach D.A.R.E. to over 12,000 elementary and middle schoolers in...
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D.A.R.E. Returns to Bath Schools
Deputy Laura Rogers of the Bath County Sheriff’s Office visited The Recorder last week with her Drug Abuse Resistance Education materials. Rogers is teaching D.A.R.E. to fifth and eighth graders in Bath County schools this year, the first time D.A.R.E. has been...
Getting to Know Your Virginia Sheriffs – Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman
Mike Chapman was elected Sheriff, Loudoun County, VA in 2011 and took office January 2012. He was reelected in 2015, and began his second term in January, 2016. He directs an $87M budget and operations for the largest Sheriff’s office in the Commonwealth of Virginia which handles county-wide law enforcement, the jail and our courts...
Tazewell Deputy Recognized As D.A.R.E. Officer Of The Year
TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA (WOAY) – Deputy Landon Hieatt of the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office was recognized at the 2019 Virginia School Safety Training Forum in Hampton, Virginia on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, as the recipient of the Bentowski-Eanes Virginia D.A.R.E....
Greene County Schools Welcome D.A.R.E. Program Back into the Classroom
GREENE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - The Greene County Sheriff’s Office will soon help educate students on the dangers of drugs and alcohol. The school division is bringing the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program back into the classroom after more than a...
Portsmouth Sheriff Relaunches D.A.R.E.; This Program Focuses on More Than Drugs
Hodges Manor Elementary School student Rylee Long hugs Daren the Lion, the mascot of D.A.R.E, at the December 6 graduation ceremony...
Caitlin Walker, 2018 D.A.R.E. America National Scholarship Awardee
Virginia's Caitlin Walker receives the 2018 D.A.R.E. America National Scholarship Award from D.A.R.E. America President & Chief Executive Officer Frank Pegueros during the 31st D.A.R.E. International Training Conference, held July 10 to 12, 2018 at Rosen Centre...
York County Sheriff and Superintendent Double Down on D.A.R.E.
A York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office cruiser parked outside the Sheriff's Office in York County. (File Photo Steve Roberts Jr). York-Poquoson Sheriff Danny Diggs and York County School Division Superintendent Victor Shandor seek to end the opioid crisis by teaching...
Spotsylvania Co. Aims for Armed Deputies in All Elementary Schools
WASHINGTON — Spotsylvania County’s Sheriff’s Office plans to have armed School Resource Officers in all 17 county elementary schools by the end of next school year. Most Virginia counties have SROs — typically local police officers or sheriff’s deputies — at all...
Mark Medford
Northeast Regional Director
Phone: (424) 227-2384
Fax: (800) 303-1905
Email: Mark Medford
Upcoming Events
Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach
Cancún, Mexico
State D.A.R.E. Contacts
State Training Coordinator
Rob Hefner
Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office
Email: rhefner@culpepercounty.gov
Phone: (540) 718-3678
State D.A.R.E. Officers Association President
Deputy Chris Brown
Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office
Email: chris.brown@pittgov.org
Phone: (434) 432-7931
Fax: (434) 432-7823
Olivia Young, D.A.R.E. America Youth Advocacy Board Member from Virginia
Virginia Local D.A.R.E. Websites
- Amherst County Sheriff’s Office
- Bristol Sheriff’s Office
- Chilhowie Police Department
- Ferry Farm Elementary School
- Goochland County Sheriff’s Office
- Harrisonburg Police Department
- John W. Tolbert, Jr. Elementary School
- Lancaster Sheriff’s Office
- Loudon County Sheriff’s Office
- Lucketts Elementary School
- Lynchburg Police Department
- Middlesex Sheriff’s Office
- Page County Sheriff’s Office
- Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office
- Portsmouth Police Department
- Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office
- Salem Police Department
- Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office
- Virginia D.A.R.E. Officers Association
- Windsor Woods Elementary School
- York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office
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