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The Seymour Police Department D.A.R.E
Program was initiated in 1999 by Chief JB Hamlin after assigning Officer Billy Smith as the first
D.A.R.E. instructor. Officer Tim Toborg, who is currently the
primary instructor for the program, was assigned in 2000. Detective Greg O'Brien was assigned as an instructor in
2004 and still maintains his teaching status. The program currently involves 19 classrooms taught at 9 different
public and parochial schools. Combined, the instructors are responsible for teaching approximately 400 children
in the community. Each Officer was required to attend a 2 week training course to receive a certification to become
an instructor. Following are the schools that the Seymour Police Department is responsible for:
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Brown Elementary
Cortland Elementary
Emerson Elementary
Immanual Lutheran School
Jackson
Elementary
Redding Elementary
Saint Ambrose School
Sauers Saint John's Lutheran School
Seymour Christian
Academy
What does this program involve? Well,
there are several different aspects to the program, but it is all based on the D.A.R.E.
acronym and D.A.R.E. Model as follows:
Acronym:
D. - Drug
A. - Abuse - misuse of...
R.
- Resistance - to say no to...
E. - Education
- to learn
Model:
D. - Define -
What's the problem or opportunity?
A. - Assess - Think
of choices or options.
R. - Respond - Make your decision.
E. - Evaluate - Check your decision - Was it a good choice?
Role Models are selected from high school
Juniors and Seniors that have remained drug-free. The role models talk with students, sharing encounters they've
experienced along with success stories. They encourage the students that they too can remain drug free!
The basics of the course are designed to
teach not only drug awareness, but give children the skills they will need to make better decisions when faced with a
choice involving drugs.
The D.A.R.E. Program was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles, California, after an officer's child was found
with marijuana. After asking his child "didn't I teach you about drugs", and receiving the response from
the child, "No dad, you never talk", the officer decided that drug awareness must start at a young age not
only with his child, but everyone's children. What better venue to conduct this program than our school systems.
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