{"id":1,"date":"2010-01-14T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T04:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-02-08T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:05:05","slug":"anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"20TH ANNIVERSARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

JANUARY\u00a014, 2010 PRESS RELEASE<\/em><\/p>\n

St. Cloud, MN\u2014On January 20, 2010, Minnesota D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) will celebrate 20 years of service to Minnesota children and families.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A year of special activities will commemorate the event.<\/p>\n

The D.A.R.E. program was developed as a pilot program in 1983 in Los Angeles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This was largely in response to a large increase in drug use and abuse creating increases in crime.\u00a0\u00a0D.A.R.E. was a program that utilized specially trained, uniformed, law enforcement in the classrooms to gain the attention of the students and to provide information about their neighborhoods.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0These officers saw the ineffectiveness of reacting to the problem and wanted instead to prevent it.<\/p>\n

As the drug problems carried into the Midwest, Attorney General Skip Humphrey sent Norm Coleman (who worked for Skip Humphrey at that time) to learn about this D.A.R.E. program.\u00a0\u00a0Under the direction and leadership of Attorney General Humphrey and Norm Coleman, the Minnesota project quickly took off and became a lead program in the country.<\/p>\n

In 1990, Norm Coleman signed the Articles of Incorporation setting up Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc. as the nonprofit to manage D.A.R.E. programming for Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Today, Minnesota D.A.R.E. is much more than a drug and alcohol prevention program.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This program is recognized and remembered by many as a friendship between a \u201ccop and a kid.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Hundreds of officers have been specially trained by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.\u00a0\u00a0These officers touch over 70,000 students annually in grades Kindergarten through High School.\u00a0After 20 years in Minnesota, we are now preparing to reach a second generation of D.A.R.E. students.<\/p>\n

This one time drug prevention program now takes on many safety issues our young people face\u2014bullying and cyberbullying; respect and friendship; Internet Safety; gangs; role models; and prescription and over the counter drug abuse.\u00a0\u00a0Community presentations are now presented to parents, grandparents, and others in the community.\u00a0Special events or positive alternatives are conducted to include the entire family.\u00a0\u00a0Many other collaborators have joined the program like the Minnesota National Guard Counterdrug Unit and the Minnesota Pharmacists Association\/Foundation.\u00a0\u00a0Foundations, corporations, businesses and hundreds of individuals come together to support our young people.<\/p>\n

With so much attention on the high costs of health care; the lack of support for prevention is once again being brought to the table.\u00a0\u00a0We know that prison does not work.\u00a0\u00a0Treatment is a difficult road. Social services and hospitals cannot handle the load.\u00a0\u00a0All are very costly.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the meantime, lack of insurance for drug abusers, crime, and family issues impact all Minnesotans.\u00a0\u00a0Prevention just seems logical.\u00a0\u00a0We are talking about our children.<\/p>\n

Join Minnesota D.A.R.E., our officers, students, alumni, educators, and supporters in celebrating our accomplishments and entering another decade of support for our children and families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 14, 2010 Press Release in St. Cloud, MN for the celebration of Minnesota D.A.R.E.’s 20th anniversary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}