The Willard PAL Program started as a concept by longtime Police Chief Tom McClain to keep kids engaged after they graduated from the DARE Program. In the past 15 years, it’s expanded enough to impact ...

-The DARE program was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles to provide students the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs and violence. Due to its success, the program is currently used in 75 ...

Fifth-grade students in Ginger Rackley’s class at Saluda Elementary School celebrated their completion of the DARE program ...

Merrillville police Sgt. John Kralik doesn't mind his students calling him Officer Friendly. It's an easy nickname for the younger students to remember, and Kralik, a Drug Abuse Resistance Education ...

Chief Deputy Spencer Daniels, School Resource Deputy and DARE Instructor Rodney Brown, and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Deputy Unit, in conjunction with the administration of ...

A lack of funding for a national drug prevention program is one reason several local police departments no longer offer drug prevention education in schools, officials said. The DARE program, which ...