D.A.R.E. Program Notes:

D.A.R.E. To Resist Drugs and Violence

500. A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. The Henniker Police Department has been teaching the D.A.R.E. program in the Henniker Community School for about 16 years. The program has been taught mostly at the fifth grade level. We have found that young people start to make poor decisions in middle school and in 2006 we started teaching the middle school D.A.R.E. curriculum to seventh graders.

For the D.A.R.E. program to be successful we need to work as a team, the police department, the school district, the community, and the parents. We should all strive to keep our youth drug and violence free.

The Henniker D.A.R.E. program is funded by the Henniker Police Association, the Masons, and private donations.

D.A.R.E. 2008

For the year 2008 Officer Michael Martin instructed D.A.R.E. to the fifth and seventh grades. In the fifth grade he graduated 45 students, and in the seventh grade he graduated 60 students. For the fifth grade graduation a ceremony was held at the Henniker Community

School. The seventh grade had a pizza party to celebrate their completion of the program.
The fifth grade essay winner was asked to ride in the cruiser with Chief Russell during the Memorial Day Parade.
Congratulations D.A.R.E. graduates!!