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The D.A.R.E program focuses on:

• Providing factual information about effects of drug, alcohol and tobacco.
• Providing students with decision making skills.
• Teaching students how to resist peer pressure.
• Providing students with alternative ideas to drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
• Teaching students to resist gangs and crime.

In 1990, the Mt Vernon D.A.R.E. program was launched in the city schools. The program is taught to the 5th Grade students. About 600 students graduate from the D.A.R.E. program each year.

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