Officers of the Police Department have received special training for working with children and young adults in order to establish self-esteem, as well as remaining drug and alcohol free.
The Mundelein Police Department teaches a Drug Abuse and Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program in local schools. D.A.R.E. is a drug abuse prevention program designed to equip elementary school children with basic life skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs and alcohol. The core curriculum focuses on 5th and 6th grade students who are visited once a week for 17 weeks. Each lesson is 45 to 60 minutes and involves the students in a variety of exercises.
D.A.R.E. gives children the skills to recognize and resist the pressures that cause them to experiment with drugs and alcohol, as well as learning to "say no" to the different types of peer pressure. D.A.R.E. helps build a child’s self-esteem. They learn that there are alternatives to taking drugs. Furthermore, students are taught methods for handling stress, value judgments and risks, as well as respect for the law, personal safety, and how to recognize the glamorization of drugs and alcohol in the media. The program concludes with graduation ceremonies honoring those students for their successful completion of the D.A.R.E. program.
G.R.E.A.T. is a
program designed to help children set goals for themselves, resist pressures to
join gangs, teaches children how to resolve conflict without violence, and helps
them understand how gangs and youth violence impact the quality of their lives.
G.R.E.A.T. students discover for themselves the ramifications of gang and
youth violence through structured exercises and interactive approaches to
learning.
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