Jeffersontown Police Department

Officer Sherry Hackel, our lead D.A.R.E. instructor is pictured to the left.

D.A.R.E. is an innovate program taught by the Jeffersontown Police Department in cooperation with local schools. The program is taught to 4th & 5th graders at the cities five elementary schools. Tully, Jeffersontown, Cochrane, St. Edwards and the Academy for Individual Excellence. Each year D.A.R.E. is taught to over 800 elementary students and over 350 middle school students.

The program is taught by Officer Sherry Hackel and Officer Kevin Carman of the Jeffersontown Police Department. Each of these officers had to attend and pass a two week course to become certified to teach in the classrooms.

The D.A.R.E. program is a curriculum designed to help young people resist the pressures of substances abuse and violence while developing strong decision making skills. The officers teach accurate information about marijuana, tobacco and alcohol with lessons dealing with the consequences of abuse, building self-esteem, providing ways to resist and indentify peer pressure and alternatives to drug use.

The D.A.R.E. Program curriculum consist of the following:

Purposes of the D.A.R.E. Program

Tobacco and You

Smoke Screen

Alcohol and You

The Real Truth

Friendship Foundations

Putting It Together

Personal Action

Role Models

Practice, Practice, Practice

Course Overview

D.A.R.E. Graduation Cermony

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COLONEL RICHARD SANDERS, CHIEF OF POLICE