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The Minnesota DARE PLUS Project: Creating Community Partnerships to Prevent Drug Use and Violence
Author(s) -
Perry Cheryl L.,
Komro Kelli A.,
VeblenMortenson Sara,
Bosma Linda,
Munson Karen,
Stigler Melissa,
Lytle Leslie A.,
Forster Jean L.,
Welles Seth L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2000.tb06451.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , drug education , medical education , extant taxon , intervention (counseling) , conceptualization , poison control , suicide prevention , substance abuse , program evaluation , randomized controlled trial , medicine , drug prevention , psychology , pedagogy , nursing , political science , environmental health , psychiatry , surgery , public administration , evolutionary biology , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
The research community has criticized Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) because the extant literature indicates a lack of evidence that the elementary school program prevents drug use. Yet D.A.R.E. continues to be the most widely implemented drug use prevention program in the United States and has considerable community support. To date, the junior high D.A.R.E. program has not been evaluated. The Minnesota DARE PLUS Project is a randomized trial of 24 schools and communities. During 1999–2001, students in eight schools will receive the junior high D.A.R.E. curriculum in 7th grade; eight schools also will receive the curriculum as well as additional parent involvement, peer leadership, and community components in the 7th and 8th grades; and eight schools will serve as controls. This article describes the background and conceptualization, the curriculum and additional intervention components, and the evaluation methods of the DARE PLUS Project.