The Concordia Police Department is proud to offer the D.A.R.E. program to our local schools. D.A.R.E. is taught by uniformed police officers in a classroom setting.

The core D.A.R.E. curriculum is a 10-week program that teaches life skills, and is delivered to 5th grade students in attendance at both private and public schools within Concordia. Some of the topics covered in the core program include Consequences, Resisting Peer Pressure, Building Self Esteem, Managing Stress, Solving Disagreements Without Violence and Decision Making Skills. The middle school D.A.R.E. curriculum is a ten-session program taught at the 7th grade level. It continues to build upon the core program, but is geared to the situations and pressures that older students face.

The Concordia Police Department’s D.A.R.E. Instructor is Officer Ken Landes. Officer Landes teaches the core Elementary program and the Middle School program.

The core Elementary program ends with a graduation ceremony to honor the students’ achievements. Every May the D.A.R.E. students from Concordia and the surrounding communities attend Law Enforcement Day in Higginsville. Beginning in May 2009, the Police Department began hosting the D.A.R.E.-2-Fish kids fishing clinic at Concordia City Lake.

Contact your D.A.R.E. Officer at 660-463-2140 or visit www.dare.com for more information.