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2 PROCLAMATION Desianating May 18, 1993 as D.A.R.E. Day in Orange County WHEREAS D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a seventeen-week program that teaches young people why and how to resist pressure to experiment with cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs; WHEREAS D.A.R.E. targets young people when they are most vulnerable to the tremendous peer pressure they encounter, and teaches the skills needed to make positive decisions and to resist engaging in negative behavior; WHEREAS D.A.R.E. is taught in school systems in all 50 states and several foreign countries; WHEREAS the D.A.R.E. program is taught in the classroom by uniformed, experienced law enforcement officers with direct experience in cases involving criminal activities and ruined lives caused by substance abuse; WHEREAS each D.A.R.E. officer completes special training including teaching techniques, development of self-esteem, and child development; WHEREAS, the D.A.R.E. curriculum, developed in 1983 by the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Unified School District, and since then adopted by the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction and the North Carolina Department of Justice helps students understand self image, and handle stress without using drugs and to learn decision-making skills by evaluating the consequences of the choices available to them; WHEREAS the D.A.R.E. Program, in existence in the Orange County School System for five years, has delivered the semester- long course to over 2,000 sixth graders and an abbreviated course to over 7,500 elementary school students with positive results, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED by the Orange County Board of Commissioners that May 18, 1993 be designated as "D.A.R.E. Day in Orange County." This the 3rd day of May, 1993. Moses Carey, Jr. , Chair Board of Commissioners