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Instructor Training

Critical Incident Who Should Attend
Law enforcement offi cers with a minimum of two years
Stress experience with the desire to instruct a curriculum to school
age children that teaches skills of how to avoid drugs, gangs,
Management and violence.
Course Goals
Millions of school children around the world will benefi t
from D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the
highly acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they
Who Should Attend need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence.
Law Enforcement Offi cers, Telecommunicators, and D.A.R.E. is a police offi cer-led series of classroom lessons
Detention Offi cers at all levels, management and operational. that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade
how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and
Course Goal violence-free lives.The D.A.R.E. curriculum is designed to be
To enable emergency personnel to acquire the skills taught by police offi cers whose training and experience gave
necessary to recognize the stress they experience during them the background needed to answer the sophisticated
critical incidents and how to manage stress to enable the questions often posed by young students about drugs and
return to healthy functioning levels in both their professional crime. Prior to entering the D.A.R.E. program, offi cers must
and personal lives. undergo 80 hours of special training in areas such as child
development, classroom management, teaching techniques,
Course Objectives and communication skills.
The student will be able to:
➤ Explain the psychological distress emergency responders Course Objectives
can experience in response to critical incident. At the end of this training, offi cers will be able to:
➤ Examine crisis intervention as a short term helping ➤ Evaluate and understand the physical, emotional, social,
process designed to target the responder’s reaction to the and legal risks that gateway drugs have on school age
critical incident. children’s brains and bodies.
➤ Defi ne the terms critical incident stress management and ➤ Compare and contrast the normative beliefs of school
critical incident stress debriefi ng. age children as it relates to their decision-making skills.

Methodologies
This course employs lecture and discussion.

Course Requirements
➤ Lesson Plan
➤ Pen/Pencil/Paper

Course Coordinator
Susan M. Gillis

Length of Course
One day (8 hours)

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