The Marinette County Sheriff’s Office is bringing back the D.A.R.E program

The Marinette County Sheriff’s Office is excited to announce that they will be bringing back the D.A.R.E program after several months of working to implement it once again. D.A.R.E., or Drug Abuse Resistance Education, is a program designed to partner local law enforcement and area school districts to teach elementary students that every choice they make has consequences. The D.A.R.E. program focuses on the use of controlled substances, gangs, and violent behavior. The sheriff’s office’s new D.A.R.E Officer, Deputy Ryan Nemetz, will soon complete a 2-week training course and then begin teaching the D.A.R.E program at the Wausaukee, Pembine, and Goodman schools. The curriculum taught today is very different from the D.A.R.E. curriculum from 30 years ago. Today’s program now teaches students to recognize that every choice they make has consequences. D.A.R.E. officers teach students that those consequences may be positive or negative depending on the choice they make in each situation. We would like to thank our partners at the Marinette County Department of Human Services and each of the school districts for their help over the past months to make this happen.