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D. A. R A Decision Making Model

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I`m going to be talking about the D.A.R.E. program and what it's taught kids like me. First, let me tell you what D.A.R.E. stands for. D.A.R.E. is an acronyn that represents Drug Abuse Resistance Educataion. Did you know that most teens don’t drink alchohol? This is just 1 of the many facts that I learned in D.A.R.E. One of the first things Officer Frazier (our instructor) taught us was you have to be 21 or older to obtain alchohol and 18 (19 in some states) or older to use tobacco. One of my personal experiences with drugs is at a baseball game when I was sitting in a chair watching the ballgame and I smelt ciggaratte smoke. So I moved to a different place. I personally really DISLIKE the smell of tobacco. Which leads me into the topic of …show more content…

Decision-Making Model is a plan on how to solve your problems including drugs, alchohol, relationships etc. D.A.R.E. stands for Define Assess Respond Evaluate in this plan. Let me tell you how to use the D.A.R.E. Decision-Making Model. When you Define you describe the problem, challenge, or opportunity. Assess is when you ask yourself "what are your choices?" When Responding you make a choice. Use the facts and information you have collected. Last, which is Evaluate you review your decision. Did you make a good choice? These are the steps when you have problems you want to solve. If you want to practice using the D.A.R.E. Decision-Making Model just describe yourself a situation and go through …show more content…

The topics are bullying and peer pressure. You may wonder how these relate to each other, well let me tell you. Say your friend invites you over to your house and they tell you that they found a ciggerate in their yard and want to see how you use it. Think about the problem, if you say no your friends may not like you anymore, but if you say yes you are doing something you know is wrong and may lead to other problems and punnishment. You have to pick the best solution to the problem. In this case, saying no would be the best answer because you know it is not the right thing to do and if your friends want to do that and they don’t like you because you say no then they were not good friends anyways. Now to get into the bullying. After you say no they start saying mean things about you to other people, this is bullying. One night you are on your computer and you get a message from them and they said that you were dumb and that no one likes you, this is cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is when someone is bullying you over the internet or online. When you report bullying you have to think about the five W's. The five W's are Who, What, When, Where, Why. Make up statements including each of W's when reporting a

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