Pubdate: Mon, 25 Dec 2006
Source: Springfield News Sun (OH)
Copyright: 2006 Cox Newspapers, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3490
Author: Natalie Morales, Staff Writer
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/dare.htm (D.A.R.E.)

DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE D.A.R.E. FUNDING

State funding will keep local D.A.R.E. programs running  strong 
through the school year.

The Clark County Sheriff's Office and the Springfield  Police 
Division collectively received almost $70,000  from the Ohio Attorney 
General's Office to support the  program, which strives to educate 
students about drug  abuse and resistance.

The sheriff's office received $34,862 to pay for half  the salaries 
of its two D.A.R.E. officers for the time  they teach the program 
during the 2006-07 school year.

The instructors, Deputies Brent Goff and Suzanne  Waughtel, also 
teach about Internet safety, anger  management and the "choking 
game," during which kids  try to get a high by depriving themselves of oxygen.

Springfield police received $34,790 - $2,130 of which  carried over 
from unused grant money from last school  year, Capt. David Czyzak said.

Officers Natheon Ashcraft, Jimmy Cosby and Sandy Fent  teach the city program.

The carryover comes from any sick or vacation days  taken by the 
D.A.R.E. officers during the school year,  he said. The department 
must report these hours, during  which the grant money could not have 
been used.

The grant money also provides funding for books used in  the city's 
fifth- and seventh-grade programs, Czyzak  said.