COUNTYWIDE : Firm Provides Grant for Drug Education
A drug-education class for Conejo Valley sixth-graders has received a $3,200 grant from the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. to help underwrite the program next year.
The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (DARE), whose $180,000 annual budget is funded largely by the city of Thousand Oaks and the Conejo Valley Unified School District, encourages schoolchildren to discuss the benefits of avoiding drugs.
DARE is taught by two Thousand Oaks Police Department officers who meet during the school year with every sixth-grade class in Conejo Valley public and private schools.
“We send them off hopefully better able to resist the peer pressures that get these kids into drugs,” Officer Paul Kaspar said.
The company, which has a manufacturing plant in Camarillo, offered financial support on the recommendation of an employee from Thousand Oaks whose child participated in the DARE classes.
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