capture our vision

To provide state-of-the-art, scientific and researched based Drug Abuse Resistance Education ( D.A.R.E.) curriculums and program to every school district in San Antonio and Bexar County; while reducing the cost of delivering  D.A.R.E. to the law enforcement offices/departments, school districts and tax-payers. 

understand our mission

The Bexar County D.A.R.E. Board of Directors are committed to be responsible, transparent, accountable and positive in its efforts to ensure that our most precious natural asset; our children can lead healthy, drug, violence and gang free lives.  As concerned citizens we want to take positive intervention and prevention measures to give our youth the factual information and awareness through  D.A.R.E. We want to help provide a positive (proven) intervention and prevention program whereby our youth can learn to make safer, healthier and more informed decisions in the future; and that will help them learn to be responsible and accountable for themselves and others. D.A.R.E. Works!

our history

History of the Bexar County Drug Abuse Resistance Education ( D.A.R.E.) program: The Bexar County D.A.R.E. program was created on January 15th, 1993 by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. It became part of the San Antonio  D.A.R.E. Board as a partner with the San Antonio Police Department  D.A.R.E. program which was began in 1988.

The San Antonio Police Department and Bexar County Sheriff’s Office worked together until 1998 when the San Antonio Police Department stopped receiving federal funding for and dropped their  D.A.R.E. program. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office continued to expand the  D.A.R.E. Program covering the schools that lost their program when SAPD dropped  D.A.R.E. and the San Antonio D.A.R.E. Board of Directors continued to oversee and administer the program.

The San Antonio  D.A.R.E. Board of Directors created “Project Partnership” in May 2003. This new project partnership concept allowed for any law enforcement agency within Bexar County to receive funding support to sustain training and providing  D.A.R.E. certified officers to service even more schools.  D.A.R.E. America recognized the Bexar County  D.A.R.E. Board and its “Project Partnership” as having a model community-based program in August 2005 at the International  D.A.R.E. Officers Conference held in San Antonio and again in 2008.

The San Antonio  D.A.R.E. Board became the Bexar County  D.A.R.E. Board of Directors a recognized 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization in July 2005. It has received numerous awards including the F.B.I. Directors Leadership Award and several D.E.A. Awards for having a superb proactive community-based drug prevention & intervention program through its  D.A.R.E. Program.

Some agencies due to consistent budget/funding cuts had to divert their officers to patrol. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office under Interim Sheriff Roland Tafolla dropped the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office  D.A.R.E. Unit in October 2007; diverting the  D.A.R.E. Officers to patrol deputies.

Like the  D.A.R.E. Program,  D.A.R.E. America, and the local program  D.A.R.E. has stood the test of time undergoing major changes to keep a current and viable as a premiere drug intervention and prevention program; the Bexar County  D.A.R.E. program continues to serve the educational awareness needs of our students across Bexar County.  D.A.R.E. is the oldest and longest standing (Drug Education & Prevention) program in the country and Bexar County today. Where are the other programs that were better than  D.A.R.E. they are no longer with us.