Community Psychology: DARE

Running Head : COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY (DARE

Community Psychology (DARE

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Community Psychology (Chapter 9

On page 271 we have listed the several principles of effectiveness Using the discussion of the DARE project demonstrate how those steps helped increase the effectiveness of DARE

The first step helped increase the effectiveness of DARE by tailoring the project 's activities to the types and severity of drug and violence problems in a given community . Authorities would first analyze what are the most abused substances , how are these availed

and how many people are drug dependents . In the case of violence problems , the factors that they study are the most common types of hostilities , how often do these take place and the number of victims . As soon as they have these important data , they would execute activities that are capable of solving the problems that they have discovered

The second step helped increase the effectiveness of DARE by making information gathering and dissemination faster and more efficient Community representatives know the locality that they are representing very well . Thus , they could provide valuable inputs to the planning of goals that are geared towards a specific locality and the activities that are necessary to attain these goals . Furthermore , community representatives have more time to communicate with their constituents as well as learn how to communicate with them . In the context of DARE the cooperation of community representatives with law-enforcement officials would increase the possibility of creating community-specific programs that would effectively eliminate drug...