DARE Active

DARE in the Community (‘DARE Active’)

DARE Active is our newly developed community resource, designed to complement the DARE Primary curriculum and to help young people deal with the challenges they face.   Its principle themes are Responsibility, Achievement and Aspiration. The programme takes a fresh approach and introduces the ‘Six Keys to Success’ developed by the British Athletes Commission as an integral part of the curriculum and complementary to the DARE decision making model. The young people are encouraged to assess themselves on an ongoing basis against a set of criteria.

DARE Active is principally led by DARE Champions, members of the community (professional and non professional) who are actively involved in teaching, training, supporting or coaching young people and are trained and licensed by DARE UK  to deliver the  resource. DARE Active consists of six sessions which can be delivered as an six week programme or stand alone (a modular approach). It includes an optional celebration of achievement where guests can be invited to share the celebration or speak in a role model capacity. This opportunity lends itself to the local Policing teams attending and reinforcing some of the key messages. The sessions comprise:

1. Team Active Challenge
2. Let's get Started - An Introduction to DARE Active
3. The Six Keys to Success
4. A Group or a Team?
5. Attempting a New Challenge
6. Review and Self Assessment

DARE Active enables students to:

• Develop key life skills to stay safe,  healthy and to make a positive contribution within society
• Set goals with success criteria for their development
• Review and assess their performance
• Raise their self-esteem and develop the skills to maximise their life opportunities
• Become inspired and motivated, to achieve their goals
• Be disciplined and take responsibility for their own actions
• Develop support networks
• Make wise choices about health, social and moral dilemmas

Resources and Cost

Each student is provided with an up to date DARE Active workbook for use during the course and facilitators are provided with Session Guides for course delivery.  The cost  of each workbook is £5 per workbook.

How to Start Up DARE Active

DARE UK will provide training for DARE Champions (typically between 16 hours and 40 hours dependent upon existing qualifications, experience and skills), up to date resources and ongoing support.