Pubdate: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 Source: Sun St. Kitts and Nevis (Antigua) Copyright: 2006 SUN Printing & Publishing LTD Contact: http://sunstkitts.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4295 OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF NEW DARE CURRICULUM COMING SOON Although the new and revised Drug Awareness Resistance Education (DARE) Curriculum has been implemented in the primary and secondary schools around the Federation, its official launch is not scheduled to take place until later this month. The revised curriculum was introduced to prospective and existing DARE officers from St. Kitts/Nevis and other countries of the OECS some two weeks ago. These officers underwent two weeks of training in St. Kitts. The new curriculum was to have been launched last Thursday however, it has to be postponed and Local DARE Officer Matthew McGuire explained that the launch should be held in the near future. "We would have liked to have a press conference but it was not convenient and the media did not show up. So we thought it best to forego that but hopefully during the week of the 23rd, we, locally, will be officially launching the new curriculum by way of a press conference." The revised curriculum has been described as being "somewhat better" than the previous one because the DARE teachers play a more facilitative role whereas with the previous curriculum, the DARE teacher provided most of the information. Also the revised curriculum, as opposed to the former, is taught over a shorter period of time. - --- MAP posted-by: Elaine