The Georgia D.A.R.E. Officer's Association wishes to congratulate it's members for donating blood to the 1st Annual G.D.O.A. Blood Drive. We were able to donate 18 units of blood to the Blood Assurance Blood Bank. President Sgt. Jim Griffin was greatly appreciative to all of the members who donated blood. Hopefully next year we will have more officer's to donate to this worthy cause.
The Atlanta Braves and the Georgia D.A.R.E. Officer's Association have teamed up to host the 1st Annual Georgia D.A.R.E. Officer's Association Night at Turner Field! The event will be held on Saturday, September 6th for the 7:10 p.m. game versus the Washington Nationals.
Atlanta Braves representatives will be present at the 2008 G.D.O.A. Conference on July 15 to give further details regarding the ticket fundraising efforts of the event. Tickets will be sold for $6.00 and $3.00 will go back to G.D.O.A. If you wish to pre-purchase tickets for your classrooms - please bring cash, check or money orders to the luncheon.
The Braves representatives will have an autographed Jeff Grancoeur photograph for the first 25 officers to pre-purchase 25 tickets or more.
We look forward to seeing everyone on July 15th.
Go Braves!
Letter from President Sgt. Jim Griffin,
To all fellow G.D.O.A. Members, the time has finally arrived for your new web site to be introduced, bringing us into the 21st Century.
I would like to encourage all members to keep in touch by way of the G.D.O.A. web site, as news will be in the fore front of this site to give you the latest information.
Further I would like to congratulate our web master, Sgt. Bob Lauf for his hard work and dedication for making this new web site a reality.
Remember this web site is there for you, so please remember to forward any D.A.R.E. points of interest or pictures from your community. As we climb to new heights, remember your attitude attributes to your altitude.
Sincerely,
Sgt. Jim Griffin President
Treasurer Dana Cooper's New Phone Number.
Treasurer Dana Cooper now has a new phone number if you should need to get in contact with her regarding the 2008 State Conference and this number is 912-293-2002. This number is effective on 06-02-2008. Thank You for your patience in this matter especially during registration time for the State Conference.
2008 GEORGIA DOT CLASS.
The Georgia D.A.R.E. Training Center would like to announce the dates for the 2008 Georgia D.O.T. Class which will be held from December 1st through December 12th, 2008. The DOT Class will be held at Ft. Stewart, GA.. And just as a reminder you will need to report in on November 30th. 2008.
2009 GEORGIA STATE CONFERENCE.
President Jim Griffin wishes to announce and congratulate that Ft. Stewart, Georgia will be the hosting agency for the 2009 Georgia State D.A.R.E. Conference. The dates for the 2009 State Conference will be announced at a later date. We have been told that this will be the best State Conference that we have every had. Good luck and we can't wait for 2009 to get here.
Letter from President Sgt. Jim Griffin,
To all G.D.O.A. members, as all of us know we D.A.R.E. to care! Therefore we have scheduled a blood drive in Dalton this year from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. and a food drive for the Red Cross on Monday at the Convention Center. Please be ready to give, and I will be first in line for this worthy cause. Lets let everyone know we D.A.R.E. to care.
Sincerely,
Sgt. Jim Griffin President
Georgia D.A.R.E. Officer's at State Capitol for Georiga D.A.R.E. Day Proclamation
The Georgia D.A.R.E. Officer's Association is proud to announce that Governor Sonny Perdue signed a proclamation, proclaiming April 10, 2008 as D.A.R.E. Day in Georgia and he called upon the good citizens of Georgia to observe this day with appropriate activities.
The Drug Abuse Resistant Education (D.A.R.E.) Program teaches young people ways to resist peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, and joining gangs. D.A.R.E. reaches young people when they are most vulnerable to peer pressure and teaches the skills necessary to make positive decisions and avoid negative behaviors; and
D.A.R.E. is taught in more than seventy-five percent of our nation's school districts and more than forty-three countries around the world. Thousands of Elementary and Middle school students are positively impacted by D.A.R.E. in Georgia classrooms each year; and
The D.A.R.E. curriculum helps students recognize and successfully evaluate risk-taking behaviors, resist gang pressure, apply effective decision-making skills, and evaluate the consequences of the choices available to them; and
The D.A.R.E. program has achieved outstanding success teaching positive and effective approaches to some of the most difficult problems facing our young people today - substance abuse, violence, and gangs; and
On Georgia D.A.R.E. Day, we honor the officers who help Georgia's youth become productive citizens by avoiding the dangers of substance abuse and violence.
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