Although it is true that SOME studies have shown DARE to be ineffective, not all have. And what is key for me, as an anthropologist who works with immigrant women, is that these Latina women all felt the DARE program had been quite effective in their communities, and that the Latino and Latina teens had been positively impacted by it. I am always very keen to listen to voices of the minority communities when helping to design programs - I think it is vital that these programs spring from the ideas that blossom in those communities, rather than in academia or in well-meaning "mainstream" communities in the US.
Suzanne Baker Anthropologist Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Omaha, NE USA At 08:54 1/29/02 -0500, Cheryl Soehl wrote: >Unfortunately, studies have shown the the programs you mention are >actually pretty ineffective in influencing drug-taking behavior. That >does not mean that we shouldn't try to do the education piece of violence >prevention. It just means that it's important to study what works before >launching a big expensive program that won't reduce the target behavior. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction." (Mahatma Gandhi, 20 July 1925) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
