The program offers strategies to help the kids stay away from these pressures that many youths experience in their upbringing. Some of the results that D.A.RE. tries to accomplish or focus on with youths are self-esteem, decision-making, conflict resolution, sense of purpose, and development of social competence, communication skills, and also alternate activities to drug abuse such as sports or other destructive programs equilivant to D.A.R.E. The DARE program is a very renowned and widely respected program that is organized and taught by trained law officials who put together seventeen 45 to 60 minute lessons that are integrated into other instruction by the teacher of that class. DARE focuses heavily on the 5 and 6 grade where one specially trained officer is assigned to a school one day for a trimester. During the presentation the classroom teacher holds an important role in managing the classroom while the DARE representative is conducting the lesson, which includes great volunteer participation. The DARE program can be taught as individual lessons or can be incorporated in school courses such as language arts, health, social studies, science, and other appropriate subjects dealing with drug use. .
One of the many areas that DARE is present is the city of San Antonio and Bexar County where DARE is making a big impact on middle and high school students. Bexar County Sheriff Ralph Lopez stated, " I believe DARE to be a viable asset in our efforts to reduce juvenile and adult drug related and violent crimes." In the 2002-2003 school year in Bexar County, DARE was exposed to 8,196 5th grade students and 34,388 kindergarten through 4th grade students in 77 elementary schools and in 10 out of 12 school districts. For the 2003-2004 school year the DARE Program present in Bexar will add three new elementary schools making the total one-hundred to its already existing program in addition to sixteen middle/junior high schools.