Free Summer Day Program for Fifth Graders

The Essex County Summer Day Program (formerly known as D.A.R.E. Camp) will allow youth, police and peer leaders to spend the entire week together attending educational workshops and participating in team-building activities.  Educational workshops include lessons in violence prevention, environmental awareness, decision-making and gang resistance.  Afternoon activities consist of cooperative games and educational presentations.  To develop outside interests as an alternative to drugs and alcohol, we will be including environmental and cultural events.  A graduation ceremony will be held on Friday.

The Essex County Summer Day Program will be held during the weeks of July 29 - Aug. 2 and Aug. 5 – Aug. 9 at the Witchcraft Heights Elementary School in Salem from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The program is free and will include five full days of fun and learning.

It is open to boys and girls entering the fifth grade in the fall.

Program Enrollment Includes:

• ·       Field Trips
• ·       T-shirts
• ·       Lunch
• ·       Learning Opportunities with Police Officers
• ·       Arts and Crafts
• ·       Sports and Games
• ·       Graduation Ceremony
• ·       Transportation may be provided from the police station in your city or town to the Summer Day Program

This is a collaborative project between the Office of the Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett and the following Police Departments:

Danvers · Lynn · Marblehead · Peabody · Salem · Salem State College

Saugus · Swampscott

For more information call Marblehead police officer Michael Roads at 781-631-1212

Information for this article was submitted by Marblehead police.