Programs for Youth
Drug Education For Youth (DEFY) Mission
The DEFY mission-Is a catalyst for increasing community participation and commitment to youth. DEFY produces 10-12 year old graduates who have character, leadership, and confidence to engage in positive, healthy lifestyles as drug-free citizens. DEFY is a preemptive prevention program and a catalyst for increasing community participation and commitment to youth. DEFY works with 9- to 12-year-olds and helps them develop character, leadership, and confidence to engage in positive, healthy lifestyles as drug-free citizens. DEFY is a unique, comprehensive, and multiphased 1-year program that strengthens protective factors and reduces risk factors that scientific research has directly linked to adolescent alcohol and drug abuse, school failure, delinquency, and violence. It focuses on 9- to 12-year-old youth because the primary exposure to high-risk behaviors occurs during the middle school years, grades 7 to 9 and ages 11 to 14. To prevent high-risk behavior in the 11 to 14 age bracket, DEFY targets youth who are 9 to 12.
Officer Doug Bagwell and Detective Kathy Schley are the trained DEFY camp and youth mentoring coordinators. For DEFY Camp 2007, we had 25 kids that attended our five day summer camp at Full Blast.
