Educational Sponsorships

 

The Hanover Park Lions Club is a sponsor of the Hanover Park Police Department's DARE program which is conducted in several area elementary schools. DARE stands for Drug Awareness and Resistance Education.

Our club also sponsors the Lions-Quest Skills for Growing and the Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence programs, life-skills curricula now taught in more than 26,000 schools in 32 countries.

Through Lions-Quest Skills for Growing, Skills for Adolescence and Skills for Action programs, elementary, middle school and high school students are learning these important skills:

  • Making wise decisions
  • Communicating effectively
  • Setting goals
  • Accepting responsibility
  • Life and citizenship skills
  • Building self-confidence
  • Developing self-discipline
  • Solving problems
  • Resisting negative influences
  • Violence prevention/conflict resolution