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empowerment

n.

1. the promotion of the skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to take greater control of one’s life. In psychotherapy, the process involves helping clients become more active in meeting their needs and fulfilling their desires and aims to provide them with a sense of achievement and realization of their own abilities and ambitions. See also enabling.

2. the delegation of increased decision-making powers to individuals or groups in a society or organization. —empower vb.

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November 6th 2024

D.A.R.E.

D.A.R.E.

acronym for Drug Abuse Resistance Education: a program through which police officers teach kindergarten through 12th grade students how to say no to drugs, including how to defend against peer pressure to use drugs.