To bring the D.A.R.E. Dance Program full-circle, D.A.R.E. funds a limited number of scholarships to students wishing to continue dance education at a local studio in their city.

Joy of Motion Dance Center in Washington D.C. has signed on as a scholarship site for D.C. area students who undergo the D.A.R.E. dance program.

JOM has run scholarship programs for five years in a row now. In addition, The Arlington Center for Dance has sponsored ten individual D.A.R.E. students over two years in studio's summer program, and CityDance Ensemble is also offering DARE Dance students classes at the new CityDance Center at Strathmore.

Studios that offered scholarships beginning as early as 2000 include The Henry Street Settlement, Ballet Hispanico and the Harlem Center for the Arts in New York City, The Koresh Studio in Philadelphia, Experimental Dance Concepts in Baltimore, More than Steps and Dance Dimensions in Los Angeles and the Maryland Hall in Annapolis and Hubbard Street Dance in Chicago. Scholarships may come in the form of a private class offered to D.A.R.E. dance students or in funding for class opportunity in a children’s program.

As the program develops, D.A.R.E. will determine how much interest there is in the scholarship program, and how students can best benefit from dance long-term.

The DARE Dance Program is committed to community service and volunteer programs, as well as a council for parents’ involvement. Students who have been through the DARE Dance Program previously and have been involved in a scholarship program, have been asked to go back to their old schools or previous grade to assist with student teaching. We are also working with other teen artists in arts schools, such as the Broadneck Dance Company, and/or teen companies to student teach with the professional teachers out in the DARE schools.

 Community Service, Parents’ Council, Volunteer Programs and Training:

A volunteer program has been established both for classroom as well as for administrative help for the program. Volunteers are currently being coordinated in the several cities hosting the D.A.R.E. Dance Program.

The DARE Dance Program initially established a Parents’ Council in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas to gain parental knowledge on how to better the program, what their children are doing with their free time and what types of music their children are listening to.

The Parents' Council has now expanded on a national level through parent surveys and letters.