TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite – Department of Education (DepEd) officials and Schools Division personnel here have been directed to attend a full-day orientation of the Preventive Drug Education Program on February 26.
Cavite Schools Division Superintendent officer-in-charge Cherry Lou D. Mesa issued the directive through DepEd Division Memorandum No. 051, dated Wednesday.
The activity, to be held at the Bulwagang Tanglaw of the Division office from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,“will serve as a rollout activity as the province reiterates its support for strengthening the national drug education program in schools,” de Mesa said.
The program, implemented through DepEd’s Bureau of Learner Support Services, will have the school heads fully responsible for its effective implementation, hence the need to engage them in a full-day orientation.
The forum will prepare personnel to adhere to the strict standards promoting the anti-drug advocacies and activities set in schools and in workplaces.
The DepEd initiative adheres to Section 43 of Article IV of Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
The law provides that “instructions on drug abuse and prevention and control shall be integrated in the elementary, secondary and tertiary curricula of all public and private schools”.
This covers schools in general, as well as technical, vocational or agro-industrial and non-formal, informal, and indigenous learning systems. (PNA)
