2025 Iowa D.A.R.E. Officer Association Conference Registration

“DARE to make a difference”

July 20-22, 2025 Webster City, IA

Hotel: AmericInn by Wyndham Webster City, 411 Closz Drive, Webster City, IA 50595

Conference Venue: Webster City Links Golf Course, 405 N Des Moines Street, Webster City, IA 50595

                D.A.R.E. Iowa will pay for two nights of accommodations for all Iowa D.A.R.E. Officers that attend the conference. Please call the AmericInn to make your own reservations under the group block DARE Iowa. If you plan to only stay one night, please let the hotel know so we do not get charged for the unused night.

The IDOA will provide supper Sunday night for all registered Iowa DARE Officers that are present after the Sunday Banquet. Additional guests are welcome to join at $26.95 a person for a 12 oz New York Strip Dinner, Baked Potato, Vegetable, Dinner Roll & Side Salad.

Monday for lunch, will be provided to all registered Iowa Dare Officers paid by the IDOA. Additional guests are welcome to join for $12 per person, payable to IDOA. Monday’s lunch will consist of a Taco Bar (this will include soft and hard shells, along with Doritos to make walking tacos, all the fixings, rice and queso.)

Guest meal payments can be made all at the same time.

Please complete and return this registration form to Dylan Rose at 680@webstercity.com or mail to me at the Webster City Police Department- 400 Second Street, Webster City, IA 50595. *PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN 2 WEEKS PRIOR TO CONFRENCE*

Name:

Agency:

Phone Number:

I will be staying at the Americann   Yes______     No_______

I will be attending Sunday’s Banquet Yes_____ No_______

                I will have _________ guests for dinner at $26.95/person

I will be having lunch Monday afternoon Yes________   No_______

                I will have __________ guests Monday for lunch at $12/person

                PLEASE ADVISE OF ANY SPECIAL DIETARY RESTRICTIONS

Download Form HERE

Officer Dylan Rose: President’s Letter

Iowa DARE Officers

I would like to first like to thank Officer Jason Hoerner and his whole crew at the Dubuque Police Department for the hospitality and for such a great DARE Conference! The 2024 Iowa DARE Conference was second to none starting with the amazing river boat cruise to the venue to the entire agenda. The 2024 speakers provided amazing information to all officers in attendance.

With the 2024 conference in the rearview mirror, we are all gearing up to go back to school and enter a new group of DARE students looking to learn the materials we are all trained to teach. I wanted to take the time to introduce myself and provide everyone with the information about myself and the 2025 Iowa DARE Conference plans so far. I will start by introducing myself. My name is Dylan Rose, I have been with the Webster City Police Department for 7 years now and this fall I will be entering my 4^th year teaching the DARE program at the Webster City Middle School. I am honored to be the 2025 Iowa DARE Officer Association President. Outside my teaching duties I am currently assigned to daytime patrol shift here at the Webster City Police Department. I have learned so many valuable things from our last three presidents as well as all officers on the Iowa DARE Association Board as well as the Advisory Board.

In 2025, Webester City is excited to host all officers for the Iowa DARE Officers Conference! July 20-22, 2025 has been selected as the dates for the 2025 conference. Webster City has exciting things to offer due to it being possibly the most central location for all Iowa DARE Officers. Webster City provides a historic down town with many family-owned businesses open between the hours of 8am to 4pm. Webster City has a walking/biking trail spanning nearly 6 miles. Along this trail you will follow the Boone River leading you all the way out to Briggs Woods County Park. Webster City is home to two golf courses, Webster City Links Golf Course (Conference Location) and Briggs Woods Golf Course for those looking to arrive early Sunday before the conference to possibly play some golf.

As mentioned above, the Webster City Links Golf Course is pleased to host the 2025 conference. The Links has advised they would be pleased to provide a buffet Sunday night for those planning to come the opening night as well as having the grill on and menu open for ordering throughout the duration of the conference. AmericInn will be the guest hotel for officers attending the conference. A block of rooms has been set aside for officers planning to stay. Contact information for AmericInn is 515-337-2611. When registering notify them you are there for the 2025 Iowa DARE Conference. Our 2024 DARE Essay winner provided an amazing essay along with the other essays provided. Make sure when introducing the essays to your students, “hype” the reward and push your students to do their very best! Again, thank you Jason for setting the bar so high and leaving such a great impact to build from. I am very excited to tackle the task of the 2025 Iowa DARE Officer Conference. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

Officer Dylan Rose

Webster City DARE Instructor

400 Second Street

Webster City, IA 50595

680@webstercity.com

515-832-9166: Work

Hello Iowa DARE Officers,                            Past President Jason Hoerner

I know you all thought, and probably relieved, that you were done getting messages from me, but I just wanted to send out one more message to all of you now that the 2024 conference is over and I’ve had some time to reflect on all of it. First of all, I want to thank all of you that were able to attend and made the conference a huge success. I know it’s not easy to schedule the time to be away during your busy summer schedules when there are vacations to be taken, ball games, and staffing issues at work. I hope you were able to take away something from the presentations that we had to help yourself be better whether it’s at home or at work. We all have important roles to countless people out there and a lot of students that look up to us even if we don’t realize it and that’s why the relationships that we build are so vital to what we do. We have to take care of ourselves so we can be the best we can for those that need us.

I don’t know how many times that the different speakers that presented to us would thank me for having them come to our conference and were so happy and grateful for being able to speak to our group. Even as Molly and John were on their way home to Tennessee and Florida, they kept texting to thank me for the opportunity and wanted me to pass that on to all of you.

There are a lot of moving parts and pieces of the puzzle to put together when planning a conference, but I do have to say it was a great experience and I encourage you to seriously consider taking on that role at some point. I thought I already knew a lot about my community, but I learned so much more than I already knew. I made so many new contacts and learned about many different resources that I had no idea existed. I knew we had a lot of support out there, but as I was meeting with so many different people and organizations, I was amazed by the amount of support we really do have, not just law enforcement in general, but the DARE program. Many of the people that I met with shared stories of when they were growing up and how important the DARE program was to them whether it was here in Dubuque or from wherever they grew up. If it wasn’t for these people and organizations that believe in us and what we do every day, much of what we saw at the conference would not have been possible.

I couldn’t have imagined the conference turning out any better than it did, so thank you for being here and being a part of it and I look forward to seeing all of you in Webster City next year. I hope you enjoy the rest of the summer, and always, stay safe out there.

Thank you,

Jason

Iowa DARE Officers Association