The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Success Through Awareness & Resistance (STAR) Unit provides drug, gang, and violence prevention education to students throughout Los Angeles County. Since 1985, the STAR Program (formerly SANE) has been a collaborative effort between the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, educators, students, parents, and the community to offer an educational program in the classroom to prevent or reduce the use of “gateway” drugs (alcohol, tobacco and marijuana) and violence among our students. The deputies assigned to the STAR Unit work in 202 schools, within 30 school districts, teaching over 48,000 students on a monthly basis. The STAR Unit receives funding from three major sources; contract cities and schools, grants, and Asset Forfeiture.