The workbook provides community leaders, educators, and youth service providers with an urban-based model designed to combat and prevent violence in and around schools and communities. The curriculum is based on hundreds of hours of observation of urban youth in schools and other environments as well as countless discussions with urban youth and parents who have lost children to violence.

The curriculum serves as a tool to help urban African American males view violence from a different perspective. It provides "intense" life skill programming with sessions ranging from dealing with and decision making to handling weapons found in the community.

The curriculum helps youth understand the relationship between the self-destructive behaviors they exhibit and the consequences of their actions. Implementing the curriculum teaches youth the necessary resiliency skills to survive in urban centers throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Further, the Dare To Be King Model uses realistic approaches to challenge the mindset, values and life styles which contribute to violence among males. The model has specifically been designed to address the growing needs of African American males in urban communities. The disproportionate numbers of African American male juveniles arrested for violent crimes as well as the number killed and/or wounded have created a national epidemic.